Mainstream

Uh, ya'll know what it is

Uh, ya'll know what it is

Uh, ya'll know what it is

Revolutionary, scary

Thought provoking, spoken

Words of a change I don't feel but I see

Visions from me at twenty-three

Making it 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 'til I get with

Adapt and overcome, oh-hum-hum

Go get my gun, load up for fun, and put it 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 dimes, now it's quarter ki's, stacking G's

In the South Indies, my ****, them folks riding bicycles

Among vehicles off in the hood

Knowing each and every **** selling, but can you blame?

It's a fact, the only way a brother can survive the game

The block hard to get by the dope dealing

Fatal killings, and fed time, to 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 (The mainstream)

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream

That's why some are found floating face down in the mainstream

They swan diving, fit they name be Gretchen von Ivan

Volkoff rushin' to finish their album then you find them

Lost, dog paddling, backstroking, what done happened?

Be rhyming catch of the day when the recipe calls for blackened wrong ingredients

Maybe too much herbs and spices, maybe you got hungry for the wrong dish

Of them greens, and it's enticing how them Jones's sing

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 alma mater be that I follow

I bite whatever that's looking tasty, water it down and 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 **** 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

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream

That's why some are found floating face down in the mainstream

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 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 sm-m-moking like Jerry

Meanwhile, fairies up the street, sprinkling pixie dust over greenery

Never to attain another level of conscience, only to test the potency

Why laying here? They scheme over one another mouth to feed

Deceased with a decision to make, now words shake your destiny

But one miss will take it all away, 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 **** bitch in the club showing pink for ten

They got you **** where they want you again

Floating face down in the mainstream

That's why, that's why, that's why

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream

That's why some are found floating face down in the mainstream

Everybody's a player, wearing them Kangols on their head

Thinking it's all about your clothes, ****, it's all about yourself

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, bitch

Oh-oh, what-what, you don't want me to call you slut?

But why you fucking all them **** letting them all up in your guts

But see that AIDS I'm afraid, I think 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 Boy and my first name is not Steven

In the mainstream, home team banging them with these hits

In the mix, mix, flowing like some motherfuckin' swordfish

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream

That's why some are found floating face down in the mainstream

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream

That's why some are found floating face down in the mainstream

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream

That's why some are found floating face down in the mainstream

Think it is when it ain't all peaches and cream