D.E.E.P. Lyrics
[Intro]
Greetings, earthling
Take me to your leader
Ooh, shit
[Chorus: André 3000]
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
[Verse 1: André 3000]
Deeper than deep dish, hammers and vogues
Deeper than sea fish in the O (Cean)
I got my gun on standby like Coast Guards
You boast hard, you'll get your salty ass crumbled like herb (Word, ayy, man)
You heard it here first, put your master plan in reverse
I ain't the one with the curse, so disperse
Yes, catching plagues, niggas catching AIDS
Niggas getting sprayed, niggas on they way
To a dead end, you won't catch me spreading no white thighs
I only see afro bitches up in my eyes
I don't eat no beef and surely not no pork
I used to drink that eight, but now I shove it down your throat
Quote, "If they kill they own folks, what you think they gonna do to you?"
I'm outcasted and claiming true
Aiming two at your motherfucking spine
No, I make that three 'cause I don't wanna hear you whine, swine
Got my folks blind like Stevie
Me be wondering when I'm gonna see the end
Andre Ben' slamming backs like King acts
Over Organized tracks full of facts
So you know that it's deep
Greetings, earthling
Take me to your leader
Ooh, shit
[Chorus: André 3000]
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
[Verse 1: André 3000]
Deeper than deep dish, hammers and vogues
Deeper than sea fish in the O (Cean)
I got my gun on standby like Coast Guards
You boast hard, you'll get your salty ass crumbled like herb (Word, ayy, man)
You heard it here first, put your master plan in reverse
I ain't the one with the curse, so disperse
Yes, catching plagues, niggas catching AIDS
Niggas getting sprayed, niggas on they way
To a dead end, you won't catch me spreading no white thighs
I only see afro bitches up in my eyes
I don't eat no beef and surely not no pork
I used to drink that eight, but now I shove it down your throat
Quote, "If they kill they own folks, what you think they gonna do to you?"
I'm outcasted and claiming true
Aiming two at your motherfucking spine
No, I make that three 'cause I don't wanna hear you whine, swine
Got my folks blind like Stevie
Me be wondering when I'm gonna see the end
Andre Ben' slamming backs like King acts
Over Organized tracks full of facts
So you know that it's deep
[Chorus: André 3000]
You wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
[Verse 2: Big Boi]
Well, you want me to get deep, well then, I will
What? What will happen if you shoot that nigga and don't kill?
He will come back and return like Lalah Hathaway
Aiming for your skull, yeah, I'm flexing on you that a-way
So if you pulling a tool, nigga, you better use it
'Cause if you threaten my life, better believe I'll be a fool with it
I don't take no shit from nobody
I gots the Goodie Mo crew right beside of me
Damn, no pain, no gain, so I'ma hurt you
Breaking knees and elbows like I used to break my curfew
My mama used to tell me if a nigga ever hit me
Just to pick up the closest thing and knock the living shit out of he
So if you run up, you get done up, I'ma end it
Throw the gun up out the window, see the corner, then I bent it
It's just so simple how we get so deep
Learn a lesson, pick up the album when it hits the streets like
You wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
[Verse 2: Big Boi]
Well, you want me to get deep, well then, I will
What? What will happen if you shoot that nigga and don't kill?
He will come back and return like Lalah Hathaway
Aiming for your skull, yeah, I'm flexing on you that a-way
So if you pulling a tool, nigga, you better use it
'Cause if you threaten my life, better believe I'll be a fool with it
I don't take no shit from nobody
I gots the Goodie Mo crew right beside of me
Damn, no pain, no gain, so I'ma hurt you
Breaking knees and elbows like I used to break my curfew
My mama used to tell me if a nigga ever hit me
Just to pick up the closest thing and knock the living shit out of he
So if you run up, you get done up, I'ma end it
Throw the gun up out the window, see the corner, then I bent it
It's just so simple how we get so deep
Learn a lesson, pick up the album when it hits the streets like
[Chorus: André 3000]
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
[Verse 3: André 3000]
No, I ain't never been pimped by the system, that's because I ain't no slave
Don't be tryin' to sunbathe, never lived off in no cave
Bloody old chap and in this head of mine is full of naps
And the only thing I know is how to fuck and how to rap (Nah)
Y'all think I'm stupid 'cause I shoots 'em up like cupid
And if you gave me a basketball, I'd show you how to shoot it
My head's polluted 'cause I'm zooted, bobbin' to the bottom
If a pair of Jordans came out, y'all'd figure that I got 'em
But, no, I don't because I don't be having funds
The gold that I am wearing is really made out of bronze
It weighs a ton and making my neck turn green
And I gots a criminal record that will never come clean
Oh, and it seems that I make babies like a rabbit
And then never taking care of them has just become a habit
I grab my tablet and get busy with the pen
Y'all could not be just like me if y'all was my twin
So you get mad and try to make me inferior
You pissing me off, I'm in that ass like interior
Oh, step in my Cadillac, let's ride through the hood
Hey, why don't you roll that window down so you can see it real good?
