Текст песни Return Of The "g"

"Return of the 'G'" Produced by Organized Noize Who says a player can't trade his Braves fitted for a polyester turban without getting his ghetto pass revoked? Dre silences those who "get the wrong impression of expression" with one of the hardest verses committed to tape. Rico Wade: Dre was already doing weird shit. It was almost like you just wanted to make sure, 'Goddamn, you still there right?' And he let folks know he was still there on this one. And then Big Boi went in. Both of them cats. That's when Big and Dre were coming into their own. That's why they named the album Aquemini Andre 3000: I was young and wilder and some of my fashion choices people didn't accept at the time. I started getting flak from some people, so they were like, 'Either he's gay or on drugs.' And it's funny because I was high as hell all the way through Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, but by ATLiens and Aquemini I wasn't smoking or drinking. Big Boi: Back then, there was a whole bunch of shit talking. People just couldn't understand how we were making the type of music we were making. There were a lot of attacks coming at my partner, so we wanted OutKast to be like, 'You fuck with my homeboy, we gonna fuck you up.' We wanted to let people know, this man doesn't stand by himself. I mean, that's my dog. It's a team effort. Andre 3000: With Big Boi standing by me I knew I had to address some of the shit 'cause I can't have my homeboy looking bad. I knew a lotta people felt like Southernplayalistic was some of our hardest work and they felt like we strayed from that. So 'Return of the Gangsta' was trying to give them a sense of, 'Hey, I'm still a regular person.' At the end of the day, you've still got to go through the same neighborhoods so sometimes you have to say stuff to let people know what it is. I'm a man so you can't say some of this stuff to me. The things in that verse were addressing all of that. "Return of the 'G'" skit When neighborhood "thugs" stop by their friendly mom-and-pop record store to check up on that new Pimp Trick Gangsta Clique album, the owner tries to steer them toward "that new, new OutKast" instead. The thugs emphatically decline: "Man, fuck them. I ain't fuckin' with them no mo'." Andre 3000: I wrote out the skits. It was like a parody of everything going on at the time. Back then all the hood record labels were called stuff like Slap a Bitch Records or Big Dick Records, so we made up the group name Pimp Trick Gangsta Clique. Me, Sleepy [Brown] and Cee-Lo were going to form an actual band called Pimp Trick Gangsta Clique. We recorded some stuff but never released anything under that name. It was really just a funny thing we made up for an album you'd buy at the record store.