All Work No Play

By Ice Cube

On Man Up

Released on September 12, 2025

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[Intro]

Black isn't power, knowledge is power

For you can be black as a crow

You can be white as snow

And if you don't know and ain't got no dough, you can't go

And that's for sho'

This one's for the OGs that feel like I feel, yeah


[Verse 1]

I'm clean as they come (Clean as they come), mean with the gun (Mean with the gun)

Me and my team, we gleam with the sun

In a beam with the young, rhyme on the drum

Let me show you how to make cream out of crumb

Get it out the mud, sweat, tears, and blood

When you shoot your shot, make sure it ain't a dud

Don't shoot a slug inside a thug

That'll gеt your ass stretched out like a rug

Thеy finna pull the plug, don't call his phone

Homie, what you doing, boy? Don't you see that drone?

Don't you see them cameras posted all around your home?

Tyrone ain't a clone, what the fuck that nigga on?

Twilight Zone, home with the highlights on

I micromanage this motherfuckin' microphone

West Coast, nigga, is what I condone

They call me Black, but I'm really, really Capitone

Don't give a fuck what the cops is on

I'm getting blown, bitch, with my boxers on

Before she started, my socks was on

She blew 'em off when she turned the rocket on, nigga


[Chorus]

All work and no play, come and get this work

I don't play with these motherfuckin' megahertz

All work and no play, come and get this work

I don't play with these motherfuckin' megahertz

Get it out the mud, pull it out the dirt

A nigga ain't playin' when I'm giving you this work

Get it out the mud, pull it out the dirt

A nigga ain't playin' when I'm giving you this work


[Verse 2]

24/7 (Yeah), 365, fuck a day off, every night is the playoffs

I work smarter and harder

I heard a nigga say "What?"

Make money, drink water, and I'm doing that (Yeah)

Always pursuing that

Dog really move the cat (Woof), you can't ruin that

Vacations don't tempt me

'Cause I'm living up in your fuckin' mind, bitch, rent free

And it's empty, full of cobwebs

Now I see why your motherfuckin' eyes red

I work a double shift, plus OT

Then I smoke an O-Z where the hoes be

I'm the youngest son of hozie

You know the game, pimp (Yup)

Yo' bitch chose me

But I don't want her (Nah), you can have her back

You's a sperm donor that turned on her

I'm a earner with the burner (Wow)

Nat Turner will make you a great learner

The back burner is where you cook (Yeah)

Most of y'all will never know what it took


[Chorus]

All work and no play, come and get this work

I don't play with these motherfuckin' megahertz

All work and no play, come and get this work

I don't play with these motherfuckin' megahertz

Get it out the mud, pull it out the dirt

A nigga ain't playin' when I'm giving you this work

Get it out the mud, pull it out the dirt

A nigga ain't playin' when I'm giving you this work


[Outro]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, y-y-yeah

Yeah, y-yeah (I ain't playing), y-y-yeah