Mainstream-Outkast

[ti:Mainstream] [ar:Outkast] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:12.51]Revolutionary scary [00:39.38]Thought provoking spoken [00:41.56]Words of a chain I dont feel but I see [00:44.55]Visions from me [00:45.68]At twenty three making us free in my community [00:48.05]One day is what I live for [00:50.79]Aint thinking about no hope no more [00:52.79]I got my boots I kick it till I get with [00:55.41]Adapt and overcome oh hum hum [00:57.47]Go get my gun load up for fun and put down with the frown [01:01.15]What goes round comes round from m l k to cascade [01:04.15]I know its through them plenty figures [01:07.02]Coc*ine dealers walk the wrong side [01:08.83]Up in they rides [01:10.01]Looking cleaner then I seen them the last time [01:12.32]Then selling dimes now its quarter keys stacking gs [01:14.69]In the south indies [01:15.88]My ni**a them folks riding bicycles among vehicles [01:17.94]Off in the hood [01:19.87]Knowing each and every nigger sellin but can you blame [01:22.81]The fact the only way a brother can survive the game [01:25.55]The block hard to get by the d**e dealing fatal killings [01:28.42]In fair times so writing rhymes [01:30.36]It aint just the police [01:31.79]We kill each other just lost another brother [01:33.98]Fast living will get you took [01:35.66]Thinking it cant happen to you and then it do [01:38.34]Off crooked schemes its just a dream [01:40.28]Floating face down in the mainstream [01:42.09]Think it is when it aint all peaches and cream [01:59.03]Thats why some are found floating face down in the main stream [02:01.72]They swan divin [02:02.78]Fit they name be thrashing an album [02:04.27]Go-kart rushin to finish their album then you find them [02:06.71]Lost dog paddling back stroking what done happened [02:08.64]Be rhymin catching the day when the recipe calls for black and [02:11.46]Wrong ingredients [02:12.08]Maybe too much herbs and spices [02:13.58]Maybe you got hungry for the wrong dish [02:15.01]Southern greens and this entice them how them joke the same [02:16.26]So Im gonna sing just like them to get where they at [02:17.57]Ill even break my by back to touch their rim if I gotta [02:19.06]My alta mater be that I follow [02:20.63]I bite whatever thats looking tasty water it down then swallow [02:21.06]I hope you vomit wont call no names cause thats not my job [02:24.31]It just applies to whom it may concern you know who you are [02:26.62]But if you dont you never will you just receive the steel [02:28.74]But then it might get ugly cause trust me niggas do feel [02:31.30]The way that I felt when I wrote this but we must stay in focus [02:34.42]We kings and queens up in this thing get rid of all them jokers [02:36.85]Face down face down face down [02:37.97]I let you stay in my crib now you know where I live [02:55.41]When you was hungry fed you a hot meal look at the hand you deal [03:00.03]Me crudball business giving niggers inches so here take a foot [03:04.15]Luck only counts in rabbits feet and horseshoes [03:07.21]Experience is sometimes the best teacher until we get our own plate [03:11.58]I hope you dont mind me eating off of yours [03:14.45]Process momma moping like jerry [03:16.32]Meanwhile fairies of the street tinkling pixie dust over greenery [03:20.31]Never to obtain another level of con-science [03:23.31]Only to test to poke and see [03:26.06]Why laying here they scheme over one another mouth to feed [03:29.30] with a decision to make now words shake your destiny [03:33.17]But a missle will take it all the way just as quick as you can say [03:37.72]I wish I never did what I did now face this bid [03:40.65]It was the company you kept the many places you slept [03:43.90]When you shouldnt have geeking like a rat jumping like a trap [03:47.65]Contributing to sin and your ni**a b**ch in the court showing paper thin [03:53.01]Got you niggers where they want you again [03:56.31]Floating face down in the mainstream [03:58.75]Thats why thats why thats why [04:01.62]Everybodys a player rubbin them kangols on their head [04:10.36]Thinking its all about your clothes nigger its all about your self [04:13.10]The way you feel about your life the times that you done shared with [04:15.91]Your friends and family up and down like hoes give head [04:18.41]To dicks oh six serving them in the mix but aint no mystery [04:21.84]You know the history about this clique b**ch [04:23.59]Oh what you want me to call you slut [04:26.02]Then why you f**king all them niggers letting them all up in your guts [04:28.90]But see that aids Im afraid thats why I play the quiet role [04:31.76]I lay in the cut every month thinking Ill let that fire roll [04:35.13]Like chimneys and smoke signals maybe peace pipes even [04:37.26]My partners call me big boi and my first name is not steven [04:39.69]In the mainstream home team banging them with these hits [04:41.75]In the mix flowing like some motherf**king swordfish