[00:00:00] No Great Pretender (explicit Album Version) - The Roots [00:00:05] Check it out one two [00:00:06] M Illi Tant [00:00:08] I be the alias Malik B [00:00:11] Internationale rationale [00:00:14] All the people up 68th Ave [00:00:15] And across Broad Street [00:00:17] Or Silk Lane in South Philly [00:00:18] And on at cetera [00:00:21] Check it out check it out [00:00:23] Here on this agenda [00:00:24] There is no pretenders [00:00:25] So when we begin to [00:00:26] Assassinate your cast members [00:00:28] Here on this agenda [00:00:29] There is no pretenders [00:00:30] So when we begin to [00:00:32] Assassinate your cast members [00:00:33] Dig it cool calm collect [00:00:35] In my perspective [00:00:36] Search the premises [00:00:37] I leave no clues for detectives [00:00:39] My verbal impact across your back slap [00:00:41] You talk about you see me [00:00:43] But your vision's full of cataract [00:00:44] It don't matter that your [00:00:46] Glass house I shatter that [00:00:47] Bad luck I walk under now [00:00:48] Show me where the ladder at [00:00:50] Pull up the urinal organs up [00:00:51] In your bladder cat [00:00:52] Approachin' you with shriller [00:00:53] Rhetoric as if you had a sac [00:00:55] Now crews down for it [00:00:56] Your gas pedal floor it [00:00:57] With ammo and artillery and [00:00:58] Stash spots to keep and store it [00:01:00] I used the banner of a slant with a zort [00:01:02] Change your strategic plan [00:01:03] My man's getting bored [00:01:05] Your vocal chord is fraudulent [00:01:06] And not the true porcelain [00:01:08] I bring the fire earth [00:01:09] And the source of wind [00:01:10] The force of sin will endorse the pen [00:01:12] We all search for sanity [00:01:14] But I think that it was lost again [00:01:15] Now which stick of artists [00:01:17] Can be the smartest [00:01:18] My beam of sunlight shines [00:01:19] The brightest in the forest [00:01:20] Regardless artists dislike [00:01:22] Because I'm trimper [00:01:23] Control the temper makin' MC's whimper [00:01:26] I tilt the Earth from off [00:01:27] The axis in the center [00:01:28] Next I'm in the womb like a placenta [00:01:30] M Illi Tant the city ninja uplift [00:01:33] Cause I'm the soul avenger [00:01:34] Remember I'm no great pretender [00:01:36] Here on this agenda [00:01:37] There is no pretenders [00:01:38] So when we begin to assassinate [00:01:40] Your cast members [00:01:41] Here on this agenda [00:01:42] There is no pretenders [00:01:43] So when we begin to assassinate [00:01:45] Your cast members [00:01:46] Here on this agenda [00:01:47] There is no pretenders [00:01:48] So when we begin to assassinate [00:01:50] Your cast members [00:01:51] Here on this agenda [00:01:52] There is no pretenders [00:01:54] So when we begin to assassinate [00:01:55] Your cast members [00:01:57] Strategies I bet y'all niggaz [00:01:59] Can't believe this [00:02:00] I read you like a whole [00:02:01] Avenue that's filled with meters [00:02:02] Parked f**k your back talk [00:02:04] I watch how niggaz cat walk [00:02:05] Over my pit of venom and [00:02:06] Send em to the asphalt [00:02:07] For inquisitive who wanna try to test me [00:02:10] What protects me will make [00:02:11] You shake like epilepsy [00:02:12] Plague your neighborhood [00:02:14] With lyrical Le prosy [00:02:15] Stimulate more than Ecstasy [00:02:16] Y'all niggaz check my recipe [00:02:18] Dig it I must observe it [00:02:19] Analyze when I'm chillin' [00:02:20] Peep out who's the villain [00:02:22] Then make your whole pavilion [00:02:23] Of a Sicilian excuse the [00:02:24] Greed don't want a mill [00:02:25] I want a zillion stacks of [00:02:27] Franklin's to the ceiling [00:02:28] I counts stacks imported [00:02:29] F**k the yacht and the mansion [00:02:31] I want Pluto and Jupiter [00:02:32] Political universal expansion [00:02:34] Buy out Tommy and Hale Hanson [00:02:36] You hold it for ransom [00:02:38] Pass it down to my grandson [00:02:40] I got no time to be romancin' [00:02:42] Only time's for mental [00:02:43] Food and advancement