所属专辑:Home Grown! The Beginners Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vols. 1 and 2
歌手: The Roots
时长: 06:23
Miscellaneous[00:00:03]
Double trouble[00:00:06]
*about 35 seconds of ad libs *[00:00:08]
We go wow ba da da dow da dah ow[00:00:12]
Either stand tall just sit the f**k down[00:00:16]
All the way from the 2 1 5th to bucktown[00:00:24]
Brace yourself it's about to go down[00:00:29]
Runnin one on one and only hip hop bound[00:00:33]
Yo tariq[00:00:35]
Whassup[00:00:36]
How your micraphone sound[00:00:36]
It sound tight[00:00:37]
Well aight show em what it's about[00:00:38]
We got to blow up the spot because they must have forget[00:00:40]
We double[00:00:42]
Trouble[00:00:43]
Bubble[00:00:43]
Bubble[00:00:44]
Bubble[00:00:44]
Bubblin hot[00:00:44]
Well it's like smack the track up and leave dents in it[00:00:45]
The vocalist bustin this blunt instrument spit[00:00:48]
The magnificent rapper's run from it[00:00:50]
All fly girls nipples and toes numb from it[00:00:53]
Mc's in my circumference is confronted son[00:00:55]
Get your growth stunted from this you don't want it[00:00:58]
What n***a[00:01:00]
The black thought and m o s def done it[00:01:00]
Who the ultimate yo my man speak upon it[00:01:03]
Aiyyo I stop fools and drop jewels but never run it[00:01:05]
Rock mics so nice I make you stock price plummet[00:01:07]
All you high noon riders better rally at the summit[00:01:10]
It's me and tariq and your fleet outnumbered[00:01:13]
Cross the membrane barkin big game and get hunted[00:01:15]
Eyewitness account say it happened so sudden[00:01:18]
Just slid off to the side didn't really say nuttin[00:01:20]
Then blaow blew away the 1900th[00:01:22]
You better get your rest cause the next day comin[00:01:25]
Oh yes and mc's they scared to say sum'tin[00:01:27]
Stop frontin I'm in the cut just onlookin[00:01:30]
Your get your kings your rooks rings and pawns tooken[00:01:33]
Aiyyo keep your tape rollin so you catch every bar[00:01:35]
Of the black thought and the black man from black star[00:01:38]
Illadelph and vietnam we conference accomplish[00:01:40]
Even with stakes inclined I get mine regardless[00:01:43]
Yo a lot of smurfette mc's carry purses[00:01:46]
And rock uniforms that's made for nurses[00:01:48]
I burst your verses your words is worthless[00:01:50]
Only touchin surface the f**k's the purpose[00:01:52]
I shot the sherriff the deputy and head of bank treasury[00:01:55]
So mounties in the county got a big bounty stressin me[00:01:58]
But tell 'em to hold off they too short to measure me[00:02:00]
Mos and black thought blast forth with the weaponry[00:02:03]
Like blaow ba dow da da dow da dah ow[00:02:05]
Either stand tall or sit the f**k down[00:02:08]
All the way from the 2 1 5th to bucktown[00:02:10]
Brace yourself it's about to go down[00:02:13]
Yo tariq[00:02:15]
Whassup[00:02:16]
How your micraphone sound[00:02:16]
It sound tight[00:02:17]
Well aight show em what it's about[00:02:18]
We got to blow up the spot because they must have forget[00:02:20]
We double[00:02:22]
Trouble[00:02:23]
Bubble[00:02:23]
Bubble[00:02:23]
Bubble[00:02:24]
Bubblin hot[00:02:24]
Yeah now check your stove top before you take a listen[00:02:25]
And make sure beans don't burn in the kitchen[00:02:28]
These gassed up n***az just ain't fuel efficient[00:02:30]
I play the winter breeze to choke hold your piston[00:02:33]
Eh eh eh eh[00:02:35]
Now you n***az can't make pole position[00:02:36]
Class e chassis can't hold the transmission[00:02:37]
Crew pit useless they got they tools missin[00:02:40]
Watch me grand prix champy for wealth driven[00:02:42]
Yo you go one for my hustle[00:02:45]
Hustle[00:02:46]
Two to rock rhyme[00:02:47]
Two to rock rhyme[00:02:47]
From the muscle kid I'm one of the illets of all time[00:02:48]
