[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 />
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[?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 />
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[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 />
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[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 ill 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 />
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[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 />
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[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 />
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[? ? ?]<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...