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Humble Mumble

4:50hip hop, r&b, southern hip hop, neo soul Album Stankonia (25th Anniversary) 2025-10-31

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Description

Associated Performer: Outkast feat. Erykah Badu

Associated Performer: Outkast

Background Vocal, Associated Performer, Vocal: Erykah Badu

Vocal: Big Boi

Vocal, Background Vocal: André 3000

Producer, Keyboards, Arranger: Earthtone III

Keyboards: Marvin "Chanz" Parkman

Bass: Preston Crump

Composer, Lyricist: André Benjamin

Composer, Lyricist: Antwan Patton

Composer, Lyricist: David Sheats

Composer, Lyricist: Erica Wright

Recording Engineer: John Frye

Recording Engineer: Kevin Parker

Recording Engineer: Neal H. Pogue

Assistant Engineer: Vincent Alexander

Mixing Engineer: Leslie Brathwaite

Lyrics and translation

Original

I stank I can, I stank I can.

The funky engine that could. Ooh. Yowskie-wowskie, peeskie-weeskie.

All aboard the Stankonia Express. The underground smell roll.

Everybody's looking for an excuse to let loose. What's your locomotive?

Let the -Chattanooga choo-choo.

-Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams. Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams.

Back on the microphone, your number one controller. I rock the microphone and like a blizzard,

I'm so cold, I'm tryna told ya. Life is like a great big roller coaster.

Everything in life don't always happen like it's s'posed to.

Trials and tribulations make you stronger, live longer.

You wanna reach the nation, nigga, start from your corner.

Everything don't always happen like you planned it, demand it. Overstand it, then you handle it.

Fuck wishin', you missin' the ambition on your mission.

Now you switchin', why you quittin' 'cause it's heated in the kitchen? Sloppy slippin' and you're pimpin', nigga.

You either pistol-whip the nigga or you tote the trigger.

You gots to follow through, struggle to complete your dreams. No weapon formed against me prosper, 54:17 from Isaiah.

Lay a nigga down and spray him.

If the dealer dealt a fucked up hand of cards, you gotta play 'em. Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams. That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess

I've got to reroute my dreams. Yeah. Too Democratic, Republic, fuck it.

We chicken nugget. We dip in the sauce like mopping bucket.

Blue collar scholars who take your dollar and wipe my ass with it. You're looking for the lotto, never hit it.

I met a critic, I made that shit withdraw.

She said she thought hip-hop was only guns and alcohol. I said, "Oh, hell naw, but yeah, it's that too.

" You can't discriminate 'cause you done read a book or two. What if I looked at you in a microscope?

Saw all the dirty organisms living in your faucet. Would I stop and would I pause it?

Whoo.

To put that bitch in slow emotion, got the potion and the antidote and a quote for collision. The decision is do you wanna live or wanna exist?

The game changes every day, so I believe it's the fists and marches.

Speeches only reaches those who already know about it. This is how we go about it.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams. That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess

I've got to reroute my dreams.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute -my dreams. -I'm wild.

Just like a rock that's thrown a tree and I'm free.

Just like the wind, the breeze that blows and I flow.

Just like a cloud, I stream the rain and I fly.

Just like a bird up in the sky and I truly fly.

Just like a flower blooms and dry and gray, it's blown away.

And then one day, it turns to gray, it blows away. It finds a ray, it rises way and there it lays until the rain and sun. And

I breathe. Just like the wind, the breeze that blows. And I wanna grow.

Just like a tree up in the sky. Beautiful. Just like the rain that falls.

That's life.

That's life. That's life.

That's -life.

-Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams. Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I gotta reroute my dreams.

Y'all can't harm me.

It's over.

English translation

I stank I can, I stank I can.

The funky engine that could. Ooh. Yowskie-wowskie, peeskie-weeskie.

All aboard the Stankonia Express. The underground smell roll.

Everybody's looking for an excuse to let loose. What's your locomotive?

Let the -Chattanooga choo-choo.

-Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams. Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams.

Back on the microphone, your number one controller. I rock the microphone and like a blizzard,

I'm so cold, I'm tryna told ya. Life is like a great big roller coaster.

Everything in life don't always happen like it's s'posed to.

Trials and tribulations make you stronger, live longer.

You wanna reach the nation, nigga, start from your corner.

Everything don't always happen like you planned it, demand it. Overstand it, then you handle it.

Fuck wishin', you missin' the ambition on your mission.

Now you switchin', why you quittin' 'cause it's heated in the kitchen? Sloppy slippin' and you're pimpin', nigga.

You either pistol-whip the nigga or you tote the trigger.

You gots to follow through, struggle to complete your dreams. No weapon formed against me prosper, 54:17 from Isaiah.

Lay a nigga down and spray him.

If the dealer dealt a fucked up hand of cards, you gotta play 'em. Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams. That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess

I've got to reroute my dreams. Yeah. Too Democratic, Republic, fuck it.

We chicken nugget. We dip in the sauce like mopping bucket.

Blue collar scholars who take your dollar and wipe my ass with it. You're looking for the lotto, never hit it.

I met a critic, I made that shit withdraw.

She said she thought hip-hop was only guns and alcohol. I said, "Oh, hell naw, but yeah, it's that too.

" You can't discriminate 'cause you done read a book or two. What if I looked at you in a microscope?

Saw all the dirty organisms living in your faucet. Would I stop and would I pause it?

Whoo.

To put that bitch in slow emotion, got the potion and the antidote and a quote for collision. The decision is do you wanna live or wanna exist?

The game changes every day, so I believe it's the fists and marches.

Speeches only reaches those who already know about it. This is how we go about it.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams. That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess

I've got to reroute my dreams.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute -my dreams. -I'm wild.

Just like a rock that's thrown a tree and I'm free.

Just like the wind, the breeze that blows and I flow.

Just like a cloud, I stream the rain and I fly.

Just like a bird up in the sky and I truly fly.

Just like a flower blooms and dry and gray, it's blown away.

And then one day, it turns to gray, it blows away. It finds a ray, it rises way and there it lays until the rain and sun. And

I breathe. Just like the wind, the breeze that blows. And I wanna grow.

Just like a tree up in the sky. Beautiful. Just like the rain that falls.

That's life.

That's life. That's life.

That's -life.

-Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams. Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I've got to reroute my dreams.

Humble as a mumble in the jungle of shouts and screams.

That's the way the cracker crumbles, so I guess I gotta reroute my dreams.

Y'all can't harm me.

It's over.

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