Nobody put the crack into the pipe,
Nobody made you smoke off your life.
You thought that you could do dope and still stay cool?
Fool…you played yourself.
Ice-T, “You Played Yourself,” The Iceberg: Freedom of Speech…Just Watch What You Say, 1989
Classic rap lyrics about life, love, money and more.
Nobody put the crack into the pipe,
Nobody made you smoke off your life.
You thought that you could do dope and still stay cool?
Fool…you played yourself.
6’n the mornin’ police at my door,
Fresh Adidas squeak across the bathroom floor.
Out the back window I make a escape,
Don’t even get a chance to grab my old school tape…
My life is violent but violence is life,
Peace is a dream, reality is a knife.
I don’t need your assistance, social persistence.
Any problem I got, I just put my fist in.
I got nothin’ to lose, much to gain–
In my brain, I got a capitalist migraine.