Aquemini

[00:01.40] Yuh
[00:08.28] Uh-huh
[00:10.24] Even the sun goes down, heroes eventually die
[00:14.16] Horoscopes often lie
[00:16.06] And sometimes, "Y"
[00:17.41] Nothing is for sure, nothing is for certain
[00:20.09] Nothing lasts forever, but until they close the curtain
[00:22.93] (Y'all know)
[00:24.52] It's him and I, Aquemini
[00:41.17] Yeah
[00:42.93] Now is the time to get on-like Spike Lee said, Get On The Bus
[00:45.53] Go get your work and keep your beeper chirping, it's a must
[00:48.24] Is you on that dust or corn starch? Familiar with that smack, man?
[00:51.04] The music is like that green stuff, provided to you by sack-man
[00:53.69] Pac-Man, how in the fuck you think we gon' do that, man?
[00:56.39] Riding 'round Old National on 18s without no gat, man
[00:58.99] I'm strapped, man
[00:59.86] And ready to bust on any nigga like that, man
[01:01.66] Me and my nigga, we roll together like Batman and Robin
[01:04.34] We prayed together through hard times, swung hard when it was fitting
[01:07.04] But now, we tapping the brakes from all them corners that we be bending
[01:09.65] In Volkswagens and Bonnevilles, Chevrolets and Coupe de Villes
[01:12.32] If you ain't got no rims, nigga, don't get no wood-grain steering wheel
[01:15.18] For real (real)
[01:15.69] You can go on and chill out, and still build
[01:17.30] Let your paper stack, 'stead of going into overkill
[01:19.15] And pay your fuckin' beeper bill, bitch!
[01:21.41] Yeah
[01:22.97] Yuh, yuh (yeah)
[01:25.46] Even the sun goes down, heroes eventually die
[01:29.18] Horoscopes often lie
[01:31.18] And sometimes, "Y"
[01:32.64] Nothing is for sure, nothing is for certain
[01:35.40] And nothing lasts forever, but until they close the curtain
[01:39.73] It's him and I, Aquemini
[01:47.10] Twice upon a time, there was a boy who died
[01:49.83] Lived happily ever after, but that's another chapter
[01:52.53] Live from "Home of the Brave," with dirty dollars
[01:55.35] Beauty parlors, baby ballers, bowling-ball Impalas
[01:58.75] Street scholars, majoring in culinary arts
[02:01.71] You know, how to work bread, cheese, and dough, from scratch
[02:05.17] But, see, the catch is you can get caught
[02:06.88] Know what you selling, what you bought, so, cut that big talk
[02:09.66] Let's walk to the bridge, meet me halfway
[02:12.30] Now you may see some children dead off in the pathway
[02:14.98] It's them poor babies, walking slowly to the candy lady
[02:17.85] It's looking bad
[02:18.69] Need some hope, like the words "maybe," "if," or "probably"
[02:21.65] More than a hobby
[02:22.52] When my turntables get wobbly, they don't fall
[02:24.72] I'm sorry, y'all, I often drift, I'm talking gift
[02:27.48] So when it comes, you never look the horse inside its grill
[02:30.17] Of course, you know I feel like the bearer of bad news
[02:33.14] Don't want to be it, but it's needed, so what have you?
[02:35.56] Now, question, Is every nigga with dreads for the cause?
[02:38.55] Is every nigga with golds for the fall? Naw
[02:41.45] So don't get caught up in appearance
[02:43.21] It's OutKast, 'Aquemini', another Black experience
[02:55.46] Okay
[02:56.61] Even the sun goes down, heroes eventually die
[03:00.27] Horoscopes often lie
[03:02.53] And sometimes, "Y"
[03:03.99] Nothing is for sure, nothing is for certain
[03:06.22] Nothing lasts forever, but until they close the curtain
[03:10.95] It's him and I, Aquemini
[03:18.12] The name is Big Boi, Daddy Fat Sax, the nigga that like them Cadillacs
[03:21.22] I stay down with these streets, 'cause these streets is where my folks at
[03:23.86] Better know that, some say we pro-Black, but we professional
[03:26.56] We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional
[03:28.95] Get off the testicles and the nutsacks, you bust 'round, we bust back
[03:32.01] G-Get back, for real niggas that's out here tryna spit facts
[03:34.67] You 'ear that? You can't come near that, maybe you need to quit (quit)
[03:37.32] Because 'Aquemini' is Aquarius and the Gemini running shit
[03:39.60] Like this, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[03:40.23] My mind warps and bends, floats the wind, count to ten
[03:42.72] Meet the twin, André Ben', welcome to the lion's den
[03:45.57] Original skin, many men comprehend
[03:47.99] I extend myself, so you go out and tell a friend
[03:50.71] Sin all depends on what you believing in
[03:53.22] Faith is what you make it, that's the hardest shit since MC Ren
[03:56.42] Alien can blend right on in with your kin
[03:58.72] Look again, 'cause I swear, I spot one every now and then
[04:01.70] It's happening again, wish I could tell you when
[04:04.19] "André, this is André, y'all are just gon' have to make amends"
[04:06.67] Even the sun goes down, heroes eventually die
[04:10.16] Horoscopes often lie
[04:12.24] And sometimes, "Y"
[04:13.62] Nothing is for sure, nothing is for certain
[04:16.17] And nothing lasts forever, but until they close the curtain
[04:20.12] It's him and I, Aquemini
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