And take a look at all the pimps and all the pushers and the players
That's living on a wing, thin ice, and a prayer
Oh, and mayor, can I gets a little backup?
Please don't let them Dixie motherfuckers put that flag up
But let me shut up 'cause they say we equal
Whenever the fuck our record comes out in 1994
Yeah, yes, sir, it's like that
Gonna take y'all deep, so go back
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
[Verse 3: André 3000]
No, I ain't never been pimped by the system, that's because I ain't no slave
Don't be tryin' to sunbathe, never lived off in no cave
Bloody old chap and in this head of mine is full of naps
And the only thing I know is how to fuck and how to rap (Nah)
Y'all think I'm stupid 'cause I shoots 'em up like cupid
And if you gave me a basketball, I'd show you how to shoot it
My head's polluted 'cause I'm zooted, bobbin' to the bottom
If a pair of Jordans came out, y'all'd figure that I got 'em
But, no, I don't because I don't be having funds
The gold that I am wearing is really made out of bronze
It weighs a ton and making my neck turn green
And I gots a criminal record that will never come clean
Oh, and it seems that I make babies like a rabbit
And then never taking care of them has just become a habit
I grab my tablet and get busy with the pen
Y'all could not be just like me if y'all was my twin
So you get mad and try to make me inferior
You pissing me off, I'm in that ass like interior
Oh, step in my Cadillac, let's ride through the hood
Hey, why don't you roll that window down so you can see it real good?
And take a look at all the pimps and all the pushers and the players
That's living on a wing, thin ice, and a prayer
Oh, and mayor, can I gets a little backup?
Please don't let them Dixie motherfuckers put that flag up
But let me shut up 'cause they say we equal
Whenever the fuck our record comes out in 1994
Yeah, yes, sir, it's like that
Gonna take y'all deep, so go back
[Chorus: André 3000]
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like
[Verse 4: Big Boi]
I'm getting deeper than that prostitute's vagina
And pimping way more hoes than there's peoples out in China
I roll that black 'Lac with the crushed velvet interior
Niggas try to bite that shit, but their shit is inferior
We rolling thick like the Pillsbury Doughboy
And I don't give a damn, motherfucker, 'cause you know why
The Caucus Mountains and the mutant gene
You try to wipe a nigga like me slam up off the scene
You hairy bastard, work a little bit faster
Because of the shit that I done been through, I shall never call you master
You D-E-V-I-L, the cave is where you dwell
So stay up out the rain, it's beginning to smell like dog, yeah
I wonder how you would be acting if you's in my shoes
You'd probably shit your tight-ass drawers 'cause I got a short-ass fuse
So what do you really wanna do when I get militant?
Thought I was a pimp, flip the script, but you can get with it
They call me Big Boi, I be capping with a big gun
Run up on it if you want it, then you bite the big one, yeah
Uh-huh, yeah, like that, can you deal with it, D-E-V-I-L?
[Chorus: André 3000]
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like
[Verse 4: Big Boi]
I'm getting deeper than that prostitute's vagina
And pimping way more hoes than there's peoples out in China
I roll that black 'Lac with the crushed velvet interior
Niggas try to bite that shit, but their shit is inferior
We rolling thick like the Pillsbury Doughboy
And I don't give a damn, motherfucker, 'cause you know why
The Caucus Mountains and the mutant gene
You try to wipe a nigga like me slam up off the scene
You hairy bastard, work a little bit faster
Because of the shit that I done been through, I shall never call you master
You D-E-V-I-L, the cave is where you dwell
So stay up out the rain, it's beginning to smell like dog, yeah
I wonder how you would be acting if you's in my shoes
You'd probably shit your tight-ass drawers 'cause I got a short-ass fuse
So what do you really wanna do when I get militant?
Thought I was a pimp, flip the script, but you can get with it
They call me Big Boi, I be capping with a big gun
Run up on it if you want it, then you bite the big one, yeah
Uh-huh, yeah, like that, can you deal with it, D-E-V-I-L?
[Chorus: André 3000]
Deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep, you wanna go deep, I'll take you deep
You know you fucked up when you let my mind creep
Deeper than the page of a book, let me look
You let me hit the stage, now I got my folks hooked
Like, deep
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Dre and Big Boi get deep on this track, addressing and attempting to dispel multiple stereotypes while confirming their black pride.
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Released on
April 26, 1994
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