“Don’t Play Me” is the second track on Prince’s 21st album, The Truth (his fifth under the name ), but a year before the album’s release, the track was released as the b-side of The Truth, the album’s first and only single (available by mail-order only).
[Verse 1]
Don't play me
I'm over 30 and I don't smoke weed
I put my ass away
And the music I play
Ain’t the type of stereo you're trying to feed
Don't play me
[Verse 2]
Don't play me
I use proper English and I'm straight
I'm in the news again
For paying dues my friend
And not the ganda you propping my way
Don't play me
[Verse 2]
I've been to the mountaintop and it ain’t what you say
Don't play me
[Verse 3]
Don't play me
I'm the wrong color and I play guitar
My only competition is, well, me in the past
If time, time, time existed moving ever so fast
Don't play me
[Verse 4]
You couldn't play enough of me now
To make me feel like a star
Don't play me I already do in my car
Don't play me
[Verse 5]
Don't be mad at me
The curtain puller in the game
Maybe all—how you call us?—"niggas" ain't the same
It's all good when you know the only fame
Is the light that comes from God and the joy you get to say His name
Don't play me
[Verse 6]
Don't play me
I've seen the mountaintop and it ain't what you say
Don't play me
I already got laid
Don’t Play Me was written by Prince.
Don’t Play Me was produced by Prince.
Prince released Don’t Play Me on Fri Feb 14 1997.