Roots - The Session lyrics
rate me[black thought]<br />
From the tunnels in the wee hours of the black morning<br />
From the roots sprout the foreign objects family tree<br />
This is mad abstract<br />
All the way live from philly, we got the hip-hop coalition<br />
Called the foreign objects in effect<br />
It's like dat, now dig<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. trotter, a.k.a.<br />
[bt/tariq trotter]<br />
Well um, black thought from the roots y'all<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. simmons, a.k.a.<br />
[aj/joseph simmons]<br />
A.j. shine, the dollar sign, funky bid'ness<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. pitts, a.k.a.<br />
[la/micah pitts]<br />
Lord akil, social misfit<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. greene, a.k.a.<br />
[mm/tony greene]<br />
Straight from sector 6 it's mr. manifest<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] ms. thompson, a.k.a.<br />
[snm/terresa thompson]<br />
Shorty... pussy (oooooh!)<br />
<br />
[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. cee, a.k.a.<br />
[myself ? ? ?]<br />
Myself, me myself and i<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. dorsey, a.k.a.<br />
[pp/jamal dorsey]<br />
Pazi plant, the soul plant<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. armstead, a.k.a.<br />
[bo/conway armstead]<br />
Bo-watt, the rhythmic priest<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. basset, a.k.a.<br />
[mb/malik basset]<br />
Malik blizzunt, foreign objects<br />
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[?uestion/ahmir thompson] mr. thompson, a.k.a.<br />
[b?/ahmir thompson]<br />
Brother ?uestion, from square roots y'all (yeah, ha-hah)<br />
<br />
[brother ?uestion]<br />
And we the foreign objects (yeah, yeah)<br />
And it's like this..<br />
<br />
Now get loose, get loose, malik b get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[malik blunt]<br />
Yes, i will address and press about my microphone<br />
Me-ssiah, am the best siah? yes-i am<br />
Most quick to go because i'm equipped to flow a script<br />
I will just slay and disobey, i will display banana clips<br />
That slaughter with the words and the herds of the verbs<br />
I gots the urge to splurge, like a bosnian serb<br />
A-drift i means a-draft i means i riff i means i raff<br />
Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't want no brass tro-phy<br />
So okey-dokey folks, most provoke me ? so hold your ?<br />
Was willin, cause i'm strollin with the quotes<br />
Like shakespeare, mark twain, or edgar allan poe<br />
But since i'm a ne-gro, i flows like maya ange-lou<br />
No banja-lo was played, i means banjo betrayed<br />
So the guitar, had to take the bitch off, and slay<br />
You might think i'm a rookie or an amateur, but put me<br />
On a panel or a channel i'll dismantle like the vandal-er<br />
I meants to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle this<br />
Like my man emilio, what y'all should really know<br />
You couldn't get the picture, if you was in an orchard<br />
Or fortress, (so you niggaz better forfeit)<br />
<br />
[brother ?uestion]<br />
Now get loose, get loose, ? get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[? ? ?]<br />
Picture this as i get rugged with the scrpiture<br />
Evacuatin scenes, spreadin thoughts like a drifter<br />
I exit through my state of greater elevation, unifying<br />
Grains through the force of the imagination, you dig<br />
What i'm saying? but i see your mind's playing tricks<br />
You thought you got the channel but you couldn't get a fix<br />
Upon my mental -- i keep it complicated<br />
Explosion of the spirit cause i opened up my soul and created<br />
So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting what i gave ya<br />
Seeping through the cellar cause i be the freak of nature<br />
With, the images that i hold in my head<br />
I be the kid from the fifth, so y'all holding what i've said<br />
I've said, i be the omnipresent factor from the void<br />
Fatter is the flow, so my styling is employed<br />
I'm ragged, pants worn bagged, and umm<br />
The ghetto be my home so i shouts to the slum<br />
Come, the misfit's got a tale, take you on a mad trip<br />
The thoughts unveil<br />
I'm too deep, you sinks down, i creeps round, the lowest<br />
Of the levels, the positive raps that kill devils<br />
The abstracts, right and exact, knapsack's on the back<br />
Rip poetical flows upon the track<br />
My thoughts escape onto a tape, you'll play it back<br />
And listen, i brought to your mind what's missing<br />
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[brother ?uestion]<br />
Now get loose, get loose, pazi plant get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[pazi plant]<br />
I'm hip to release I'll units, i displays major soul<br />
The ? out, so soul stays rhythmatic<br />
To the static when it plays, levels from the bass<br />
They chase but they'll never catch my patt-er-ns<br />
Soul surrounds this plant like the rings upon sa-tur-n<br />
Yo, i'm fatter than many, came to kick away any job<br />
Umm, cat, conniver if it's abstract i'm liable<br />
Take portion cause i'll fly that head ?<br />
Dig the jazz that's closets from the paz be-low bugged<br />
Groovy like the nickel bag of love, slidin<br />
Through the groovy fuzz, plants is the buzz<br />
