[Black the Tunnels in the wee hours of the black morning From The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects tree is mad abstract All the way live from Philly, we got the hip-hop called the Foreign Objects in like dat, now dig
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Trotter, a.k.a. Trotter] Well um, Black from The Roots y'all
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Simmons, a.k.a. Simmons] A.J. Shine, The Dollar Sign, funky
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. [LA/Micah Akil, social misfit
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Greene, a.k.a. Greene] Straight from 6 it's Mr. Manifest
Thompson] Ms. Thompson, a.k.a. [SNM/Terresa Shorty... (Oooooh!)
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Cee, a.k.a. ? ? ?] Myself, me and I
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Dorsey, a.k.a. [PP/Jamal Pazi Plant, The Soul
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Armstead, a.k.a. Armstead] Bo-watt, The Priest
Thompson] Mr. Basset, a.k.a. [MB/Malik Malik Blizzunt, Objects
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. Thompson] BROther ?uestion, from Square y'all (yeah, ha-hah)
?uestion] And we the Foreign (yeah, yeah) And it's this..
Now get loose, get loose, B get loose And just rock showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Malik Yes, I will address and about my microphone me-ssiah, am the best siah? am quick to go because I'm equipped to flow a script I will just slay and disobey, I will display banana that slaughter with the and the herds of the verbs I gots the urge to splurge, like a Bosnian I means a-draft I means I riff I means I raff Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't want no brass So folks, most provoke me ? so hold your ? was willin, I'm strollin with the quotes Like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Allan Poe But since I'm a ne-gro, I flows like Ange-lou No was played, I means banjo betrayed so the guitar, had to take the bitch off, and You might think I'm a or an amateur, but put me on a panel or a channel I'll like the vandal-er I meants to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle like my man Emilio, what y'all really know You couldn't get the picture, if you was in an or fortress, (so you better forfeit)
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, ? get And just rock showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[? ? ?] Picture this as I get with the scrpiture Evacuatin scenes, spreadin thoughts a drifter I exit through my of greater elevation, unifying grains through the of the imagination, you dig what I'm saying? But I see your mind's tricks You you got the channel but you couldn't get a fix my mental -- I keep it complicated Explosion of the spirit cause I opened up my soul and So now you dig the flavor, you're what I gave ya Seeping through the cellar I be the freak of nature With, the images I hold in my head I be the kid from the Fifth, so y'all holding what I've I've said, I be the omnipresent factor from the Fatter is the flow, so my is employed I'm ragged, worn bagged, and umm the ghetto be my home so I to the slum Come, the misfit's got a tale, take you on a mad The unveil I'm too deep, you sinks down, I round, the lowest of the levels, the raps that kill devils The abstracts, and exact, knapsack's on the back Rip poetical flows upon the My thoughts escape onto a tape, play it back and listen, I brought to your what's missing
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Pazi get loose And just heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Pazi I'm hip to release ill units, I displays soul The ? out, so soul stays to the static it plays, levels from the bass chase but they'll never catch my patt-er-ns Soul surrounds this like the rings upon Sa-tur-n Yo, I'm fatter than many, to kick away any job Umm, cat, conniver if it's abstract I'm take portion cause I'll fly that ? Dig the jazz that's closets from the Paz be-low like the nickel bag of love, slidin through the fuzz, Plants is the buzz Mad abornmal, is my flow, confusion, enhanced in My too advanced'n, for duplication If it's violation, soul power, shower ya now you're falling, and crawling Cause your styles are infantile not poetically to test I'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, cause my be is the coolest kid to do a bid on fakers with the grammar that be blamma, in eighty-three I was the Grand Fruit Jammer, but now I down and wreck with the Foreign Objects.. that's right, the Foreign Objects
[BROther Ahhh yeah, now two check, two Now check it out, now it out Get loose, get loose, ? ? ? get loose And just rock heartbeat showin you got And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
