Crumblin’ Erb Lyrics
[Verse 1: André 3000]
Yes, sir, let me dig into your brain, folks falling like rain
Poverty got me selling things, guess I'm gon' explain
Jane is rolled up, no gangs be throwed up
But still, André got action, they sweat like Keith, all on my teeth
I take it upon myself to handle mine
Thinking that you gots ample time to do this
Have you shot? I thought you knew this
I'm crumbling, no time for fumbling
Selling my sacks, watching my back
Wetting 'em up like splish, leaving 'em in a splash
Of blood, the clock is ticking, niggas from my block is missing
I'm putting it down like it be hot before we all get shot
Got only so much time in this bastard
Bitter be claiming pro, but I be saying they procrastinating
Settling for less
Better be ready when they roll up in your nest and sink one in your chest
And you's gone, up out of here for good
Y'all be bobbin' back and forth to let me know you understood
Yeah, what's up?
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Yes, sir, let me dig into your brain, folks falling like rain
Poverty got me selling things, guess I'm gon' explain
Jane is rolled up, no gangs be throwed up
But still, André got action, they sweat like Keith, all on my teeth
I take it upon myself to handle mine
Thinking that you gots ample time to do this
Have you shot? I thought you knew this
I'm crumbling, no time for fumbling
Selling my sacks, watching my back
Wetting 'em up like splish, leaving 'em in a splash
Of blood, the clock is ticking, niggas from my block is missing
I'm putting it down like it be hot before we all get shot
Got only so much time in this bastard
Bitter be claiming pro, but I be saying they procrastinating
Settling for less
Better be ready when they roll up in your nest and sink one in your chest
And you's gone, up out of here for good
Y'all be bobbin' back and forth to let me know you understood
Yeah, what's up?
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
[Verse 2: Big Boi]
So check me out, see
Once in a while, when niggas be trying to test me, I gets frisky
Grab a pint of golden whiskey
Then they swing but, shit, they missed me, huh
I'm getting nice with them things because I do like that
You heard me on the radio and, yes, my man, I'm true to that
I run my lyrics the way y'all wanna hear 'em
And shoot my dice against the bricks the way I wanna flicks 'em
Nigga, so ring around the roses, diamonds around my neck from flexing
But I'm running niggas over like a ninety-four Lexus, test it
Ten millimeters, count 'em, nigga, fuck a nine
See, I added a millimeter for y'all niggas doing crimes
And drive-bys, kiss your ass bye-bye, sayonara, suckers
I flipped the script and turned the page, ain't scared of you motherfuckers
Be popping shots like them hoes be popping coochies
And I still be spreading bullets like them freaks be spreading cooties
So look here niggas, I'm hunting Red October
I said my shit and ran my lyrics and now my verse is over
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
So check me out, see
Once in a while, when niggas be trying to test me, I gets frisky
Grab a pint of golden whiskey
Then they swing but, shit, they missed me, huh
I'm getting nice with them things because I do like that
You heard me on the radio and, yes, my man, I'm true to that
I run my lyrics the way y'all wanna hear 'em
And shoot my dice against the bricks the way I wanna flicks 'em
Nigga, so ring around the roses, diamonds around my neck from flexing
But I'm running niggas over like a ninety-four Lexus, test it
Ten millimeters, count 'em, nigga, fuck a nine
See, I added a millimeter for y'all niggas doing crimes
And drive-bys, kiss your ass bye-bye, sayonara, suckers
I flipped the script and turned the page, ain't scared of you motherfuckers
Be popping shots like them hoes be popping coochies
And I still be spreading bullets like them freaks be spreading cooties
So look here niggas, I'm hunting Red October
I said my shit and ran my lyrics and now my verse is over
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
[Verse 3: Big Boi]
Woo, Big Boi
Got a Tampa Nugget blunt box, it's empty
That's where the herb be dropping, it's simply marvelous, time is ticking
But some of that time when I be laying vocals in the Dungeon
Sugar Bear and Mone be smoking ounces like it ain't nothing
It ain't shit to take another hit, so hit it
Of the cannabis sativa, weed, reefer, yeah, smoke shit
It's all day, every day 'til they label me deceased
So fire up another one and smoke out and fuck the world, peace
[Verse 4: André 3000]
We is gonna smoke out until we choke out
Like some merry men, cowards, I be buryin'
Coming around my shop with that, see, nigga, you gets nothing
Just like DJ do the cutting, I be having your posse ducking
Nothing but king shit, I am asking, sucker, can you hang?
That player with the pepper throwing salt off in your game
Sprinkle, sprinkle, motherfucker, don't be crying on me
That southern cess be in my chest until I'm chillin' in peace, yeah
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Woo, Big Boi
Got a Tampa Nugget blunt box, it's empty
That's where the herb be dropping, it's simply marvelous, time is ticking
But some of that time when I be laying vocals in the Dungeon
Sugar Bear and Mone be smoking ounces like it ain't nothing
It ain't shit to take another hit, so hit it
Of the cannabis sativa, weed, reefer, yeah, smoke shit
It's all day, every day 'til they label me deceased
So fire up another one and smoke out and fuck the world, peace
[Verse 4: André 3000]
We is gonna smoke out until we choke out
Like some merry men, cowards, I be buryin'
Coming around my shop with that, see, nigga, you gets nothing
Just like DJ do the cutting, I be having your posse ducking
Nothing but king shit, I am asking, sucker, can you hang?
That player with the pepper throwing salt off in your game
Sprinkle, sprinkle, motherfucker, don't be crying on me
That southern cess be in my chest until I'm chillin' in peace, yeah
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
[Interlude: Big Boi]
Ah, shit now
Coming in like two fat hoes sitting off on Corn Flakes
Dropping these things like French fries in hot grease
Big Gipp, Goodie Mob, P.A., OutKast
The J-O-I, just to let y'all niggas know
Forever pimping, never slipping, that's how it is
That's how it's gon' be, that's how it was in the past
That's how it's gon' be in the futures, nigga
It's all day, every day, so what you wanna do with it?
Bring that shit on, know what I'm saying? Yeah
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Ah, shit now
Coming in like two fat hoes sitting off on Corn Flakes
Dropping these things like French fries in hot grease
Big Gipp, Goodie Mob, P.A., OutKast
The J-O-I, just to let y'all niggas know
Forever pimping, never slipping, that's how it is
That's how it's gon' be, that's how it was in the past
That's how it's gon' be in the futures, nigga
It's all day, every day, so what you wanna do with it?
Bring that shit on, know what I'm saying? Yeah
[Chorus: Sleepy Brown]
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
Niggas killing niggas they don't understand (That's the master plan)
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
There's only so much time left in this crazy world
I'm just crumblin' herb, I'm just crumblin' herb
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Big Boi and Dre plead the ghetto youth to sit back and smoke a blunt instead of constantly shooting at each other on this cut off of Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
This beat consists of bongos sampled from the 1974 Isaac Hayes song “Joe Bell,” trippy synth, electric piano, funky guitar riffs, a cool bassline and relaxed drums.
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Bosstown Recording Studio & Doppler Studios (Atlanta)
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April 26, 1994
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