Caffeine

Yeah, play for keeps, I've to tell you my name, here we go

Yo, I got twenty-four bars to heal these scars

I'm an underground cat but still like money and cars

I'll introduce myself, check it out, ladies and gentlemen

The one and only Evidence, servin' up your medicine

Varsity letterman 'E' on my coat

Every time I touch the paper, it's murder he wrote

I'm from a real big city called 'Watch where you go'

A place you think you know only to find out you don't

Born in L.A., it's hard to get star struck

Born in L.A., so I always keep my guard up

Born in L.A., plus deal where I stay

Everyday cats like Julio G pave the way

My crews thick, all sharp, take a pick

All ready to spit or sit down and write a hit

We learn both from the best on both coasts

Couldn't stress enough for the times, we kill chose

Problem here, problem there, got through 'em

Label here, label there, politics and bullshit, we rip

The mic's cocked back, a full clip

I don't preach, I rap, I'm on stage, this ain't a bull pit

This is it, we're up and running, torch is lit

Prepare for marathons, we don't sprint

I save my crew's name for last, injections lethal

It's L.A.'s finest y'all, it's Dilated Peoples

And y'all can't sleep now, play for keeps

We play for keeps now, y'all can't sleep

And y'all can't sleep now, play for keeps

We play for keeps now and y'all can't sleep

There's people you know, there's people you don't

There's people involved that shouldn't be, you gotta keep close

There's people you know, there's people you don't

There's people involved that shouldn't be, you gotta keep close

I got that flow for the street

Stay ahead of the time, stay behind the beat

It's not what you know, but what you can prove

Everyday they keep chasing me down with little clues

It's Dilated from Los Angels

You didn't know friends make better music than strangers

So far, I've been misunderstood

Wherever I fall, I make the category look good

Twenty-six years young when I wrote this down

My whole life ahead of me, I was known in my town

Things started to change and started to stretch

The farther away I went the closer to home I started to get

My actions cause reactions

Some love and hate shit, I don't ask, it just happens

Either or we came to get it started

Before the show find me at the bar drinkin' Bicardi

This is it, the cats worked hard to have things

Here to keep the party up, I rap caffeine

I save my crew's name for last, injections lethal

It's L.A.'s finest, it's Dilated Peoples

And y'all can't sleep now, play for keeps

We play for keeps now, y'all can't sleep

And y'all can't sleep now, play for keeps

We play for keeps now and y'all can't sleep

There's people you know, there's people you don't

There's people involved that shouldn't be, you gotta keep close

There's people you know, there's people you don't

There's people involved that shouldn't be, you gotta keep close

There's people you know, there's people you don't

There's people involved that shouldn't be, you gotta keep close

There's people you know, there's people you don't

There's people involved that shouldn't be, you gotta keep close