No Great Pretender (explicit Album Version) - The Roots Check it out one two M Illi Tant I be the alias Malik B Internationale rationale All the people up 68th Ave And across Broad Street Or Silk Lane in South Philly And on at cetera Check it out check it out Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to Assassinate your cast members Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to Assassinate your cast members Dig it cool calm collect In my perspective Search the premises I leave no clues for detectives My verbal impact across your back slap You talk about you see me But your vision's full of cataract It don't matter that your Glass house I shatter that Bad luck I walk under now Show me where the ladder at Pull up the urinal organs up In your bladder cat Approachin' you with shriller Rhetoric as if you had a sac Now crews down for it Your gas pedal floor it With ammo and artillery and Stash spots to keep and store it I used the banner of a slant with a zort Change your strategic plan My man's getting bored Your vocal chord is fraudulent And not the true porcelain I bring the fire earth And the source of wind The force of sin will endorse the pen We all search for sanity But I think that it was lost again Now which stick of artists Can be the smartest My beam of sunlight shines The brightest in the forest Regardless artists dislike Because I'm trimper Control the temper makin' MC's whimper I tilt the Earth from off The axis in the center Next I'm in the womb like a placenta M Illi Tant the city ninja uplift Cause I'm the soul avenger Remember I'm no great pretender Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members Strategies I bet y'all niggaz Can't believe this I read you like a whole Avenue that's filled with meters Parked f**k your back talk I watch how niggaz cat walk Over my pit of venom and Send em to the asphalt For inquisitive who wanna try to test me What protects me will make You shake like epilepsy Plague your neighborhood With lyrical Le prosy Stimulate more than Ecstasy Y'all niggaz check my recipe Dig it I must observe it Analyze when I'm chillin' Peep out who's the villain Then make your whole pavilion Of a Sicilian excuse the Greed don't want a mill I want a zillion stacks of Franklin's to the ceiling I counts stacks imported F**k the yacht and the mansion I want Pluto and Jupiter Political universal expansion Buy out Tommy and Hale Hanson You hold it for ransom Pass it down to my grandson I got no time to be romancin' Only time's for mental Food and advancement This game of Life is strictly Chancein' get to know The nature before I get know The ni**a while I'm glancing Enhancing is my mental I play in the midst A squad a team most crews Is not in the half's of rentals My utensils display a whole variety Even when in the cut niggaz Can't cut they anxiety Peep I fill your brain with Suspicion pay attention Like you paid tuition and Stop all your bull ishin' The rap chemist in the Lab to the finish The mike is my apprentice Cause I can't stand Courts or tennis my pigmentation Is the menace That's why the system's always tryin' To pursue with a blemish Pale asses think a ni**a in this My flows tremendous for The meal you can't replenish The question you ask me Situation get worse Flam I won't befriend ya Cause I'm no great pretender Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members Here on this agenda There is no pretenders So when we begin to assassinate Your cast members It's like that one time for your mind