[00:00:00] Duck Down! (Explicit) - The Roots [00:00:02] Written by:Montez Robe [00:00:20] Yea we gettin' ready to break y'all it's winner take all [00:00:23] The game is locked we down to the eight ball [00:00:25] The time is now it ain't nothin' to wait for [00:00:28] I'm a king by blood a soldier by nature [00:00:30] I'm somethin' like a threat to y'all space cadets [00:00:33] 'Cause you never met brother nothin' like me yet [00:00:36] So push another slice into your toast and tighten your vests [00:00:39] Cause it's a warrior you seein' here tonight in the flesh [00:00:42] I give you somethin' high voltage double dosage [00:00:44] Runnin' with these vultures givin' me ulcers [00:00:46] Which one of these hustlers bringin' the thunder [00:00:49] Riq geez not another man takin' us under [00:00:51] Ni**a please which philly cat doin' his own thing [00:00:54] Might say black my give you a code name [00:00:57] Round my neck see the microphone hang [00:00:59] Have your lady lips singin' like on soul train [00:01:02] The niggaz that's a problem is minimal margin [00:01:04] The colonel captain lieutenant general sergeant [00:01:07] Black one man army move in on your squadron [00:01:09] You sittin' still you know you a target [00:01:11] You heard you better duck down [00:01:13] See me comin' better tuck those chains [00:01:15] Cause you don't wanna feel them thangs [00:01:17] If you want it you can get it baby [00:01:20] You know you need to get low [00:01:22] Duck down duck down [00:01:24] See me comin' better tuck those chains [00:01:25] Cause you don't wanna feel them thangs [00:01:28] If you want it you can get it baby [00:01:30] You know you need to get low [00:01:32] Duck down duck down [00:01:33] Yea we gettin' set to get rid of y'all that's what it's headin' for [00:01:36] The underdog knuckle and brawl with the bigger ball [00:01:38] I spit what your wig absorb sicker than sycamore [00:01:41] I'm creatin' a circumstance that you a victim of [00:01:43] The rebel or the renegade out on the quest [00:01:46] The super black man runnin' wit a s on his chest [00:01:49] And stand for the straight struggle to escape the stress [00:01:51] You think it's sweet tryin' to eat you ain't taste this yet [00:01:54] So make y'all steps precautious into the darkness [00:01:57] Thoughts cold and heartless makin' me nauseous [00:01:59] Gettin' more remorses for what I done [00:02:01] If the lawyers and courts wonder what I run [00:02:04] You see the liberty is free but just for some [00:02:06] How you a gangster and you scared to bust your gun [00:02:09] For the call trust your fam' and trust nobody at all [00:02:12] Seein' brothers gettin' struck down [00:02:14] You better duck down [00:02:15] See me comin' better tuck those chains [00:02:17] Cause you don't wanna feel them thangs [00:02:19] If you want it you can get it baby [00:02:22] You know you need to get low [00:02:24] Duck down duck down [00:02:26] See me comin' better tuck those chains [00:02:28] Cause you don't wanna feel them thangs [00:02:30] If you want it you can get it baby [00:02:33] You know you need to get low [00:02:35] Duck down duck down [00:02:36] I can feel somethin' for sure I've been up in here before [00:02:39] A gladiator in a colliseum ready for war [00:02:41] That old timer holdin' his revolver set to blow [00:02:43] Just like a gladiator at whoever stick his head in the door [00:02:46] And one who been through it all anything go [00:02:48] Rather give it to you straight 'stead of speakin' in codes [00:02:51] 'Cause man that b******t can get you riddled with holes [00:02:53] If you ain't insured than the hospitals is close [00:02:55] You got to go up town while ya leakin' on the ground [00:02:58] In cases like these you need to duck down [00:03:00] You're five dollar toys I'm a million dollar man [00:03:04] Esquire 'riq geez go according to plan [00:03:06] I'm thinkin' outside the box off the blocks [00:03:08] An outside your concept of time off the clocks for real [00:03:11] Well it's black thought your boss dj [00:03:13] However you brothers weigh that's what ya gonna pay