Ego

Lyrics

Ego, ego
 Skip it, trippin in my mind
 Ego, ego
 Skip it, trippin in my mind
 Ego, ego
 Trippy, trippy, trippy, trippy, trippy
 Ego
 Ego
 I got one, you got one, and now we equal
 Sometimes it makes you trip out on your people
 Sometimes it has connotations of evil
 Sometimes niggas call on it when they need to
 It's called the ego
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 Ay, it's hard to really make the subject positively stated
 Some may hate it and some might overrate it
 It's a top story and you rarely see a trend
 So all you psychoanalysts, pull out your pad and pen, it's called the ego
 Come up with an idea, and no one seems to get it
 Then every time you mention it, they stare like you're two-headed
 But one day in your cubicle your idea really comes to view
 Your boss is walking by, he sees it too and he takes it from you
 She put you on the aces of all the stripper places
 That has the kinda clientele where niggas trickle very well
 You beg her and you plead her and you tuck away your ego
 She knows you need the dicking and she knows you need the people
 They call you fat and lazy, your commentary crazy
 They photoshop your face on a box of McCormick gravy
 And now that inner voice, the ego, making you get wavy
 Change your diet, hit the gym and say "What were you saying to me?"
 The ego makes you do it, it makes you face the music
 Or run away from life so fast that you'll outsprint Carl Lewis
 That has you think your deceptive ways of being untruest
 Had the prettiest brown eyes but you change them shits to bluest
 It's the ego
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 Ooo, Jack White
 Ooo, Jack White
 A celebrated genius, my dick game's the meanest
 I'll take the girl that's augmented, new me is invented
 I'll take the biggest house in Calabassas
 Anyone for Michael Phelps swimming classes?
 You need it when you're balling, equally when you're falling
 Or when those kids in school on your locker they get to scrawling
 Epithets is racist are stupid and mean in nature
 Something that can make you feel stronger when people hate ya
 Ego make you violent, or govern like a tyrant
 Or switch ya dictionary's word from vibrant to vivrant
 Fool the thirsty people, selling tap water in bottles
 Fooled a girl with NYU scholarship, now she models
 Ego has no ending, has people pretending
 Religious zealots get jealous 'cause guys want their defending
 This is the last Tribe and our ego hopes that you felt us
 And closing for our ego, we know only God can help us
 Ego, ego
 Spit the truth right in my mind
 Ego, ego
 Spit the truth right in my mind
 Ego, ego
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 Ego, ego
 Spit the truth right in my mind
 Ego, ego
 Spit the truth right in my mind
 Ego, ego
 Spit the truth right in my mind
 Ego, ego
 Spit the truth right in my mind
 Ego, ego
 Spit the truth right in my mind
 

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Song Details

Duration
03:17
Key
11
Tempo
178 BPM

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