Roots - Long Time lyrics
rate me[Chorus]<br />
Oooh<br />
It's been a long time<br />
Since I been back around the way<br />
It's been a long time<br />
Let it spin let spin let it spin<br />
Since I been back around your way<br />
It's been a long time<br />
Long time long time<br />
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[Verse]<br />
[Black Thought]<br />
Struck by the luck of the draw<br />
Real life preservation<br />
What I'm hustling for<br />
My name black thought<br />
The definition of raw<br />
I was born in South Philly<br />
On a cement floor<br />
I had nothing at all<br />
Had to knuckle and brawl<br />
They swore I'd fall<br />
Be another brick in the wall<br />
Another life<br />
Full of love<br />
That lost<br />
That's silly<br />
This Philly<br />
Y'all really ain't stoppin<br />
The boy with the pen<br />
Like Willie<br />
On top of the hall<br />
Pure soul is what the city<br />
Most popular for<br />
Hear the tones<br />
That will ease you<br />
Smooth<br />
As Bunny Sigler's soundtrack<br />
Keepin your head boppin and all<br />
It's something in the water<br />
Where I come from<br />
They used to sing it on the corner<br />
Where I come from<br />
Making somethin outta nothing<br />
Because everybody fifty cents<br />
From a quarter<br />
Where I come from<br />
Yeah<br />
The streets ain't timid<br />
But I feel at home in it<br />
Gotta see a couple people<br />
I ain't got at<br />
In a minute<br />
Yeah<br />
You can take a brother outta South Philly<br />
Can't take it outta him really<br />
I forever represent it<br />
And it's<br />
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[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Peedi Peedi]<br />
Live and dirvet<br />
I don't need no mic check<br />
Remember mommy told me<br />
You ain't write that<br />
It started in the bathroom taking a dump<br />
Listening to Ultramagnetic<br />
Ego tripping you won't<br />
Pressure my word<br />
I'm the urban vision<br />
Of you chump<br />
Stomped on a different ground<br />
Sound second to none<br />
Synthesizers tweet<br />
To improvise your feet<br />
I calculated every lyric to arrive on a beat<br />
It's free<br />
Come get high on me<br />
Before a nine millimeter shell<br />
Hit my pelle pelle<br />
In the p<br />
Yeah<br />
It's somethin in the water<br />
Where I come from<br />
They used to sing it on the corner<br />
Where I come from<br />
Making somethin outta nothing<br />
Because everybody<br />
Fifty cents from a quarter<br />
Yo<br />
Where I come from<br />
It's just a natural reaction<br />
For crack to make it happen<br />
Let the pen ink sink<br />
Into the paper of the pad<br />
Think back<br />
When I was younger<br />
Ghetto could have took me under<br />
Young Peedi can't mess with North Philly<br />
Never had<br />
You don't know about me<br />
You ain't stroll my streets<br />
Look familiar<br />
I feel ya<br />
Longtime no see<br />
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[Chorus]<br />
<br />
[Black Thought]<br />
Uhh<br />
Clap somethin<br />
But whatever you clap<br />
Clap to the record spinnin<br />
While I'm takin you back<br />
To the top paper era<br />
Baby big on that<br />
Picture the pool room<br />
Where the money getters was at<br />
And street people<br />
With feather in the cap<br />
Or their bossolino Pullin paper<br />
As if it's a small casino<br />
I was a young boy<br />
Sweepin the floors<br />
And runnin to stores<br />
But all those old heads<br />
Woudl talk to me About the way<br />
To clutch the eagle<br />
On a buck and truck<br />
And if I'm down<br />
How to get back up<br />
Just survival kid<br />
And it's a struggle worldwide<br />
I'm positive<br />
Shit the ghetto might as well<br />
Be the Gaza Strip<br />
You know where all the monsters is<br />
Street walkers<br />
You don't see no consciousness I'm coming back to where<br />
The core of the problem is<br />
We on the job again<br />
Y'all know what time it is<br />
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[Chorus]
