Faith Evans, Consequence, A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out lyrics

I really know how it feels to be
Stressed out, stressed out (Oh, yeah)
When you're face to face with your adversity
(Oh)
I really know how it feels to be (Oh, oh)
Stressed out, stressed out (Oh, oh)
We're gonna make this thing
Work out eventually (Oh)

Yo, I ain't one to complain
But there's things in the game
(What's your name?) Consequence I'm tight
Burnt like flames
(And why's that?) American dreams
They got this ghetto kid in a fiend
Don't stress that
'cause it's not in your bloodstream
Your whole being comes from
Greatness d'you remember?
Shaytan got you caught in
The storms of December
And brothers on the block packing nines
Like September
Crazy situations keeps pockets on slender
(Check it) yo, I be on the avenue
Where they be actin brand-new
I'm splurging on these Reebok
Joints for shorty boo all of a sudden
I saw these two kids frontin'
Talking out they joints but
They wasn't saying nuttin'
My hand was on my toolie
They was actin unruly
(Say word) Yo, word up! Yo I was tight
Caught up but I swallowed my pride and
Let that nonsense ride
Because I'm positive it seems
That negative dies
Yo, we was at the dice game
Making these cats look silly
Flamming, steady running off at the Willie
I had my cash mixed, my rent due
With my play dough
I gotta see some loot, so on my girls, I blow
Shook them shit's in my palm
Let 'em hit the flo'
Kept my eyeballs scoping for them pigs, po-po
I got to go on the ave'
See my parole by four
But I gotta steady freak these boys like JoJo
And I was doing it, 'til I met Ike, Spike
And Mike one roll
They had my pockets thirstier than Sprite
Yo, I know the feeling when
You feeling like a villain
You be having good thoughts
But the evils be revealin'
And the stresses of life can take
You off the right path (No doubt)
Jealousy and envy tends to
Infiltrate your staff
We gotta hold it down so we can move on past
All adversities, so we can get through fast
Like that

I really know how it feels
To be, stressed out, stressed out
When you're face to face with your adversity
I really know how it feels
To be, stressed out, stressed out
We're gonna make this thing
Work out eventually

You got the NWO (low cash flow)
Your baby's on the way
(and you don't know who)
And crosstown niggas trying to (bust at you)
Aiyyo they got me stressed out
(and you don't know what to do)
So frame this Kodak, black
And vision to my contact
With a poultry scrap
Workers get pistol smacked
The switch-hitting Queens
Niggas liquid sword spittin with raw poppy
And now your first love is krill
Your vision of the mil got
Crept like Hey Lover
Tried to rise to the top
You just couldn't recover
And all I want is my laceration of the pie
To get this whipped cream before
The water runs dry
Niggas flash dancing, yo, I don't know why
You're sick of snitching
She got you cruising to the pokey
Like Smokey
The stress be trying to squeeze out a homey
While I'll be trying to get
Star status like Shinobi
So we can build a dynasty
Just like the Toby's
And all I want is the world to know my steez
These money hungry niggas is seven thirty
And got me stressed out
Like these frog emcees

I really know how it feels
To be, stressed out, stressed out
When you're face to face with your adversity
I really know how it feels
To be, stressed out, stressed out
We're gonna make this thing
Work out eventually

Don't worry we gon make it (gonna make it)
Don't worry we gon make it (oh yeah)
Don't worry we gon make it (gonna make it)
We gon make it (gotta make it)
Don't worry we gon make it (gotta make it)
We're gonna make it (we gotta make it)
Don't worry we gon make it
(we gonna make it) we gonna make it (oh)
Don't worry we gon make it (oh)
Don't worry we gon make it (gonna make it)
Don't worry we gon make it (oh)
We gon make it don't worry we gon make it
I know we gonna make it
(we're gonna make it)
C'mon baby we gon make it (yeah)
We gon make it (yeah ah)
Don't worry we gon make it
(we're gonna make it)
We've gotta make it (we've gotta make it)
We've gotta make it (oh yeah)
Know we're gonna make it
We're gonna make it, gonna make it
We gotta make it, know we gonna make it