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Tech N9ne

Dysfunctional

Release date: 28th April 2009

From Sickology 101
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About This Track

Tech N9ne frames dysfunction as a survival reflex, not a flaw. The track opens with a warning: don't test his patience, don't bring nonsense, step back if you want to keep the peace. He's a beast with no tolerance, shaped by years of abandonment, and the anger runs through every bar like a current he can't switch off. Krizz Kaliko's chorus hammers the point home: push him and things get bad, fool around and he'll lose it. Big Scoob arrives in the second verse with a different strain of the same wound. He's a product of his environment, forced into retirement, hunting for a lane that might bring him change. The game has moved on and left him behind; he's uncomfortable in spaces where he no longer belongs. Both voices carry the weight of people who've been forsaken, who've learned to expect the worst and react accordingly. Produced by Matic Lee and built around Strange Music labelmates, 'Dysfunctional' doesn't excuse anger so much as explain it. The song treats dysfunction not as a character flaw but as a rational response to circumstance, a hardness earned through time and neglect.

"Dysfunctional" is a track by Tech N9ne, from the album Sickology 101, released 28th April 2009. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Dysfunctional

[Intro: Tech N9ne]

First entry for Sickology 101: Dysfunctional

[Verse 1: Tech N9ne]

Yeah, don't you bring me nothing stupid

If you don't want me to lose it

Step back if you don't want me to attack

I'm a beast, better give me the deuces

I have no tolerance for nonsense, get away from me

Me, I wanna get dollars, don't wanna holler but you makin' me

I'm a little dysfunctional, you're the problem, please don't awaken me

And I'm that way 'cause back in the day, most have forsaken me

La-di-da-di, I'm at the party

On a drunk night, what a punk might do is try to pick a fight because he's sorry

That he ain't Gotti, like I be, 'cause he

Sloppy, not me, costly rocks be spot free

But he don't know I'm roguish, surrounded by my soldiers

And they be locked and loaded, when exploded, you can't hold us

And we don't got no scruples

We didn't come to fight and shoot you

But you busters better be neutral

Don't get loose because we cuckoo

Listen, they call me genius, I run the show

Women be on my penis, it's wonderful

Demons think they the meanest

But I brung the foe on the flow

Little bit sick, don't you know?

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

I'm a little dysfunctional, don't you know?

If you push me, it might be bad

Get a little emotional, don't you know?

If you fool around and make me mad

I'm a little dysfunctional, don't you know?

If you push me, it might be bad

Get a little emotional, don't you know?

Might fool around and make me mad

Don't make me mad

[Verse 2: Big Scoob]

Born to hustle, I'm a product of environment

The game done changed, so I've been forced into retirement

But I make moves and I paid dues and I got common sense

Since I can't lose and I can't choose, then I'll come back to spit

I got hit songs, but I've been gone so long that I don't fit

Kneeled at the throne, but can't get on, so I need me a lick

I write these songs, but don't belong, I'm on some other shit

I'm huntin' leads in desperate need, I hope it's comin' quick

I rack my brain to find a lane that's gon' bring me some change

But it's so strange, my life has changed and I am not the same

I come around, but since I'm down, it feels uncomfortable

I try to hide it deep inside, but I'm dysfunctional

I never learned to hold it in, I gets emotional

First, implode and then explode, I am combustible

So please don't push me, play me, pussy, on some real shit

Won't be defeated, if I'm heated, nigga, oh shit!

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

I'm a little dysfunctional, don't you know?

If you push me, it might be bad

Get a little emotional, don't you know?

If you fool around and make me mad

I'm a little dysfunctional, don't you know?

If you push me, it might be bad

Get a little emotional, don't you know?

Might fool around and make me mad

Don't make me mad

[Verse 3: Krizz Kaliko]

I ain't no killer, but don't push me

Goody-goody choir boy, never been no pussy

Could be carrying something up under my hoodie

Krizz would never snap and kill up all y'all, or would he?

Now, I wanna be peaceful, but I carry Desert Eagles where

Ever black people are, you know how black people are

I peep 'em out, try to stay evened out

Wanna preach to 'em, but their evil keep on seepin' out

Emotions get the best of me, messed up

And then y'all get the rest of me

Depressed and stressed, feel like my destiny

I know y'all think less of me, 'cause I'm always sick and I can't let it be

Pharmaceutical soup be the best recipe, it's gon' be the death of me

I need depakote just to cope, that's why I keep throwing them pills down my throat

Dysfunctional blunts will do, smokin' bombay can give me Fung Shui

But I wish that it all would go away

Or maybe I should pray for Jesus Christ to just un-pretzel me

Tryin' to pray for change, but sometimes, it feel like he lets it be

So I'll just take another couple doses, probably be fine

But if you get too close, you'll find out that I'm

[Chorus: Krizz Kaliko]

I'm a little dysfunctional, don't you know?

If you push me, it might be bad

Get a little emotional, don't you know?

If you fool around and make me mad

I'm a little dysfunctional, don't you know?

If you push me, it might be bad

Get a little emotional, don't you know?

Might fool around and make me mad

Don't make me mad

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Track details

From Sickology 101

2009
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Album
Sickology 101
Sickology 101
816 Boyz
Release year
2009
  1. —Take It Off
  2. —Bootlegger Outro (Skit)
  3. —Creepin'
  4. —Dysfunctional
  5. —Ghetto Love
  6. —In the Air
  7. —Let Me In
  8. —Midwest Choppers 2
  9. —Party and Bullshit
  10. —Poh Me Anutha
  11. —Sorry N' Shit
  12. —We Kixin' It
  13. —Grammys (Skit)
  14. —Sickology 101
  15. —Blown Away
  16. —Bootlegger (Skit)
  17. —Spelling Bee (Skit)
  18. —Far Away
  19. —Areola
  20. —Red Nose

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