-Performing the title track to their classic album,
"Stakes is High," once again, De La Soul and The roots!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Let's go!
♪♪
-Cooler than cool, suave then supreme.
Our cannibal tones flow upstream.
We run lyrics, lyrics that stay loyal.
And all lunatics are the hip to our soil.
We are gods and not goddess,
but we are gentle and modest.
We are here for you,
we are De La Soul with the legendary Roots crew.
And we about to give you a vibe.
Are y'all ready, y'all?!
[ Cheers and applause ]
Come on, y'all.
♪ You know the vibe ♪
♪ We want you all to say vibrations ♪
♪ Stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ And when we say vibe we want y'all to say ♪
-♪ Vibrations ♪
-♪ Come on, stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ And when we say vibe, we want y'all to say vibrations ♪
♪ Stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ The instamatic focal point ♪
♪ Bringing damage to your boroughs ♪
♪ Be some brothers from the East ♪
♪ With them beats that be thorough ♪
♪ Got the solar gravitation, and we're bound to pull it ♪
♪ We gets down like brothers are found ♪
♪ Ducking from bullets ♪
♪ Gun control means using both hands in my land ♪
♪ And it is all about cautious livin' ♪
♪ Migrating to a higher form of consequence ♪
-♪ Compliments ♪
-♪ Of strugglin', shouldn't be notable ♪
♪ Every word said be hip-hop quotable ♪
-♪ I'm sick of girls shakin' asses ♪
♪ I'm sick of talkin' about blunts ♪
♪ Sick of Versace glasses ♪
♪ Sick of slang, sick of half-ass awards shows ♪
♪ Sick of name-brand clothes ♪
♪ And all these Jones with their half-ass tracks ♪
♪ Cocaine and crack brings sickness to blacks ♪
♪ Sick of swoll' head rappers with their sicker-than raps ♪
♪ Clappers and gats makin' the whole sick world collapse ♪
♪ The facts are gettin' sick and even sicker perhaps ♪
♪ I stickabush to make a bundle to escape this synapse ♪
-♪ See, life can get all up in you ♪
♪ Baby, you betta organize ♪
♪ And let me tell you what it's all about ♪
♪ Skin not considered equal ♪
♪ A meteor has more right than my people ♪
♪ Wastin' time screaming who they hated ♪
♪ And why them native tongues are officially re-instated ♪
♪ The vibe ♪
♪ We want y'all to say ♪
-♪ Vibrations ♪ -♪ Come on ♪
♪ Stakes is high ♪
♪ Listen, why don't you give it a try ♪
♪ When we say vibe ♪
♪ We want y'all to say ♪
-♪ Vibrations ♪
-Louder! ♪ Stakes is high ♪
Come on, we can do it, we can do it!
♪ When we say vibe ♪
♪ We want y'all to say ♪
-♪ Vibrations ♪
-♪ Come on, stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ Yo, it's about loving of cars ♪
♪ Loving of funds, loving to love mad sex ♪
♪ Loving to love guns ♪
♪ Love for opposites, love for fame and wealth ♪
♪ And love for the fact of no longer loving yourself ♪
♪ We living in them days of the man-made ways ♪
♪ See, every aspect is vivid ♪
♪ These brothers no longer talk ♪
♪ Hey, yo, these brothers live it ♪
♪ 'Bout to give it 24/7 on the microphone ♪
♪ Plug one translating the zone ♪
♪ And no offense to a player but ♪
♪ We don't play ♪
♪ And if you take offense, it gotta be that way ♪
♪ And my man Black Thought got something to say ♪
-♪ I see G's are making figures at a high regard ♪
♪ And people dying for it nowadays ain't odd ♪
♪ Investing in fantasies and not God ♪
♪ Well, welcome to reality ♪
♪ See, times is hard ♪
♪ People wanna snatch the credit but can't claim the card ♪
♪ Showing out in videos, saying they cold stars ♪
♪ See, things like that will make your mama cry ♪
♪ Better watch the way you spend it ♪
♪ 'Cause them stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ When we talkin' 'bout the vibe ♪
♪ We want y'all to say ♪
-♪ Vibrations ♪
-♪ Come on, stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
-♪ I think that smiling in public is against the law ♪
♪ Because love don't get you through life no more ♪
♪ It's who you know and how you, son ♪
♪ And how you gettin' in and who the man holding heat, yo ♪
♪ And how was the skins ♪ -♪ And how high ♪
-♪ Yo, what up, huh, what up, huh ♪
♪ I heard you caught a body ♪
♪ Seem like every man and woman ♪
♪ Shares a life with John Gotti ♪
-♪ But they ain't organized ♪
-♪ Mixing crimes with life enzymes ♪
♪ Taking the big scout route, poppin' out ♪
♪ Better than they know they daughters and they sons ♪
-♪ And so people go through pain and still don't gain ♪
♪ Positive contact ♪
♪ Just like my main man ♪
♪ Who got others filling up his physical and fluids ♪
♪ His mind got congested ♪
♪ He got a nine and blew it ♪
♪ Neighborhoods are now hoods ♪
♪ 'Cause nobody's neighbors, just animals ♪
♪ Surviving with that animal behavior under I ♪
♪ Who be rocking from dark to light sky ♪
♪ Experiments when needles and skin connects ♪
♪ No matter if you don't understand where we're from ♪
♪ They're called the projects 'cause when the stakes is high ♪
♪ They'll damn sure try to do ♪
♪ Anything to get a piece of the pie ♪
♪ Electrify ♪
♪ Even die for the cash ♪
♪ But at last, we be out ♪
♪ Even though you wantin' more ♪
♪ This issue is closed like an elevator door ♪
♪ But soon re-opened once we get to the next floor ♪
♪ Come on, vibe ♪
♪ We want y'all to say ♪
-♪ Vibrations ♪
-♪ Come on, stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ When we say vibe, we want y'all to say vibrations ♪
Come on! ♪ Stakes is high, y'all ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ When we say vibe, we want y'all to say ♪
-♪ Vibrations ♪
-♪ Come on, stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
♪ 'Cause we are the vibe, and we need y'all to know ♪
♪ Vibrations ♪
♪ Stakes is high ♪
♪ You know them stakes is high ♪
It's a moment in our lives that is really important.
It's really important to us.
I mean, it guided us in the direction that,
you know, it's made us who we are today.
You know? Fighting for our music.
Fighting for our legacy.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-Thank you, Dave!
-De La Soul!