[Melvin van Peebles]

You gotta play the game, if you want to get the prize

From the first second a woman wants the same thing as you

But tell her so, she'll deny that it's true

You gotta play the game if you want to get the prize

[Quasimoto]

You gots to play the phony game

If you want to get the prize

1998, it's no surprise

It's 88 [?] to analyze

[?] drop the dollars

To the ladies if you're

Driving a Mercedes

Over lex

Finna try to put an X on

Put it down for a nigga with cash

And get that ass

But a nigga that's poor

To better he be gettin a horse

If you want to remain

You gots to play the phony game

It's a brain thing

The girls been doing the same thing

It's a Lord Quas reign

[?] dance or fuck the [?]

It's time for the Astro Black train

So where my main thing?

Find that your girl's talking behind your back

Some niggas give a smack

But yo I just act

Like everything's alright

Cause I'm a [?]

Just play the phony game

And go to tend to rollin lanes

I be acting like I'm gonna give these honies some money

But Lord Quas only play these dames like Jim Rummy

[Melvin van Peebles]

You gotta play the game, if you want to get the prize

From the first second a woman wants the same thing as you

But tell her so, she'll deny that it's true

You gotta play the game if you want to get the prize