[00:00:01] I Remain Calm - The Roots [00:00:05] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:00:07] When you put me on I remain calm [00:00:09] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:00:12] When you put me on I remain calm [00:00:14] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:00:17] When you put me on I remain calm [00:00:19] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:00:22] When you put me on I remain calm [00:00:24] It's the 'I remain calm' but for jurge to erk [00:00:26] Come out my humble go berzerk and make you swallow your smirk [00:00:29] I splurge most and bash capacitate mass [00:00:31] I fascinate as I assassinate and show task [00:00:34] Characters and egos get crushed in trust [00:00:36] And my words stampede like herds in a dusk [00:00:38] Cream of all crops topics I drop [00:00:41] When heated up I gets hotter cause I'm proper [00:00:44] You never knew the levitude the clever few [00:00:46] Different tax for revenue man if you ever knew [00:00:48] The tac-tic strategies of word ca-pa-bil-ities [00:00:52] Display de-cease [00:00:53] The rhythm and man how it swerved and curved [00:00:56] Made a niggaz dream but his hope deferred then stirred [00:00:58] Dig the mentals Papermate Bic's and Number 2 pencils [00:01:01] My credentials blow on instrumentals [00:01:03] I write an anthem throw a tantrum and remain handsome [00:01:06] Mysterious vibes like I was the phantom [00:01:08] Erupt abruptly then conduct amaze [00:01:10] You're f**ked when the lyrics get bucked because I graze [00:01:13] Never animosity on my property [00:01:15] Niggaz acropoly or they feel extreme monstrosity [00:01:18] Wreakin leak out the verbals don't forget it [00:01:20] The chief of edit then Malik'll shred it yeah I said it [00:01:23] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:01:25] When you put me on I remain calm [00:01:27] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:01:30] When you put me on I remain calm [00:01:32] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:01:35] When you put me on I remain calm [00:01:37] I remain calm lyrically I got the bomb [00:01:40] When you put me on I remain calm [00:01:42] That nigga Thought flows like a river I deliver [00:01:45] Styles like Domino's eyes closed I inhale [00:01:47] Equality follow me now son [00:01:49] Listen my divisions advance I surpass one half the rap mass [00:01:52] The other half want my autograph because I got [00:01:54] Soul plus a ghetto stroll similar to Shaft [00:01:57] It's the mic rapers splittin Phillies in the cellar [00:01:59] My acapella verse can stomp I delete comp [00:02:01] My rated X larynx wrecks your context [00:02:04] I'm complex confusin lyrically amusin I drink brews [00:02:07] Then when I'm groovin I'm no longer human [00:02:09] I'd like to take this time to give a shout to all the money makers [00:02:11] In the house galore they help me turn it out [00:02:13] I whip the cap to the max I'm laid back like your gramps [00:02:16] I make niggaz unbalanced like they spendin food stamps [00:02:18] I take my time when I rhyme lovely me nah like [00:02:21] Ugly like God we get odd to the rhythms [00:02:23] Rappers thinkin of steppin up what the f**k you're doin [00:02:26] I amplify the hymn to bring your empire to ruin [00:02:28] Who's your girl screwin fellas Jealous because I'm fly [00:02:31] Keep my sneakers dry when you cry-baby [00:02:32] See I can have you headin for the border like a ReFugee from Haiti [00:02:36] Aiyyo this brother drivin my cab tried to flip saying [00:02:38] "Pay me in advance" -- I asked him if he ever danced [00:02:41] In the dark with the rap devil BlackThought [00:02:43] See niggaz who get caught off guard remain scarred [00:02:45] Into air with headphones remainin on the domes they hair [00:02:48] I resound and astound and scare I reign terror [00:02:51] Into another nigga rap era my rhymes sedate [00:02:53] I duplicate like aloe vera [00:02:55] I'm extreme restin in the land of the plot and the scheme