The Deity Complex ft. De La Soul - “Stakes Is High (Villainy RMX)”
[Emcee(s): Posdnuos and Trugoy the Dove]
[Producer(s): Supreme Scientist 7 (of The Deity Complex)]

[Hook: Posdnuos]
Stakes is high
You know them stakes is high when we talking ‘bout the…
Stakes is high
You know them stakes is high. We talking ‘bout the…
Stakes is high
You know them stakes is high

[Verse 1: Posdnuos]
The Insta-
-matic focal point bringing damage to your boroughs, we’re some
Brothers from the East with them beats that be thorough
Got the solar gravitation, so I’m bound to pull it
I gets down like brothers are found ducking from bullets
Gun control means using both hands in
My land, where it’s all about the cautious living
Migrating to a higher form of consequence, compliments
Of struggling—that shouldn’t be notable
Man, every word I say should be a hip hop quotable

[Verse 2: Trugoy the Dove]
I’m sick
Of bitches shaking asses, I’m sick of talking ‘bout blunts
Sick of Versace glasses, sick of slang, sick of half-ass
Awards shows, sick of name-brand clothes
Sick of R&B bitches over bullshit tracks
Cocaine and crack, which brings sickness to blacks
Sick of swoll’ head rappers with their sickening raps
Clappers and gats making the whole sick world collapse
The facts are getting sicker, even sicker perhaps
I stick a bush to make a bundle to escape this synapse
[Verse 3: Posdnuos]
Man
Life can get all up in your ass, baby
You better work it out. Now let me tell you what it’s
All about: our skin not considered equal
A meteor has more right than my people, who be
Wasting time screaming who they’ve hated—that’s why the Native
Tongues has officially been reinstated

[Hook: Posdnuos and (Trugoy the Dove)]
(Yeah, ha)
You know them stakes is high (Higher than high) when we talking ‘bout the…
(Uh huh)
Stakes is high (Higher than high)
Y’all know them stakes is high when we dealing with the…
(Come on) Stakes is high
Man, them stakes is high (Ayyo, what about that love?)

[Verse 4: Posdnuos]
Yo, it’s about
Love of cars, love of funds, loving
To love mad sex, loving to love guns
Love for opposite, love for fame and wealth
Love for the fact of no longer loving yourself, kid
We’re living in them days of the man-made ways
Where every aspect is vivid. These brothers no
Longer talk shit—ayyo, these n***as live it
‘Bout to give it to you 24/7 on the microphone
Plug One translating the zone
No offense to a player, but, yo, I don’t play
And if you take offense, fuck it, got to be that way
J.D. Dove, show your love. What you got to say?
[Verse 5: Trugoy the Dove]
I say
Jeans are making cakers at a high regard, and
N***as dying for it nowadays ain’t odd (It ain’t hard)
Investing in fantasies and not God (What?)
Welcome to reality—see, times is hard. People
Try to snatch the credit, but can’t claim the card, showing
Out in videos, saying they co-starred (Ayyo)
See, shit like that’ll make your mama cry
Better watch the way you spend it ‘cause the stakes is high

[Hook: Posdnuos and (Trugoy the Dove)]
You know them stakes is high when you’re dealing with the…
(Uh uh, word up, hah)
(Vibing, baby) Stakes is high (Come on)
Man, them stakes is high (Check him)

[Verse 6: Trugoy the Dove and (Posdnuos)]
I think that
Smiling in public is against the law (What?)
‘Cause love don’t get you through life no more—it’s who
You know and “How you, son?” And how you getting in? And who
The man holding heat? Yo, and how was the skins? And how
High? Yo, what up, hah? I heard you caught a body. Seem like
Every man and woman shared a life with John Gotti (But they ain’t)
(Organized!) Mixing crimes with life enzymes
Taking the big-scout route and n***as know doubt
[Verse 7: Posdnuos and (Trugoy the Dove)]
Yo
People go through pain and still don’t gain
Positive contact just like my main man
Who got others cleaning up his physical and fluids
His mind got congested, he got the nine and blew it
Neighborhoods are now hoods ‘cause nobody’s neighbors
Just animals surviving with that animal behavior
Under I, who be rhyming from dark to light sky (Sky)
Experiments when needles and skin connect
No wonder where we live is called “the projects” ‘cause when them
Stakes is high, you’ll damn sure try to do
Anything to get the piece of the pie
Electrify, even die for the cash
But, at last, we be out even though you’re wanting more
This issue is closed like an elevator door
But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor, where the… (What’s that, brother?)
(Come on)

[Hook: Posdnuos and (Trugoy the Dove)]
(Yeah) Stakes is high (Higher than high)
You know them stakes is high (Higher than high) when we’re dealing with the…
(This shit’s vibe, y’all)
Stakes is high (Higher than high)
(The stakes is high. Come on)