You Played Yourself
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| Single by Ice-T | ||||
| from the album 'The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say' | ||||
| B-side | "Freedom Of Speech" | |||
| Released | April 5, 1990 | |||
| Genre | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap | |||
| Label | Sire Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Ice-T, Charles Bobbit, James Brown, Fred Wesley, Afrika Islam | |||
| Producer(s) |
Afrika Islam Ice-T |
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"You Played Yourself" is a 1990 rap single by Ice-T, from his third album The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech...Just Watch What You Say.
The song tells details several failures through hubris. One goes uneducated thinking he is a gangster when really he is nothing. Another is a rapper who offends his fans because he thinks he is above them but they turn on him - he is left unemployed with no one because he has offended them all. Another is a drug addict, paranoid and doesn't eat. He rips off his family for drug money and they disown him. He then tries to do an armed robbery to get money but accidentally kills someone and ends up on death row. The track heavily samples "The Boss" by James Brown from the Black Caesar (film) soundtrack.
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