Chords for De La Soul - Stakes Is High (With Intro) (Official Music Video) [HD]

_ Rap in the 90s.
It's creative.
It's candid.
It's controversial
But how much does the music dictate real life and how much does real life dictate the music?
Today [Fm] on the show we have rappers de la soul [D#] to discuss the many ways
Keep [G] it real
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[D] I [Cm] _ Gets down _
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They should be a hip-hop
You what it's all about skin not considered equal a meteor has more right than my people who be wasting time
Even who they've hated that's why the native tongue has officially been [C#] reinstated
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[D] I'm [Cm] sick.
Hi. _ _
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[Gm] It's about love
Love love and to love mad sex love and to love ones love the opposite love for fame and [C#] wealth
Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself [G] kid
Living in the maze of the man-made maze where every aspect is vivid
These brothers no longer talk shit
And yo, these niggas never about to give it to you [Em] 24 7 on the [A] microphone plug one translate
So [C#] no offense to a player, but yo, I don't [Cm] play
Let's [C#] take the fence walk you got to [Cm] be that way JD dub show you love what you got [C#] say
I say Jesus make you think is that a high [D] regard and niggas die for it [Cm] nowadays?
_ And then fantasies and not
[F] [C#] Reality sometimes is [G#] hard people try to snap the credit but [Cm] can't claim the card showing out in videos saying they co [C#]-star
See shit like that'll make your mama cry [D] better watch the way the strength of the [Cm] stakes is high
You know the stakes is high
[C#] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ [D] Stakes
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High High
Public is [A#m] against the [G#] Lord his [A#] love don't get you through [Cm] life
No [D] more soon, you know how you son how you getting in and who the [C#] man holding?
Yo, how was the skins and how [F] high your way up?
Huh?
I heard you caught a body seem like every man and woman share the life of John got a no [C#] organized
It's the crimes with life [N] and zon taking the big route and [G] niggas no doubt better than [Cm] they know they daughters than they [Fm] son
[F#] Yo people go to [N] pain and still don't gain positive
Contact just like my main man who got others cleaning up his physical influence.
It's mine got just that
He got the non-entitlement neighborhoods and that hood [G] nobody neighbors just animals
So I've been with that animal [F#] behavior under eye who's [C#] driving from dark to light [Cm] sky
[D] Experimenting needle [Cm] skin connect.
No wonder where we live is called the [F] projects when the [C#] mistakes
Damn, so try to do anything
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[D] _ _ [Cm] _ Even _ [A#] die for the cash, but it
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