OutKast, T-Mo, Khujo Goodie - Mainstream lyrics

(Water splash) uh, y'all know what it is
Uh, y'all know what it is
Uh, y'all know what it is

Revolutionary, scary
Thought provoking, spoken
Words of a change I don't feel but I see
Visions from me at 23
Making it free in my community
One day is what I live for
Ain't thinking about no hope no more
I got my boots I kick it 'til I get with
Adapt and overcome, oh hum hum
Go get my gun, load up for fun
And put down with the frown
What goes round comes round
From MLK to Cascade
I know it's through them plenty figures
Cocaine dealers walk the wrong side
Up in they rides looking cleaner then I seen
Them the last time
Then selling dimes, now it's quarter ki's
Stacking G's in the South Indies
My nigga them folks riding
Bicycles among vehicles off in the hood
Knowing each and every nigga selling
But can you blame the fact the only way a
Brother can survive the game
The block hard to get by the dope dealing
Fatal killings, and fed time
To writing rhymes it ain't just the police
We kill each other just lost another brother
Fast living will get you took
Thinking it can't happen to you
And then it do
Off crooked schemes it's just a dream
Floating face down in the mainstream

Think it is when it ain't
All peaches and cream
That's why some are found floating
Face down in the mainstream

They swan diving
As if they name be Gretchen von Ivan
Volkoff rushin' to finish their album
Then you find them
Lost dog paddling, backstroking
What done happened?
Be rhyming "catch of the day" when
The recipe calls for "blackened"
Wrong ingredients
Maybe too much herbs and spices
Maybe you got hungry for the wrong dish
Of them greens and it's enticing
How them Jones's sing
So I'm gonna sing just like them
To get where they at
I'll even break my by back
To touch their rim, if I gotta
My alta mater be that I follow
I bite whatever that's looking tasty
Water it down and then swallow
I hope you vomit
Won't call no names cause that's not my job
It just applies to whom it may concern
You know who you are
But if you don't you never will
You just receive the steel
But then it might get ugly 'cause
Trust me niggas do feel
The way that I felt when I wrote this
But we must stay in focus
We kings and queens up in this thing
Get rid of all them jokers
Face down, face down, face down

Think it is when it ain't
All peaches and cream
That's why some are found floating
Face down in the mainstream

I let you stay in my crib
Now you know where I live
When you was hungry, fed you a hot meal
Look at the hand you deal
Me crudball business, niggas giving
Inches, so here, take a foot
Luck only counts in rabbit's
Feet and horseshoes
Experience is sometimes the
Best teacher until we get our own plate
I hope you don't mind me eating off of yours
Process sm-m-moking like Jerry
Meanwhile, fairies up the street sprinkling
Pixie dust over greenery
Never to attain another level of conscience
Only to test, the potency why laying here
They scheme over one another mouth to feed
Deceased with a decision to make
Now words shake your destiny
But one miss will take it all the way
Just as quick as you can say
"I wish I never did what I did
" now face this bid
It was the company you kept
The many places you slept
When you shouldn't have, geeking like a rat
Jumping like a trap
Contributing to sin and your nigga bitch in
The club showing pink for 10
They got you niggas where they want you again
Floating face down in the mainstream
That's why, that's why, that's why

Think it is when it ain't
All peaches and cream
That's why some are found floating
Face down in the mainstream

Everybody's a player
Wearing them Kangols on their head
Thinking it's all about your clothes, nigga
It's all about your self
The way you feel about your life
The times that you done shared with
Your friends and family
Up and down like hoes give head
To dicks, oh, six, serving them in the mix
But ain't no mystery
You know the history about this clique, bitch
Oh, what, you want me to call you slut?
Then why you fucking all them niggas letting
Them all up in your guts
But see that AIDS I'm afraid that's
Why I play the quiet role i lay in the cut
Every month thinking I'll let that fire roll
Like chimneys, and smoke signals
Maybe peace pipes even
My partners call me Big Boi and
My first name is not Steven
In the mainstream
Home team banging them with these hit's
In the mix
Flowing like some motherfucking swordfish

Think it is when it ain't
All peaches and cream
That's why some are found floating
Face down in the mainstream
Think it is when it ain't
All peaches and cream
That's why some are found floating
Face down in the mainstream
Think it is when it ain't
All peaches and cream
That's why some are found floating
Face down in the mainstream
Think it is when it ain't
All peaches and cream
That's why some are found floating
Face down in the mainstream