Mad abornmal, is my flow, much confusion, enhanced in<br />
My scenario's too advanced'n, for duplication<br />
If it's violation, soul power, will shower ya<br />
Defenses now you're falling, and crawling<br />
Cause your styles are infantile not poetically correct<br />
To test i'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, cause my status<br />
Be that is the coolest kid to do a bid on fakers<br />
With the grammar that be blamma, back in eighty-three<br />
I was the grand fruit jammer, but now i gets down<br />
And wreck shit with the foreign objects..<br />
Yeah that's right, the foreign objects<br />
<br />
[brother ?uestion]<br />
Ahhh yeah, now two check, two check<br />
Now check it out, now check it out<br />
Get loose, get loose, myself ? ? ? get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[myself ? ? ?]<br />
Kinda like, ? catch, of the day is mad wreck<br />
I raise heck, no raise hell, you plays back, your tape's ill<br />
Show me just exactly what it is you want, i give you what we got<br />
We got flow, we got soul, we get off, a lot<br />
So lock up, your doors, cause i'm<br />
Busting loose like richard pryor, setting stuff on fire<br />
We got funky, rhymes<br />
Stuff you had swinging, like a monkey, i'm<br />
Always hanging 'round, living off of vine<br />
As in west philly, 56th street<br />
The kids be getting jay'd on the corner<br />
Swing my hat to the back, kangol, no maybe 5 soul<br />
Not no bootleg treat, you get from 52nd street, word up<br />
Word to life, word is bond, word to god<br />
I'm like the bean he's like a bean<br />
I guess the stage is like a pod, ain't with<br />
No metamorphosistically i kiss a licorice<br />
And any miss i wish to kiss or else i diss like this<br />
So i step to the left, drop the mic, catch my breath<br />
Then, watch the foreign object catch wreck, uhh<br />
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[brother ?uestion]<br />
Get loose, get loose, shorty get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[shorty no mas]<br />
Can i kicks it?<br />
I kicks it for the others so i kick it for you<br />
I gotta nag a dog and note to billy - i gets down<br />
Sound's got a lot i got my own i'm throwin passes<br />
Asses are grabbed, when i swing with the roots<br />
Suits, i got none, but throwin off that accoutrements<br />
Ever since i winced at the thought of a dress<br />
Yes you might be wantin to consider me a tomboy<br />
Boy get it right, i'm still strictly lovin men<br />
Send me your love, don't ever think i don't need it<br />
Shit i got problems, can you help me out?<br />
Shout a little louder if you're sure that you hear me<br />
Fear me not, i'm just another average girl<br />
Curls in my head, and yeah i think i look good<br />
Should i be the one, to break the bad news?<br />
Snooze when i'm tired, not when i'm hype, your type<br />
Yo i just came off!<br />
<br />
[brother ?uestion]<br />
Get loose, get loose, manifest get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[mr. manifest]<br />
Introducing lyrics for the year of ninety-three<br />
The black brainchild is about to kick the groovy<br />
Speak out the head, provided for the hardrocks<br />
Here to resurrect the ghetto beats for the blocks<br />
You can dig the styles cause the styles are for the digging<br />
A fat sack of soul, that's how the sector roll<br />
Never making fake material, why should i?<br />
The mind is so equipped to rip, so why would i<br />
Give you less than that, you in fact, this is where it's at<br />
Cause lyrics i've provided is about to swing the bat<br />
And shake up the levels from new york to montego<br />
It's all about the lyrics, it's not about the ego<br />
Quick to make a jam and slam sound like the pro that i am<br />
It's profound, like the kids from the underground<br />
Every single lyric is prepared, in the hunt for the metro<br />
With scoops of fat loops and funky lingo<br />
Level's being felt, all over in the fifty states<br />
Breaking more beats than my moms breaks the china plates<br />
Transmitting, hitting areas we freak with funk<br />
When we come to planet earth, with a trunk of fat, soul<br />
Alert doing work on the everyday<br />
Here to bring the swing like my man donny hathaway<br />
Just, follow the dotted line, and do what we do<br />
Because you gotta get a grip, if you want your shit<br />
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[brother ?uestion]<br />
Now get loose, get loose, lord akil get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[lord akil]<br />
Umm, from the southern side of philly yet of the roots<br />
There comes me, who?<br />
The janky little brother of mr. bruce<br />
A jazz kickin kid who flows, like the river jordan<br />
Not fond of honda scooters, but i'll take an accord and<br />
Zoom right through your borough, because i'm crazy thorough<br />
No offspring running 'round but no my penile is not sterile<br />
Collects the crazy papes from, selling crazy tapes, umm<br />
Big heads be gettin swollen, i crush em just like grapes<br />
The level that i'm zoning, the one that's on the third<br />
Eatin buds or mad grass that gets you higher than a bird<br />
Kinks, be in the head, cause i leave the curls to jheri<br />
Got mad souls out the ass with shit, fat like william perry<br />
A poor black kid with rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats<br />
