Everything Is Fair A Tribe Called Quest

[00:00.46] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:04.74] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:10.17] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:14.61] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:19.76] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:24.98] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:30.06] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:34.55] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[00:39.33] Lookin at Miss Lane, it was the fast lane
[00:41.64] Barely knows her name, struck by fame
[00:44.00] She just got a Benz, she rides with her friends
[00:46.18] Gotta keep her beeper in her purse to make ends
[00:49.04] Rollin down the block, checkin out the spots
[00:51.49] She winks at the cops, always give her props
[00:53.83] She knows she's the woman, can't nobody touch her
[00:56.28] Hangs out for the loot, makes her papes from the gutter
[00:58.81] Tried to make my moves on Miss Lane, she called me young boy
[01:01.46] Told her not to dis me I just want to be your love toy
[01:03.85] You young boy, my love toy, I doubt that very highly
[01:06.06] Just because you rhyme don't mean I'll let you try me
[01:08.82] Business oriented, egos never dented
[01:11.05] Always sweet scented, if it's business, she meant it
[01:13.54] Distractions never hurt, always did the work
[01:15.93] Always was alert, she never got jerked
[01:18.44] Queen of the feats, thrive to compete
[01:20.70] Love the funky beats while she drive down the street
[01:23.30] She was justified, couldn't get a job
[01:25.71] Had to feed her family, so she had to play, then rob
[01:28.22] Pullin out the ooh wop, listenin to doo-wop
[01:30.93] You don't have to say a word
[01:35.59] (Gunshots) That's all ya heard
[01:39.58] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[01:43.97] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[01:48.06] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[01:53.00] Everthing is fair when you're livin in the city
[01:57.83] She's not a big kahuna, wish I met her sooner
[02:00.14] Instead, I met her later, my love is much greater
[02:02.56] Put me on her roster, to rid her of imposters
[02:05.09] And to sell the buddah for the sexy drug ruler
[02:07.48] Love is my motive, now I'm drug promotive
[02:10.20] Plus I needed duckets to fill up my buckets
[02:12.69] Supplied me with the squeezy to make my life easy
[02:15.06] Now I'm missing action for this fatal attraction
[02:17.65] But don't you let me catch you with your joint up in these bitches
[02:20.09] And don't you even dare to plan a plot upon my riches
[02:22.39] Cuz if you play me out, I think I'll let ya be
[02:24.74] I'll be damned if I let a brotha try to gas me
[02:27.10] I played my cards well, try to live swell
[02:29.76] For the G, I would sell, cuz I was deep in hell
[02:32.30] But then I really wasn't, she had a fly cousin
[02:34.68] Who would give me booty on the side of my cutie
[02:37.39] Elaine, she kinda new, that I would do the do
[02:39.54] But she didn't tear, I did my work with care
[02:42.00] That's all that really mattered, he money never splattered
[02:44.41] As long as she was paid, she was in the shade
[02:47.09] You can't really blame her for holdin' on a flamer
[02:49.41] Society taught her, but they didn't tame her
[02:51.82] A ten clip salute, hunny heres a troop
[02:54.40] She will never stop until she reach the top
[02:56.83] Top, top...
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