Verse 1:

Revolutionaryscary
Thought provokingspoken
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 overcomeoh hum hum
Go get my gunload up for funand put down with the frown
What goes round comes round from m.l.k. 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 dimesnow it s quarter keysstacking 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 dealingfatal 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 it s 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
Lostdog paddlingback strokingwhat 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 tastywater it down then swallow
I hope you vomitwon 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 willyou just receive the steel
But then it might get ugly cause trust me niggas do feel
The way that I felt when I wrote thisbut we must stay in focus
We kings and queens up in this thingget rid of all them jokers
Face downface downface down

chorus

Verse 3:

I let you stay in my cribnow you know where I live
When you was hungryfed you a hot meallook at the hand you deal
Me crudball business giving niggers inches so heretake 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
Meanwhilefairies of the street tinkling pixie dust over greenery
Never to obtain another level of con-science
Only to testto poke and see
Why laying herethey scheme over one another mouth to feed
? ? ? with a decision to makenow 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 keptthe many places you slept
When you shouldn t havegeeking like a ratjumping like a trap
Contributing to sin and your nigga bitch in the court showing paper thin
Got you niggers where they want you again
Floating face down in the mainstream
Thats whythats whythats why

chorus


Verse 4:

Everybody s a playerrubbin them kangols on their head
Thinking it s all about your clothesnigger it s all about your self
The way you feel about your lifethe times that you done shared with
Your friends and familyup and down like hoes give head
To dicks ohsixserving them in the mixbut ain t no mystery
You know the history about this clique bitch
Ohwhatyou want me to call you slut?
Then why you fucking 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 cutevery month thinking I ll let that fire roll
Like chimneysand smoke signalsmaybe peace pipes even
My partners call me big boi and my first name is not steven
In the mainstreamhome team banging them with these hits
In the mix flowing like some motherfucking swordfish

chorus x4

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