Roots - No Great Pretender lyrics
rate me[Malik B]<br />
Check it out, one two<br />
M-illi-tant<br />
I be the, alias Malik B<br />
Internationale rationale<br />
All the people up 68th Ave.<br />
And across Broad Street<br />
Or Silk Lane in South Philly<br />
And on, et cetera<br />
Check it out, check it out<br />
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Chorus: The Roots<br />
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Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders<br />
So when we begin to assassinate your cast members<br />
Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders<br />
So when we begin to assassinate your cast members<br />
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Verse One: Malik B<br />
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Dig it, cool calm collect in my perspective<br />
Search the premises, I leave no clues for detectives<br />
My verbal impact across your back slap<br />
You talk about you see me, but your vision's full of cataract<br />
It don't matter that, your glass house I shatter that<br />
Bad luck I walk under now show me where the ladder at<br />
Pull up the urinal organs up in your bladder cat<br />
Approachin you with shriller rhetoric, as if you had a sac<br />
Now crews down for it, your gas pedal floor it<br />
With ammo and artillery and stash spots to keep and store it<br />
I used the banner of a slant with a zort<br />
Change your strategic plan, my man's getting bored<br />
Your vocal chord is fraudulent, and not the true porcelain<br />
I bring the fire, earth, and the source of wind<br />
The force of sin will endorse the pen<br />
We all search for sanity, but I think that it was lost again<br />
Now which stick of artists, can be the smartest<br />
My beam of sunlight shines the brightest in the forest<br />
Regardless, artists dislike because I'm ?<br />
Control the temper, makin MC's whimper<br />
I tilt the Earth from off the axis in the center<br />
Next I'm in the womb like a placenta<br />
M-Illi-Tant the city ninja, uplift<br />
Cause I'm the soul avenger, remember I'm no great pretender<br />
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Chorus 2X<br />
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Verse Two: Black Thought<br />
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Strategis, I bet y'all niggaz can't believe this<br />
I read you like a whole avenue that's filled with meters<br />
Parked, f**k your back talk, I watch how niggaz cat-walk<br />
Over my pit of venom and send em to the asphault<br />
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For inquisitives, who wanna try to test me<br />
What protects me, will make you shake like epilipsy<br />
Plague your neighborhood with lyrical le-prosy<br />
Stimulate more than Ecstasy y'all niggaz check my recipe<br />
Dig it, I must observe it, analyze when I'm chillin<br />
Peep out who's the villain then make your whole pavillion<br />
Of a Sicilian, excuse the greed don't want a mill'<br />
I want a zillion - stacks of Franklins to the ceiling<br />
I counts stacks imported, f**k the yacht and the mansion<br />
I want Pluto and Jupiter, political, universal expansion<br />
Buy out Tommy and Halle Hanson<br />
Kidnap America, ? you hold it for ransom<br />
Pass it down to my grandson, I got no time to be romancin<br />
Only time's for mental food and advancement<br />
This game of Life is strictly chancein - get to know <br />
The nature before I get know the nigga while I'm glancing<br />
Enhancing, is my mental - I play in the midst<br />
A squad a team most crews is not in the halfs of rentals<br />
My utensils, display a whole variety<br />
Even when in the cut niggaz can't cut they anxiety<br />
Peep, I fill your brain with suspicion, pay attention<br />
Like you paid tuition, and stop all your bull-ishin<br />
The rap chemist in the lab to the finish<br />
The mic is my apprentice, cause I can't stand <br />
Courts or tennis, my pigmentation is the menace<br />
That's why the system's always tryin to pursue with a blemish<br />
Pale asses, think a nigga in this<br />
My flow's tremendous, for the meal you can't replenish<br />
The question you ask me, situation get worse<br />
Fam I won't befriend ya, cause I'm no great pretender<br />
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Chorus 2X<br />
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[Malik B]<br />
It's like that, one time for your mind<br />
Fifth Dynasty, interwine and combine<br />
M-Illi-Tant<br />
The Bad Lieuten-ant<br />
One hundred X, Bahamadia<br />
Minds and souls, like that<br />
Fifth Dynast', my man ?, P.R. Star<br />
My man Slick Looka<br />
Check it out, one time like that<br />
Feel the Fifth<br />
The One-Fifth attack<br />
Your backbone and spine<br />
Check it out<br />
Brother Q.U.E.S.T.<br />
South Philly, ?
