This song is timeless, and nearly 20 years after its creation, still possesses the mystique it did the first time i heard it ~1994. To me, at first blush, all those years ago, it had some kind of homo-erotic allure. The line "so that the others may do" tells of something which must be done for others to follow suit. It felt like like some kind of roxy-glam-pop invitation to sexual liberation.
Upon further introspection I think the song may not have an intrinsic meaning, but simply represents a sort of "holding open the door" for people who otherwise might be affronted by this song/band's unusual style. I know, as a sort of armchair rock-historian, that there have been few bands so daring and so true to the sound that wanted to emerge from within, whether the creator wanted it or not. This band handled it with elegance and grace seldom, if ever, seen.
[Hook: x2]
See this how playas rock
If I don't like the way she acting
Then I'm a tell her bye
How you goin' play a playa
You know how playas ride
Game recognize game
And I been running game a lot
Never get caught in my lie
Cross my heart and hope to die
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
[Verse 1]
Every-thang was cool we was feeling each otha
Chillin' in the jacuzzi just water no bubbles
You know me I keep it gutta
Hit it until you studda'
Then she got there asking me questions
Like she was undercover
Like who was that lil chick that I let ride up in my ride
I'm a pimp so it ain't nothing for me to think of a lie
But I'd rather keep it real
And tell her just how I feel
Looky here if you see with with anotha chick
Then it's just what it is
You ain't my main dame
I just beat you out the frame
Baby I'm hurricane
You gotta stay in yo lane
Stick to the script of a pimp
And follow my gutta rules
And I u feel like u wanna leave
Then do what you do
Baby u think I'm goin' cry
Just because I lost you
Every-time I loose one
I bounce back with 2
How you think I got you
Somebody got laid off
I'm a pimp I pimp a chicken
Until she get plaid out
[Hook: x2]
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
[Verse 2]
Say lil mama let me get up in it
Betta make you wanna give it to me
Like you never gave it up before
And I bet I make you moan
With my boys when I pull up in a Rolls Royce
I know where to hit ro
And I pull up fresh in the back
And the mode real low low
She can't see my eyes
Everybody holla cause-ya boy so blind
And all I gotta do is get her in my ride
Give me a million dollars and I can make it go live
Let it be any chick in the world and I can make her mine
Put her in the whip
Now I'm feeling on her thighs
Take a shot of patron
And I'm finna go live
And then she told me that she want me to cut her
But she ain't want me to use no rubber (no rubber)
I'm feeling like u tryna get me caught up
No disrespect lil mama but that's just how I was brought up
If I can't use protection when I cut
Then it ain't no cut
I can't picture me going in you raw
That just ain't what's up
Lil mama I'm a pimp
And I will never get caught in my lie
Cross my heart and hope to die
Girl you know how playas rock
[Hook: x2]
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
And then she told me that she want me to cut her
But she ain't want me to use a rubber (no rubber) [x2]
See this how playas rock
If I don't like the way she acting
Then I'm a tell her bye
How you goin' play a playa
You know how playas ride
Game recognize game
And I been running game a lot
Never get caught in my lie
Cross my heart and hope to die
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
[Verse 1]
Every-thang was cool we was feeling each otha
Chillin' in the jacuzzi just water no bubbles
You know me I keep it gutta
Hit it until you studda'
Then she got there asking me questions
Like she was undercover
Like who was that lil chick that I let ride up in my ride
I'm a pimp so it ain't nothing for me to think of a lie
But I'd rather keep it real
And tell her just how I feel
Looky here if you see with with anotha chick
Then it's just what it is
You ain't my main dame
I just beat you out the frame
Baby I'm hurricane
You gotta stay in yo lane
Stick to the script of a pimp
And follow my gutta rules
And I u feel like u wanna leave
Then do what you do
Baby u think I'm goin' cry
Just because I lost you
Every-time I loose one
I bounce back with 2
How you think I got you
Somebody got laid off
I'm a pimp I pimp a chicken
Until she get plaid out
[Hook: x2]
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
[Verse 2]
Say lil mama let me get up in it
Betta make you wanna give it to me
Like you never gave it up before
And I bet I make you moan
With my boys when I pull up in a Rolls Royce
I know where to hit ro
And I pull up fresh in the back
And the mode real low low
She can't see my eyes
Everybody holla cause-ya boy so blind
And all I gotta do is get her in my ride
Give me a million dollars and I can make it go live
Let it be any chick in the world and I can make her mine
Put her in the whip
Now I'm feeling on her thighs
Take a shot of patron
And I'm finna go live
And then she told me that she want me to cut her
But she ain't want me to use no rubber (no rubber)
I'm feeling like u tryna get me caught up
No disrespect lil mama but that's just how I was brought up
If I can't use protection when I cut
Then it ain't no cut
I can't picture me going in you raw
That just ain't what's up
Lil mama I'm a pimp
And I will never get caught in my lie
Cross my heart and hope to die
Girl you know how playas rock
[Hook: x2]
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
See this how playas rock
And then she told me that she want me to cut her
But she ain't want me to use a rubber (no rubber) [x2]
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