Artist: A Tribe Called Quest Album: We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service Song: Ego Typed by: Gemini_20502K@Yahoo.com [Chorus: Q-Tip] Ego, ego, skippin' trippin' in my mind Ego, ego, skippin' trippin' in my mind Ego, ego, trippin' trippin' trippin' trippin' trippin' 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 [Verse One: Q-Tip] Hey! It's hard to really make the subject positively stated Some may hate it, and some may 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 And 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 walkin' by he sees it too and he takes it from you She puts you on the aces, of all the stripper places And has the kinda clientele where niggas trick off very well You beg her and you plead her and you tuck away your ego She knows you need the chicken and you know that she's your people (The ego) They call you fat and lazy, your commentary crazy They photoshop your face on a box of +McCormick Gravy+ And now that inner voice that ego makin' you get wavy Change your diet, hit the gym and say what were you sayin' 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 (Fast) It has you think your deceptive ways of being are truest Had the prettiest brown eyes but you change them shits to the bluest It's the ego [Interlude: Jack White playing the guitar] [Q-Tip]: OOOH!!! Jack White!!! OOOH!!! Jack White!!! [Verse Two: Q-Tip] A celebrated genius, my dick game is the meanest I'll take the girl that's augmented new me is invented I'll take the biggest house in Calabasas Anyone for Michael Phelps swimming classes? You need it when you're ballin', equally when you're falling Or when those kids in school on your locker they get to scrawlin' Epithets that's racist is stupid and mean in nature Somethin' that can make you feel stronger when people hate ya Ego could make you violent, or govern like a tyrant Or switch your dictionary's word from vibrant to vivrant Fool the thirsty people sellin' 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 [Chorus]: Ego, ego, skippin' trippin' in my mind Ego, ego, skippin' trippin' in my mind Ego, ego, trippin' trippin' trippin' trippin' trippin' Ego, ego, skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego, skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego, trippin' trippin' trippin' trippin' trippin' Ego, ego, skippin' trippin' in my mind Ego, ego, skippin' trippin' in my mind