Outbreed (1997)

[Verse 1: The R.O.C.]
I should've seen it coming, ain't no way out, I can't live it down
I'm all caught up in this game called rap, let's see now
I'll begin back in '88, the Osbourne days
[Lunch, with?] beat boxin' and rappin', now I'm gettin' paid
It's more critical, the sh** is gettin' life threatenin'
I can't calm my nerves without talkin' to Smith and Wesson
These traumas of life leaves me stuck in a daze
Am I the outbreed just because my mind strays?
Take on the big leagues, I'm gettin' with these headhunters
Don't give a damn of where you come from or whеre you goin', sucker
So I'll work the gravе shift to keep my head on tight
Stayin' out of sight and dodgin' all these would-be fights
From these jealous old fools that ain't got much to live for
Take me out, they got life with parole
And I'm dead and gone, six feet, with nothing in hand
Just the outbreed back from the dead, man

[Chorus]
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)

[Verse 2: Hektic]
My whole life's a bad set-up, nothing to let up, so I'm on my way
I stop and think, who's gon' stereotype today?
I roam the streets so many times that I call it my home
I chill with thugs in hoods, never seen alone
I gotta do what I gotta do, fearin' no stranger
Label me danger, packin' a thang with an itchy trigger finger
Now you can label me the outbreed
My mind speaks the ghetto 'til I die, so who's next, please
So many tests, but they know they can't lose
Lethal injection of rap skills infect you
I'm down for mine, never leavin' from the hood that I came
It's all good as I sit up, rackin' my brain
My mind's a puzzle of a time bomb, kinda clever
Stressin' me out over nothin', come on, let's put it together
Detroit's the city where my roots will always bleed
Keepin' my distance from you suckers, call me the outbreed

[Chorus]
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)

[Verse 3: Mr. Bones]
Somebody spark up the [ism?], my nerves are shot from dealin' with these attitudes
Every day is hard to live, so tell me what I'm suppose to do
Survivin' the game is simple and plain, I grew up on the dark side
The east side of D-town, portrait of the high time
Where crime is a common everyday factor
Smoke from the barrel like a nuclear reactor
You gotta go with the flow or you'll drown in the waves
That's on my pops, bed of roses on his early grave
Can you save the intercity youth from destruction?
The bottles and crime rate is just an introduction
The future's dim for the outbreed
It knows no color, no fate, it's invisible as the air we breathe
You think you're innocent, your ways are untouched
Born with mortal sin, and you think that that's enough
Trying to find the key to your heart
To unleash the love and trust and make a start
At the good life, but is there something good in life?
Problems of the world [fingerin'?] my mind every night
Wrong or right, I take and give whatever I need
Nothing to lose, I guess I'm just the outbreed

[Chorus]
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)
No way out, life and death situations occur
Everyday, my mind's a blur (Outbreed)