Ego

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 Ay, 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 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 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 she knows that she's your 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 It has you think your deceptive ways of being are the truest Had the prettiest brown eyes but you change them shits to the bluest It's the ego Ooh, Jack White Ooh, 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 Calabases 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 that's racist and 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 Fool a girl with NYU scholarship and now she models Ego has no ending, has people pretending Religious zealots get perilous 'cause God's will they're 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 Skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego Skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego Ego, ego Skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego Skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego Skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego Skippin', trippin' in my mind Ego, ego Skippin', trippin' in my mind --- Ego - A Tribe Called Quest