Straight from the underground, found new life on the south streets<br />
We ? off the jams that will uplift the people's souls<br />
Cause the objects that are foreign, the kids with baggy clothes<br />
Are the cats that i'm coolin with, when we be together<br />
Two and two equals four but foreign objects be forever<br />
So, just let me flow as i reach up to the next plateau<br />
And then you'll give me my respect<br />
Uhh, cause i'm a foreign object<br />
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[brother ?uestion]<br />
Now get loose, get loose, a.j. shine get loose<br />
And just rock heart-beat showin you got the juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[a.j. shine]<br />
First off, i'm burstin off shots of gab<br />
And gettin lifted by the gift, i start to jab<br />
The rhymes that i grab send schools to the slab<br />
As i write scores, the funky orator's gone<br />
On some next ish lookin<br />
For the next fish with a wish that used to be a duck<br />
But now you're stuck dumbstruck<br />
Trying to hang but you can't swim i think you're fucked<br />
You traded in your blues for boom, tap shoes<br />
I do shows and change all opposing views<br />
I get down, i go up as i blow up<br />
Cause i got this o.m.b. rhyme you can't defuse<br />
Yeahhh, here to rock all of you rockers<br />
When i carry the ball, i stay be-hind my blockers<br />
I move swift, i needs no lift<br />
I don't have to riff because i shift the gift<br />
And now my name is joseph simmons, but i'm not run<br />
With the mic in my hand, i've only just begun<br />
To hold mine, i'ma goldmine plus a ton<br />
The way i shine, i be the rising sun, huh!<br />
How many times must i have to say<br />
This i never miss yo when i display?<br />
From styles i paint the funky picture i portray and<br />
Before i hit the court i made it my forte<br />
Cause i got this, you can come and get this, cause my<br />
Method is the most and i boast so you can bet this<br />
Is like the best of the rest of the flock<br />
And now you're walkin down the hallways of the always jock<br />
Abbreviated a.j. here for the day<br />
Bustin rhymes in your face while i'm fadin away<br />
It's like that y'all, and ya don't stop<br />
The funky bid on the root with the hip-hop<br />
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[black thought]<br />
Now.. get loose, get loose, ?uestion get loose<br />
And, rock heart-beat showin you got juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[brother ?uestion]<br />
It's me the brother ?uestion on the m-i-c to flow<br />
To bust a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' gen'<br />
I'm flexin with my mental verbalistic chocolate<br />
Sucker know you're listenin so please get off of it<br />
A score and two years ago began the ?uestion's mission<br />
South of 52nd street, on ?<br />
And anybody wanna diss the sure shot body rock<br />
Fresh flowin dude, we can take it to the stage<br />
Sucker, foreign objects coming soon<br />
From the rat cave to a room with a view<br />
My brother's b.g., and my band is josh u<br />
And the stank whole rhythmic funk, plus my nuc'<br />
You can comprehend the verbal letters that i send<br />
Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, like boyz ii men<br />
I don't have a benz-y shoes are walkin like jimmy<br />
Make em say, "yo ?uestion's demi," make em squeal like ?<br />
Man, yo, i jams on every gram<br />
Move out the way, i gets on, rockin round the clock<br />
In school i used to doodle, nowadays i use my noodle<br />
And i'll be rockin planets, and soon i'm livin fatter<br />
I'm a levelheaded son who knows where i came from<br />
Umm, lights, camera... ?uestion<br />
<br />
[? ? ?]<br />
Get loose, get loose, black thought get loose<br />
And just rock heartbeat showin you got the juice<br />
And have fun (have fun) have fun (have fun)<br />
Have, have, have fun!!!!<br />
<br />
[black thought]<br />
Well umm, yik-yik yak-yak, chi-chi-chi-ka-splack<br />
Thoughts that i stutter and brother that i left back behind<br />
Lines of swine i'm qualified for groovy stew achoo<br />
I caught the boogie like the flu and god bless the black<br />
Cardiac cerebral abstract cathedral<br />
The mental is the temple and the central sees you tryin to flam!<br />
Man i catch a lift like bob mar-ley, and par-lay<br />
On airy clouds i drop, bombs like a sau-di, arabian<br />
Flocks i rocks like fabian<br />
It's the nipple sex upon the grits that call me baby and<br />
Run a finger, through the knaps of the rap, singer that<br />
Pull a scat, from the stack, that i keep in the shack<br />
Of my soul, bring the bowl i got the flat out good<br />
That's why i'm dug by the hippies plus the pimps and hoods<br />
In the slum, could i umm, come, should i umm, come<br />
Yes i does, and gets down said i wasn't know that i was<br />
But they gel, that's why they blow up cause they didn't give spect<br />
To the erector of the foreign object, i collect, to preserve<br />
Plus develop and envelop in the roots of rhyme<br />
Yo that's the end of the line, i got mine, and i'm out<br />
<br />
[brother ?uestion]<br />
A-ha! ahh, suki suki now<br />
It's the brother ?uestion<br />
And now you know how it is<br />
When the foreign objects get wreck<br />
Like that, yeah, ha ha ha<br />
And we out y'all, and we out y'all<br />
And we out y'all, and we out y'all<br />
And we out y'all...