I swing from chandeliers and wall climb[00:02:50]
And specialize in warfares of all kind[00:02:53]
A lot of mc's said I'm a run it down rhyme[00:02:55]
But half the time they run it down one of mine[00:02:58]
Thought suffocatin em with yet another stunnin line[00:03:00]
You dumb and blind kid it's enlarged and underlined[00:03:03]
What I memorized leave your whole staff pressurized[00:03:05]
Melt down all of your artificial lies[00:03:08]
Y'all n***az is faker than yellow no[00:03:10]
5[00:03:12]
Swine like mono and diglyceride[00:03:13]
My vocals got texture you just texturized[00:03:15]
I'm nicer than your writtens even when I'm improvised[00:03:18]
Step into my zone get flown like fly[00:03:20]
By the b boy lazarus who just won't die[00:03:22]
Yo me and kamal and leanord hubbard uestlove and malik[00:03:25]
We go back to dollar hoagies and tahitian treat[00:03:27]
Or like toast in the oven with government cheese bubblin[00:03:30]
Me and dante like marvin the troublemen travellin[00:03:33]
Give me the mic we on that again[00:03:36]
B boy business off the top actin and battlin[00:03:38]
Servin them cats that forgot[00:03:41]
But don't get too close because you might get shot[00:03:42]
Like blaow ba dow da da dow da dah ow[00:03:45]
Either stand tall or sit the f**k down[00:03:48]
All the way from the 2 1 5th to bucktown[00:03:50]
Brace yourself it's about to go down[00:03:53]
Yo tariq[00:03:55]
Whassup[00:03:56]
How your micraphone sound[00:03:56]
It sound tight[00:03:57]
Well aight show em what it's about[00:03:58]
We bout to blow up the spot because y'all must have forget[00:04:00]
We double[00:04:02]
Trouble[00:04:03]
Bubble[00:04:03]
Bubble[00:04:04]
Bubble[00:04:04]
Bubblin hot[00:04:05]
We go blaow ba dow da da dow da dah ow[00:04:05]
Either stand tall or sit the f**k down[00:04:08]
All the way from the 2 1 5th to bucktown[00:04:10]
Went from do you want more to what you want now[00:04:13]
Yo tariq[00:04:15]
Whassup[00:04:16]
How your micraphone sound[00:04:16]
It sound tight[00:04:17]
Well aight show em what it's about[00:04:18]
We bout to blow up the spot because y'all must have forget[00:04:20]
We double[00:04:22]
Trouble[00:04:23]
Bubble[00:04:23]
Bubble[00:04:23]
Bubble[00:04:24]
Bubblin hot[00:04:24]
Say here's a little story that must be told[00:04:25]
About two young brothers who got so much soul[00:04:27]
They takin total control of the body and brain[00:04:30]
Flyin high in the sky on a lyrical plane[00:04:33]
It's just two bad brothers who will never quit[00:04:35]
Mos def and tariq from the 2 1 5th[00:04:37]
They rock beginnin to end on a spiritual blend[00:04:40]
And everybody who forgot then baby tell em again[00:04:42]
It's just me and tariq with ahmir on the beat[00:04:45]
The roots crew baby yo we got to make it unique[00:04:47]
We got the soul shockinest body rockinest[00:04:50]
Non stoppinest fortified live survive the apocalypse[00:04:53]
Rhymes we say the perfect blend[00:04:55]
Because we know how to rock when the beat come in[00:04:57]
Like zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:00]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:02]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:05]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:08]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:10]
Here we go here we here we here we go[00:05:13]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:15]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:18]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:20]
Let the poppers pop and the breakers break[00:05:23]
Then zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:25]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen[00:05:27]
Two years ago a friend of mine[00:05:30]
Zen zen zen zen zen zen zen zen *fades*[00:05:33]