I'm A Player

And we sure like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

And we sure do like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

You see, I made up my mind when I was seventeen

I ain't with no marriage and a wedding ring

I'll be a player for life, so where's my wife?

Probably at the rehab stuck on the pipe

'Cause she must be smokin' and I'm not jokin'

Too $hort, baby, comin' straight from Oakland

Got way more women than I ever need

I put that on a big fat bag of weed

'Cause I'll give you my girl and wouldn't give you a joint

Can't waste the dank and now I made my point

So you can light that weed while I spit this rap

And tell you 'bout a player from way back

When I was seven, I used to run the young girls game

Now I'm twenty-seven and I still ain't changed

Gettin' freaky in the right situations

You wanna rap? Well, that's a nice occupation

To get served when you want, how you want it, fool

'Cause I was knockin' ugly girls back in high school

I used to get them young girls

I used to be broke and had a messed up curl

Now I got my own phat business

Tell a story 'bout rags to riches

'Bout a pimp named $horty from the Oakland set

Been mackin' for years and ain't fell off yet

So if you ever see me rollin' in my drop-top Caddy

Throw a peace sign and say, "Hey, pimp daddy"

'Cause I never would front on my folks

I slow down and let the gold diggers count my spokes

Women come a dime a dozen

So don't get mad when I'm datin' your cousin

Your two sisters, I even date your ex-wife

$hort Dog in the house and it's a player's life

And we sure like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

And we sure do like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

And we sure like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

And we sure do like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

All you fake players, peep game from the real

Player hatin' lover, tell me how do you feel

When you're frontin' to the homies how you grindin'

Look for a tramp, but you can't find 'em

You got one girlfriend and see her every night

Come around the partners, lyin' 'bout your life

Looked at your watch, it said 6:22

Cut to the house and said, "Baby, I love you"

Can't act like a mack like Playboy $hort

And the rest of the macks in the streets of the O

Comin' up we learned how to break these tramps

And when you're through gettin' yours, then you shake these tramps

And when you're older, it's nothin' but a routine

Makin' G's every day, workin' blue jeans

I know I seen it before, I see it again

Young tender saying, "$hort, would you be my man"

And we sure like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

And we sure do like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

And we sure like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

And we sure do like to play

I'm a player, and I'm playing just to play

Yeah, it's a lot of fake players out there

Talkin' bad about Ant Banks, you know what I'm sayin'?

But I ain't trippin', though

$hort Dog, what you do about them player haters?

Tryna stay away from Kris Kross imitators

Put ya in a cross, 'cause they're really just haters

I thought you knew, $hort Dog is a player

Born to mack and got women everywhere

I ride around town in my clean-ass cars

Screenin' these ladies like movie stars

Checkin' my traps like a dirty rat

I was born to mack, hook you just like crack

I'll be a monkey on your back

Until you kick that $hort Dog habit, got you all on my tip

And even though I can't do it to you every day

It's 'cause I got another girl around the way

We can all get together on a late night

Cut to the house, hook somethin' up real tight

I really don't care

'Cause I'm a player