Thought Process (feat. André 3000)

[00:11.69] Let me get a chop at this lumber niggas
[00:13.82] From da down underground are hangin' around the A-Town
[00:16.64] Lookin' for a come up, workin' from 9 to 5
[00:19.18] Just to get some change so T-Mo can stay alive
[00:21.55] Not greedy or living' lavish yet but you can bet that when I do
[00:25.13] Nobody from my crew will I forget
[00:27.53] And if I start to get large and come up on some change
[00:29.68] I won't change, everybody know they down
[00:31.85] It's not the same, everyday life can be different
[00:34.95] These laws got me ready to ball
[00:36.37] Cause I fall a victim so I still be slanging them fat pillows
[00:39.72] To make 'em meet, each and every day as I comb my city streets
[00:41.91] Sometimes I wish I never had been apart of this mess
[00:45.01] Cause the system got us fucked up
[00:47.44] It put us to the test, women and men if you black you in
[00:50.46] Food for the soul listen to what I tell you it don't matter
[00:53.02] Young or old it's time we loc' up and do like we suppose
[00:56.22] We killin' each other over this bullshit and some clothes
[00:59.53] We're trapped off in this world and society with no place else to go
[01:03.21] So how U feel?
[01:08.17] Frustrated, irritated, sometimes I don't know myself I be too numb
[01:10.22] To feel something sometimes so I dig deep, get in the Cherokee
[01:15.03] Let my mind fly free into the wilderness so I can get this shit off my
[01:19.83] Mind
[01:20.68] That's why I be smokin' that dank sometimes, it keeps me from snappin'
[01:24.55] Keeps me calm, keeps my mind open, keeps me fond of what I gots to do
[01:29.99] Off in the studio to get my old burd back on her feet, and my little
[01:34.04] Bro'
[01:35.09] In Statesboro and my little cuz Mark Twain, all my
[01:37.77] Folks that hang with me when I was out in the trap or when I was goin'
[01:41.88] Thru one of our episodes, only god knows, whut I go thru so I get down
[01:47.48] On my knees, sometimes I come home too high to pray, but I get on my bed
[01:48.30] Lay on my back and meditate, anyway, in the ceilings, the four walls,
[01:54.93] It's
[01:55.67] Like cell therapy I got nothing to do but write about my L-I-F-E, put it
[02:00.16] Down on paper... So whut chu feel?
[02:04.46] I live for today, motherfuck another hour, it might be sour
[02:07.11] Never know my day, so I'm prayin' in the shower
[02:09.24] Look up and thank the Lord for forgiveness, a witness to bad
[02:12.52] I'm lookin' for good in the Southwest, God bless my neighborhood
[02:15.57] It's people killin' in da street to eat
[02:17.81] Surviving the day is the only goat that I set
[02:20.25] Just to make it home, I'm not alone
[02:22.48] Someone's out to get me when I haven't done shit wrong
[02:24.83] My head felt swoll, mista couldn't see past my mouth
[02:27.69] What route did you take man
[02:29.15] Caught me by that loops of my pants
[02:30.86] Got me on the curb lettin' tha traffic pass me by
[02:33.01] No questions I said nothing
[02:34.88] Lookin' for tha mutant to be buckin'
[02:36.67] Tha law naw, man Gipp show him my shit
[02:38.89] Close my mouth then I dip
[02:40.11] See to me G is a person who understand tha plan
[02:42.40] Can't make no moves when you in tha hands of tha man
[02:45.32] They got some new suites down Peachtree
[02:47.19] Left wing for tha Feds, right wing for tha hardheads
[02:50.06] Makin' more deals than Buddy Folks made with Hartsfield
[02:52.72] Somebody don't want my face in tha place, for 96 shit's slick
[02:55.83] Got me clean, lookin' fresh, dogs be scratchin' at my chest
[02:58.85] Under the order of who? Guess who ain't non-iller than miller
[03:01.80] Wanna 1, 2 your ass no more life what you gave was tha past
[03:05.41] Cuz ain't no future wanna millicamp your case
[03:07.64] Disgrace your face, make it seem to be safe
[03:10.20] But ain't no place to run...
[03:16.34] Sometimes I don't even know how I'm gon' eat
[03:18.72] 'Bout twenty dollars away from being on the street
[03:21.47] Shit, you might see a nigga on tv
[03:23.91] But hell it's almost like I'm rappin' for free
[03:25.83] That little money be gone... got dammit, I'm grown
[03:29.32] Gotta help keep the heat and tights on
[03:31.73] It would be nice to have mo' but I kinda like being po'
[03:35.01] At least I know what my friends here fo'
[03:37.44] I wanna lie to you sometimes, but I can't
[03:40.08] I wanna tell you that it's all good, but it ain't
[03:41.90] It's nigga's hurtin' and uncertain 'bout if they gon' make it or not
[03:45.58] That's why we got nigga's killing
[03:47.18] Feelin like they coming up off a little dope they sold
[03:49.95] You can get some gold but we won't make it as a whole
[03:52.24] Cause without you there'd be no me
[03:54.69] And without no unity there will never be any happiness
[03:57.94] You could smoke a pound of sess and it still won't relieve yo' stress
[04:01.71] God bless my... thought process
[04:04.59] The thought process...
[04:07.45] Now as an Outkast I was born, wasn't warned of the harm
[04:09.82] That would come to meet me like Met Life, but yet life
[04:12.22] Done sent me through a lot of up's and down like it ain't nothing'
[04:15.14] Like elevators but I ain't the one that's pushin' the buttons
[04:17.78] I got off at the 13th floor, when they told me that it wasn't one
[04:20.74] They said it skipped from 12 to 14
[04:22.98] Still smoking, still drinking, no I'm sittin' on the Lincoln
[04:25.44] 4 A.M. thinkin' that in reality the world is like a ball full of playas
[04:30.54] We trapped off in this maze with walls made of layers
[04:33.19] And only prayers is the tightest game that you can have
[04:35.79] The devil's takin' a swing that might explain the broken glass
[04:38.15] But my crystal ball see the pistol fall to the wayside
[04:40.84] Nobody would die in cops and robbers when we used to play right
[04:43.51] Huh, the only thang we feared was Williams, Wayne
[04:46.33] Never though about hittin' licks or slangin' caine
[04:48.66] Didn't think I'd be the one to give in to abortion
[04:51.15] Label me murder because my ass is scorchin'
[04:53.75] Hot from the glock that sits under my seat
[04:55.70] Yeah, it's real fucked up that my floks come to get me
[04:58.46] And it's like dat, yeah... and it's like dem!
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