“Stressed Out” Lyrics - A Tribe Called Quest feat. Faith Evans

“Stressed Out”


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


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 packing nines like September

Crazy situations keeps pockets on slender


Yo I be on the avenue where they be actin brand new

I’m splurging on these Reebok joints for shorty boo


All of a sudden, I saw these two kids frontin’

Talking out they joints but they wasn’t saying 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 making these cats look silly

Flaming, steady running 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 scopign 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 doing it, til I met Ike, Spike, and Mike

One roll, they had my pockets thirstier than Sprite


Yo I know the feeling, when you feeling like a villain

You be having 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


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

You got the N.W.O. (low cash flow)

Your baby’s on the way (and you don’t know who)

And crosstown niggas trying 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 hitting Queens, niggas 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

Niggas flash dancing, yo, I don’t know why

You’re sick of snitching, she got you cruising to the pokey

Like Smokey, the stress be trying to squeeze out a homey

While I be trying 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 niggas is seven thirty

And got me stressed out like these frog emcees


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


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 (oh)

Don’t worry we gon make it (oh)

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

Don’t worry we gon make it (oh)

We gon make it

Don’t worry we gon make it

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

C’mon baby we gon make it (yeah)

We gon make it (yeah)

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