[00:00.00]Stressed Out -A Tribe Called Quest [00:02.691]Lyrics by:Kamaal Fareed/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Dexter Mills/Gary Taylor [00:05.382]Composed by:Kamaal Fareed/Ali Shaheed Muhammad/Dexter Mills/Gary Taylor [00:08.73]Faith Evans: [00:10.765]I really know how it feels to be stressed out stressed out [00:16.78]When you're face to face with your adversity [00:21.224]I really know how it feels to be stressed out stressed out [00:26.414]We're gonna make this thing work out eventually [00:30.599]Consequence/Q-Tip: [00:31.815]Yo I ain't one to complain but there's things in the game [00:34.368]What's your name [00:35.167]Consequence I'm tight burnt like flames [00:36.851]And why's that [00:37.667]American dreams they got this ghetto kid in a fiend [00:40.203]Don't stress that cause it's not in your bloodstream [00:42.344]Your whole being comes from greatness d'you remember [00:45.173]Shaytan got you caught in the storms of December [00:47.605]And brothers on the block packing nines like September [00:50.392]Crazy situations keeps pockets on slender [00:52.596]Yo I be on the avenue where they be actin brand new [00:55.464]I'm splurging on these Reebok joints for shorty boo [00:58.37]All of a sudden I saw these two kids frontin' [01:00.881]Talking out they joints but they wasn't saying nuttin' [01:03.226]My hand was on my toolie they was actin unruly [01:05.834]Say word yo word up yo I was tight caught up [01:08.314]But I swallowed my pride and let that nonsense ride [01:11.202]Because I'm positive it seems that negative dies [01:13.506]Yo we was at the dice game making these cats look silly [01:16.392]Flamming steady running off at the Willie [01:18.971]I had my cash mixed my rent due with my play-dough [01:21.630]I gotta see some loot so on my girls I blow [01:24.30]Shook them s**ts in my palm let em hit the flo' [01:26.608]Kept my eyeballs scoping for them pigs po-po [01:29.140]I got to go on the ave see my parole by fo' [01:31.854]But I gotta steady freak these boys like JoJo [01:34.303]And I was doing it 'til I met Ike Spike and Mike [01:37.69]One roll they had my pockets thirstier than Sprite [01:39.693]Yo I know the feeling when you feeling like a villain [01:42.293]You be having good thoughts but the evils be revealin' [01:44.978]And the stresses of life can take you off the right path [01:47.596]No doubt [01:47.954]Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff [01:50.212]We gotta hold it down so we can move on past [01:52.704]All adversities so we can get through fast like that [01:55.637]I really know how it feels to be stressed out stressed out [02:00.463]When you're face to face with your adversity [02:05.561]I really know how it feels to be stressed out stressed out [02:10.783]We're gonna make this thing work out eventually [02:15.115]Consequence: [02:16.117]You got the N.W.O. [02:18.16]Low cash flow [02:18.966]Your baby's on the way [02:20.186]And you don't know who [02:21.650]And crosstown n***as trying to [02:23.124]Bust at you [02:23.997]Aiyyo they got me stressed out [02:25.339]And you don't know what to do [02:26.534]Phife Dawg: [02:26.671]Dunn-da-lie dunn-da-lo dunn-da-lie dunn-da-lee [02:29.501]Me no look for trouble but trouble done follow me [02:32.58]All I wanted to be was a illa MC [02:34.891]Ever since me was small as a youth out in Queens [02:37.166]What did you mash on de dancehall [02:39.65]All a me [02:39.685]Until my best friend caught two in him head [02:41.649]Right scene [02:42.546]And ever since that day [02:43.550]Ya not hear me [02:44.240]Things been a mess [02:45.300]R.I.P Ghosta Rock true ting God bless [02:47.419]So nowadays I go see wifey just to cure me from stress [02:50.178]Lay my head on her breast [02:51.533]Sugar dumpling knows best [02:52.823]Explaining all my problems to her getting things off my chest [02:55.312]A little hook up squeeze up and no more am I vexed [02:57.932]Ayo son without my peeps I'd be truly assed out [03:00.419]Make sure I have my medication so I wouldn't pass out [03:03.174]Native Tongues for believing in me when everyone was fessing [03:05.874]Most of all Jah Mighty for the guidance and the blessings [03:08.578]I really know how it feels to be stressed out stressed out [03:13.629]When you're face to face with your adversity [03:18.637]I really know how it feels to be stressed out stressed out [03:23.891]We're gonna make this thing work out eventually [03:28.195]Faith Evans: [03:29.619]Come on baby we gon make it [03:31.854]Gonna make it [03:32.485]Come on baby we gon make it [03:34.229]Oh yeah [03:34.874]Come on baby we gon make it [03:36.904]Gonna make it [03:38.176]We gon make it [03:39.593]Gotta make it [03:40.304]Come on baby we gon make it [03:42.79]Gonna make it [03:43.39]We're gonna make it [03:44.672]We're gonna make it [03:45.690]Come on baby we gon make it [03:47.137]We're gonna make it [03:48.276]We're gonna make it [03:49.869]Ohhhhhhh [03:50.604]Come on baby we gon make it [03:52.604]Ohhhhhhh [03:53.191]Come on baby we gon make it [03:55.140]Gonna make it [03:56.140]Come on baby we gon make it [03:57.693]Ohhhhhhh [03:59.124]We gon make it [03:59.920]Ahaowwhwwww [04:01.44]Come on baby we gon make it [04:02.952]Ahahwwww [04:03.313]I know we're gonna make it [04:05.216]We're gonna make it [04:06.584]Come on baby we gon make it [04:08.884]Yeahhhh [04:09.652]We gon make it [04:10.815]Yeahhahhahhhh [04:11.574]Come on baby we gon make it [04:14.402]We're gonna make it [04:17.20]We've gotta make it [04:19.253]I know we're gonna make it [04:22.180]We're gonna make it gonna make it [04:27.644]We gotta make it I know we gonna make it [04:33.708]Gotta make it oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah