Mainstream lyrics

Artist  : Outkast 
Song : Mainstream
 
[Verse 1:]

Revolutionary, scary
Thought provoking, spoken,
Words of a chain I don't feel but I see, 
visions from me
at twenty three making us 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 till 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 M.L.K. to
cascade
I know its 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 its quarter keys,
stacking G's
In the South Indies 
my nigga them folks riding bicycles among
vehicles
off in the hood
Knowing each and every nigger sellin', 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
in fair times so 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 its just a dream 
floating face down in the mainstream

[Chorus:]

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream
that's why some are found floating face down in
the main stream

[Verse 2:]

They swan divin'
fit they name be thrashing an album
go-kart rushin' to finish their album then you
find them
lost, dog paddling, back stroking, what done
happened?
be rhymin' catching the day when the recipe calls
for black and
wrong ingredients,
maybe too much herbs and spices, 
maybe you got hungry for the wrong dish 
southern greens and this entice them how them
joke the same
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 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

[Chorus]

[Verse 3:]

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 giving niggers 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 momma moping like jerry
meanwhile, fairies of the street tinkling pixie
dust over greenery
never to obtain another level of con-science
only to test, to poke and see
why laying here, they scheme over one another
mouth to feed
??? with a decision to make, now words shake your
destiny
but a missle 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 bit*h in the
court showing paper thin
got you niggers where they want you again,
floating face down in the mainstream
thats why, thats why, thats why

[Chorus]

[Verse 4:]

Everybody's a player, rubbin them kangols on
their head
thinking its all about your clothes, nigger its
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 bit*h
oh, what, you want me to call you slut?
then why you f**king all them niggers 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 hits
in the mix flowing like some motherf**king
swordfish

[Chorus x4]