Lyrics about environment and stress

ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,170 Posts
edited January 2011 in Strut Central
I'm looking for a tasty quote to use on environments and stress...something along the lines of The Message or this one from Biggie:

I know how it feel to wake up fucked up
Pockets broke as hell, another rock to sell
People look at you like youse the user
Selling drugs to all the losers, mad buddha abuser
But they don't know about your stress-filled day
Baby on the way mad bills to pay
That's why you drink Tanqueray; so you can reminisce
and wish, you wasn't livin so devilish, ssshit

Doesn't have to be 4 Elementz-r.

Thanks in advance!

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  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Stress-O.K.

  • pcmrpcmr 5,591 Posts

  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects
    Livin' in the slums with bums, I said, "Now why, Treach?
    "Do it have to be like this?" Momma said I'm priceless
    So I am all worthless, starved, and it's just what being nice gets
    Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then, though
    To stop the hell, I would've ended things a while ago
    I ain't have jack but a black hat and napsack
    Four squad stolen cars and a blackjack
    Drop that, and now you want me to rap and give?
    Say somethin' positive? Well positive ain't where I live
    I live right around the corner from West Hell
    Two blocks from South Shit and, once, in a jail cell
    The sun never shone on my side of the street, see
    And only once or twice a week I would speak
    I walked alone, my state of mind was home sweet home
    I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids for cause of chrome
    Some life, it you ain't wear gold your style was old
    And you got more juice and dough for every bottle sold
    Hell no, I say there's gotta be a better way
    But hey, never gamble in a game that you can't play
    I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now
    How will I do it, how will I make it? I won't, that's how

  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,170 Posts
    O.K. - Stress was my first thought too, but then I realized that they aren't really rapping about their environments - they're more frustrated with wack emmcees and such.

    "Blood rushes my head when I come across roads
    With dead mics and wack promoted shows it's hard"

  • batmonbatmon 27,574 Posts
    ATCQ - Stressed Out

  • The_NonThe_Non 5,691 Posts
    Pharcyde-Runnin
    Masta Ace-Late Model Sedan
    Mobb Deep-Cradle To The Grave
    Naughty-Everything Gonna Be Alright

  • OK's "Maintain" should work, too.

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  • jjfad027jjfad027 1,594 Posts

  • "Inner City Blues"?

  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts

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  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
    About 50% of Z-ro's catalogue would fit the bill though this is the first one that sprang to mind:



    This is the sea of life, and I'm drowning
    I know I can swim, but feel like I keep sinking down in
    these waters and I can't breathe, I feel like I'm gonna blow it
    I can see people holding a life jacket but they won't throw it
    Entertained by my struggle and they'd love to see me die
    Why not love to see me live instead of helping my family cry?

    Etc etc

  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,170 Posts
    Thanks - some great suggestions!

    Chan - I hadn't seen the videos for the Divine Sounds and Fearless Four joints before - !!

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Junior said:
    About 50% of Z-ro's catalogue would fit the bill

    Exactly what I was going to say.


  • IFBIFB 29 Posts
    A childood favourite

  • a rat done bit my sister nell............


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