A Tribe Called Quest Lyrics

Album: Anthology

Stressed Out Lyrics

featuring Faith Evans 

Intro/Chorus: Faith Evans 

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 

Verse One: Consequence, Q-Tip 

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 JoJo 

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 (no doubt) 

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 

Chorus 

Verse Two: Consequence 

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 Toby’s 

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 

Chorus 

Outro: Faith Evans 

Don’t worry we gon make it (gonna make it) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (oh yeah) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (gonna make it) 

We gon make it (gotta make it) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (gotta make it) 

We’re gonna make it (we gotta make it) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (we gonna make it) 

We gonna make it (ohhhhhhh) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (ohhhhhhh) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (gonna make it) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (ohhhhhhh) 

We gon make it (ahaowwhwwww) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (ahahwwww) 

I know we gonna make it (we’re gonna make it) 

C’mon baby we gon make it (yeahhhh) 

We gon make it (yeahhahhahhhh) 

Don’t worry we gon make it (we’re gonna make it) 

We’ve gotta make it (we’ve gotta make it) 

We’ve gotta make it (oh yeah) 

Know we’re gonna make it 

We’re gonna make it, gonna make it, we gotta make it, know we gonna make it...