[00:00:00] Mellow My Man (Explicit) - The Roots [00:00:00] One two [00:00:01] Yes The Roots layin back rela-xin [00:00:05] Coolin out with my man Malik B [00:00:07] We call him Sla-xon [00:00:08] YaknowhatI'msayin We in effect [00:00:10] Mo like Al B Sure for your plea-sure [00:00:14] Aiyyo bust it [00:00:15] We about to flip it on some ol' laid back mellow my man tip [00:00:18] We gon' set it like this [00:00:20] Yo check it [00:00:22] Bust it La Di Da Di who likes to party [00:00:24] Like Slick Rick the Ruler I'm cooler than a ice brick [00:00:27] Got soul like those afro picks with the black fist [00:00:30] And leave a crowd drippin like John the Baptist it's [00:00:32] The cause of that "Oh sh*t " [00:00:34] The skits I kick flows like catfish [00:00:35] And got many emcees on the blacklist [00:00:37] I'm sharp as a cactus plus quick to bust gymnastic tactics [00:00:40] Us Roots is really true to that rap sh*t [00:00:43] Now holla to the scholarly street skats that follow me [00:00:45] Back to the Soul Shack with packs of rap colonies [00:00:48] Max that Foreign Objects is mad abstract make Shadrach [00:00:50] Offender wanna go like Meshach Black [00:00:53] Thought the nappy cat a bookworm shoe styles like sperm [00:00:57] Cool as Malcolm Little with conch a la perm burn [00:00:59] The herb sticks like wicks and flips when I slaps the hand [00:01:02] Of my mellow my man Malik B [00:01:04] Here I goes negroes best to know the flower [00:01:06] The pro-fessional best in those skills that kills so uhh [00:01:08] WHOA slow down before you go down (sissy) [00:01:12] Trixie this is Agatha Christie your slain and know now [00:01:14] Next contender Malik's the axe offender [00:01:16] Critique me so uniquely with mystique that's so deep within the [00:01:20] Microphones I grip psych with poems so's I slits throats [00:01:22] Put him in a quote when he croaks [00:01:25] They sayin -- isn't it is it the negro that did it [00:01:28] Cause wreck with the tech make you jump and say 'ribbit' [00:01:30] I exhibit many forms prohibit the corny forms [00:01:32] (And we're in your neighborhood) on the norms [00:01:36] Capture was to whack ya [00:01:37] Manu-facture you can even ask Anita about the rap-ture [00:01:40] I figured perhaps ya a say it SLAM [00:01:44] For my mellow my man [00:01:45] The way we do it like this [00:01:47] That for my mellow my man [00:01:48] It's like that for my mellow my man [00:01:50] No no we do it like that [00:01:52] This for my mellow my man [00:01:54] It's like this for my mellow my man [00:01:56] No no we do it like this [00:01:57] That for my mellow my man [00:01:59] It's like that for my mellow man [00:02:00] No no we do it like that [00:02:02] This for my mellow my man [00:02:04] It's like this for my mellow my man [00:02:07] Yo I got spunk plus funk [00:02:09] And Jump Like Punks to Get Beat Down [00:02:11] Turn that heat down I'm crazy cool [00:02:12] Deeper than the pool than Wilt the Stilt [00:02:15] Damn near drowned in clowns bounce to sound [00:02:16] When Thoughts pound [00:02:17] And brown's my complexion section Southern [00:02:19] My brother-in is Jex I [00:02:20] Sweats no sex cause this kid gets [00:02:22] Grits n sh*t it's flex to drains that was crazed [00:02:24] When your heart spit up dip dup damn [00:02:26] Yo I lost it but -- [00:02:28] -- back is the Black Boogey Man [00:02:29] Manic mad musician maker of noise [00:02:31] That's jocked by your homeboys [00:02:32] I rocks my flocks of sheep it's the slickest shepherd around [00:02:35] I was lost but was found now I gets down [00:02:38] From Philly to the Apple I stop and holla tunes and then hit [00:02:40] Up-town Diggin Planets when they get Earthbound [00:02:42] I kick the groovy tunes for you and yours when I pass the can [00:02:46] To my mellow my man Malik B [00:02:48] WHOAHHHHH shucks my nuc snuff ducks (uh-huh) [00:02:51] Abruptly I erupt to destruct deducts [00:02:52] In wax I like to smack em stroke em as I cap em [00:02:56] Change my name to Saran or Reynolds then I Wrap em