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Description
Associated Performer: OutKast
Composer, Lyricist: Andre Benjamin
Composer, Lyricist: Antwan Patton
Composer, Lyricist: David Sheats
Producer: Earthtone III
Lyrics and translation
Original
Yeah, in Slum National
Underground thunder pounds when I stomp the ground
Like a million elephants or silverback orangutans
You can't stop a train
Who want some? Don't come unprepared
I'll be there, but when I leave there
Better be a household name
Weathermen telling us it ain't gon' rain
So now we sitting in a drop-top soaking wet
In a silk suit trying not to sweat
Hitting somersaults without the net
But this be the year that we won't forget
1-9-9-9, Anno Domini
Anything goes, be what you wanna be
Long as you know consequences are given for living
The fence is too high to jump in jail
Too low to dig, I might just touch hell
Hot, get a life, now they on sale
Then I might cast you a spell
Look at what came in the mail
A scaleless arm and hammer
Soul-gold grill and a baby mama
Black Cadillac and a pack of Pampers
Stack of questions with no answers
Cure for cancer, cure for AIDS
Make a nigga wanna stay on tour for days
Get back home, things are wrong
Well, not really, it was bad all along
Before you left, ass up to a ball of power
Thoughts at a thousand miles per hour
Hello, ghetto, let your brain breathe
Believe there's always more, ow
Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), yeah, ha, ha, yeah
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), yeah, ah-ha
Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), ha, ha, ha, yeah
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah)
Uno, dos, tres, it's on
Did you ever think a pimp rock a microphone
Like that there, boy, and would still stay street?
Big things happen every time we meet
Like a track team crash, can't die in a geek
OutKast bumping up and down the street
Slant back Cadillac, 'bout five niggas deep
75 MCs freestyling to the beat
'Cause we get crunk, stay drunk at the club
Should've bought an ounce, but you copped a dub
Should've held back, but you throwed a punch
'Posed to meet your girl, but you packed a lunch
No D to the U to the G for you
Got a son on the way by the name of Bamboo
Got a little baby girl, four-year, Jordan
Never turn my back on my kids for them
Should've hit it, quit it, rag-top
'Fore you re-up, get a laptop
Make a million for yourself, boy, set some goals
Make a fat diamond out of dusty coal
Wrecking number four, but we on a roll
Hold up, slow up, stop, "Control"
Like Janet, Planet, Stankonia's on ya
Moving like Floyd, come straight to Florida
Lock all your windows, then block the corridors
Pulling off my belt 'cause a whip is in order
Like a three-piece fist 'fore I cut your daughter
Yo quiero Taco Bell, then I hit the border
Pitty-pat rappers trying to get to five
But my microphone fiend trying to stay alive
When you come to ATL, boy, you better not hide
'Cause the Dudley family gon' ride, ha
Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), oh, yeah
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), ah, yeah
Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), y'all heard me, yeah
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah)
So Slum, so Slime, nigga, I'm straight gutter
You can ask my baby mother, she gon' be like, "Nigga shit
He the type to fuck a chick and rob that bitch's baby brother"
And I'm the type to cut your bitch and keep the shit up under cover
Confessions, blessings, living in sin
A few new recruits, we pimping again
Three grams of hard, we flipping again
Now I'm walking dubs on the Benz, yeah
One, two crack fiends
Three dope boys in creased jeans
Four po-po's done hit the scene
Five hot traps on MLK
Lock a thick ho inside 16s
Rubberice, she empty cream
Fuck her right, she'll moan, scream
'Til it's past, still a cow on me
Niggas swerving, serving, bouncing, and bucking
Like a 5.59, still crumping something
Heat too hot, now the semi-rounds are dumping
Grind out the hip when the trap ain't jumping
Keep one bitch nigga just for sucking
Ain't coming out the block banging, I'm down for busting
Come on, come on, yeah, yeah
One, two, come on, yeah
Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), oh, yeah
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), ah, yeah
Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah), y'all heard me, yeah
Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something
(Bombs over Baghdad, yeah)
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah