Stressed Out
A Tribe Called Quest

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


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

Shatan got you caught in the storms of December

And brothers on the block packin' nines like September

Crazy situations keeps pockets on slender


Yo, I be on the avenue where they be actin' brand new

I'm splurgin' on these Reebok joints for shorty boo

All of a sudden, I saw these two kids frontin'

Talkin' out they joints but they wasn't sayin' 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 makin' these cats look silly

Flamin', steady, runnin' off at the Willie

I had my cash mixed, my rent due, with my play-dough

I gotta see some loot so all my girls I blow

Shook them shits in my palm let 'em hit the flo'

Kept my eyeballs scopin' for them pigs po-po

I got to go on the ave, see my parole by fo'

But I gotta steady freak these boys like Jo Jo


And I was doin it til I met Ike, Spike and Mike

One roll, they had my pockets thirstier than Sprite

Yo, I know the feelin' when you feelin' like a villain

You be havin' good thoughts but the evils be revealin'

And the stresses of life can take you off the right path

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 N.W.O., low cash flow

Your baby's on the way and you don't know who

And crosstown niggaz tryin' 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 hittin' Queens, niggaz 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 whip cream before the water runs dry


Niggaz flashdancin', yo, I don't know why

You're sick of snitchin', she got you cruisin' to the pokey like Smokey

The stress be tryin' to squeeze out a homey

While I be tryin' to get star status like Shinobi

So we can build a dynasty just like the Colby

And all I want is the world to know my steez

These money hungry niggaz is seven thirty

And got me stressed out like these frog MC's


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 gonna make it

Don't worry, we gonna make it

Don't worry, we gonna make it

We gonna make it


Don't worry, we gonna make it

We're gonna make it

Don't worry, we gonna make it

We gonna make it


Don't worry, we gonna make it

Don't worry, we gonna make it

Don't worry, we gonna make it

We gonna make it


Don't worry, we gonna make it

I know we gonna make it

Don't worry, we gonna make it

We gonna make it


Don't worry, we gonna make it

We gonna make it

We gonna make it

Know we're gonna make it


We gonna make it, gonna make it

We gonna make it, know we gonna make it

We gonna make it


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