[00:00.48]Man, the scene was so thick
[00:08.91]Lowriders, '77 Sevilles, El Dogs
[00:13.31]Nothing but them 'Lacs
[00:15.49]All the players, all the hustlers
[00:18.94]I'm talking bout a black man heaven here, nahmsayin, yeah
[00:24.53]It's beginning to look a lot like, what? Follow my every step
[00:27.60]Take notes on how I crept, I's bout to go in depth
[00:30.29]This is the way I creep my season, here's my ghetto rep
[00:32.56]I kept, to say the least no, no it can't cease
[00:35.35]So I begin to piece my two and two together
[00:37.40]Gots no snowy weather, have to find something to do better bet
[00:39.97]I said subtract, so shut up that, nonsense about some silent night
[00:44.06]I gots it crunk, if it ain't real, ain't right
[00:45.85]I'm like no matter what the season
[00:47.26]Forever chill with Smith
[00:48.69]I sip my fifth, I chill with Wesson, got my reasons
[00:51.38]So tell me what did you expect
[00:52.56]You thought I'd break my neck, to help y'all deck the halls
[00:55.41]Oh naw, I got other means of celebrating
[00:57.82]I'm getting blizzard at HoJo, I got that hoochie waiting
[01:00.55]I made it through another year can't ask for nothing much more
[01:03.20]It's OutKast for the books I thought you knew so now you know
[01:05.84]Let's go
[01:06.58]All the players came from far and wide
[01:10.66]Wearing afros and braids, kicking them gangsta rides
[01:15.48]Now I'm here to tell you there's a better day
[01:20.46]When the player's ball is happening, all day ery'day
[01:25.91]Halle-lu-jah, halle-lu-jah
[01:28.98]Y'know I do some things more different than I used to
[01:31.65]'Cause I'm a player, doing what the players do
[01:34.20]The package store was closed, okay my day is ruined
[01:36.82]This is ridiculous, I'm getting serious, I'm getting curious
[01:39.53]'Cause the house is smelling stank, the chitlins old as *****es
[01:41.86]I made no wishes cause I'm mobbing folk *****s in the back
[01:44.18]Getting tipsy off the nog and high as hell off the contact smoke
[01:47.11]They having a smoke out in my back seat
[01:49.49]They passing herb rewinding verses 'cause it's in the air
[01:52.09]I hit the parks, I hit the cuts, I'm hitting switches
[01:55.05]'Cause I'm switching from side to side looking for hoes and snitches
[01:57.28]I'm wide open on the freeway, my pager broke my vibe
[02:00.18]'Cause a junkie is a junkie three-sixty-five
[02:02.55]It's just another day of work to me the spirit just ain't in me
[02:04.96]Grab my pistol and my ounce see what them junkies gotta give me
[02:07.54]'Cause it's like that, yeah
[02:09.30]Forever pimpin', never slippin', that's how it is
[02:12.88]All the players came from far and wide
[02:17.55]Wearing afros and braids, kicking them gangsta rides
[02:22.62]Now I'm here to tell you there's a better day
[02:27.65]When the player's ball is happening, all day ery'day
[02:33.11]Ain't no chimneys in the ghetto so I won't be hanging my socks on no chimney
[02:36.18]I'm fit as a tick, fix me a plate, I got the remedy
[02:39.21]Some greens and that ham, not
[02:41.22]Don't need no ham hocks, don't play me like I'm smoking rocks
[02:43.92]I got the munchies, we got the Mary Jane in the Dungeon
[02:46.59]Just to let you *****s know in '93, that's how we coming
[02:49.19]So ho ho hoes, check my king-ass 'fro
[02:51.60]The gin and juice has got me tipsy so, um...
[02:54.63]It goes, give me ten, and I'll serve you then, now we bend
[02:56.58]The corner in my Cadillac
[02:57.59]My heart does not go pitty-pat for no rat
[02:59.64]I'm leaning back, my elbow's out the window
[03:01.80]Coke, rum and indo fills my body, where's the party?
[03:04.61]We roll deep, we dip to Underground, see a lot of hoes around
[03:07.94]I spit my game while waiting countdown
[03:10.11]A five, fo', a three, two, here comes the one
[03:12.23]A new year has begun, P-Funk, spark another one..
[03:14.85]All the players came from far and wide
[03:19.47]Wearing afros and braids, kicking them gangsta rides
[03:24.73]Now I'm here to tell you there's a better day
[03:29.67]When the player's ball is happening, all day ery'day
[03:34.98]Here's a little something for the players out there hustling
[03:39.05]Getting down for theirs
[03:41.85]From East Point, College Park, Decatur, Da 'Briar
[03:48.24]You know, *****s worldwide
[03:51.53]Down, for theirs
[03:56.32]All the players came from far and wide
[04:00.84]Wearing afros and braids, kicking them gangsta rides
[04:05.91]Now I'm here to tell you there's a better day
[04:11.15]When the player's ball is happening, all day ery'day
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