? ? ?] Kinda like, ? catch, of the day is mad I raise heck, no raise hell, you plays back, tape's ill me just exactly what it is you want, I give you what we got We got flow, we got soul, we get off, a lot So up, your doors, cause I'm Busting Loose like Pryor, setting stuff on fire We got funky, you had swinging, like a monkey, I'm always 'round, living off of Vine as in West Philly, Street The kids be getting jay'd on the Swing my hat to the back, Kangol, no maybe 5 Not no treat, you get from 52nd Street, word up to life, word is bond, word to God I'm like the bean like a bean I guess the stage is a pod, ain't with no metamorphosistically I a licorice and any miss I wish to or else I diss like this So I to the left, drop the mic, catch my breath then, watch the Foreign Object wreck, uhh
?uestion] Get loose, get loose, Shorty get And just rock heartbeat showin you got And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Shorty No Can I it? I kicks it for the so I kick it for you I gotta nag a dog and to Billy - I gets down Sound's got a lot I got my own I'm throwin Asses are grabbed, when I swing The Roots Suits, I got none, but throwin off that ever since I at the thought of a dress Yes you might be wantin to me a tomboy Boy get it right, I'm still lovin men Send me love, don't ever think I don't need it Shit I got problems, can you help me Shout a little louder if you're sure you hear me Fear me not, I'm just another average Curls in my head, and yeah I think I look Should I be the one, to the bad news? when I'm tired, not when I'm hype, your type Yo I just off!
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Manifest get And just heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Mr. Introducing lyrics for the year of The black is about to kick the groovy out the head, provided for the hardrocks Here to resurrect the ghetto for the blocks You can dig the styles cause the styles are for the A fat sack of soul, that's how the roll Never making fake material, why I? The mind is so equipped to rip, so why I give you than that, you in fact, this is where it's at cause lyrics I've is about to swing the bat and up the levels from New York to Montego It's all about the lyrics, not about the ego Quick to make a jam and sound like the pro that I am profound, like the kids from the underground Every single is prepared, in the hunt for the metro with scoops of fat and funky lingo Level's being felt, all over in the fifty Breaking beats than my moms breaks the china plates Transmitting, hitting areas we freak with when we come to planet Earth, with a trunk of fat, Alert doing on the everyday to bring the swing like my man Donny Hathaway Just, follow the dotted line, and do we do Because you gotta get a grip, if you want shit
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, Lord Akil get And just rock heartbeat showin you got And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Lord Umm, from the Southern side of yet of The Roots there comes me, The janky brother of Mr. Bruce A jazz kid who flows, like the river Jordan Not fond of scooters, but I'll take an Accord and zoom right your borough, because I'm crazy thorough No offspring running 'round but no my is not sterile Collects the crazy from, selling crazy tapes, umm Big heads be gettin swollen, I em just like grapes The level that I'm zoning, the one on the third Eatin buds or mad grass that gets you HIGHER a bird Kinks, be in the head, I leave the curls to Jheri Got mad souls out the ass with shit, fat William Perry A poor black kid with rhythm, a eye for beats Straight from the underground, new life on the South Streets We ? off the that will uplift the people's souls Cause the Objects that are Foreign, the kids with clothes are the that I'm coolin with, when we be together Two and two equals but Foreign Objects be forever So, let me flow as I reach up to the next plateau And then you'll give me my Uhh, cause I'm a Object
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, A.J. Shine get And rock heart-beat showin you got the juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[A.J. First off, I'm off shots of gab and lifted by the gift, I start to jab The rhymes that I grab schools to the slab As I scores, the funky orator's gone on some next ish for the next fish with a wish that to be a duck but now you're dumbstruck Trying to hang but you swim I think you're fucked You traded in your for boom, tap shoes I do shows and change all views I get down, I go up as I up cause I got this O.M.B. rhyme you can't Yeahhh, here to all of you rockers When I carry the ball, I be-hind my blockers I move swift, I needs no I don't have to riff I shift the gift and now my name is Simmons, but I'm not Run With the mic in my hand, only just begun to hold mine, I'ma plus a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How many times I have to say this I never yo when I display? From styles I paint the funky I portray and before I hit the court I it my forte cause I got this, you can and get this, cause my method is the most and I boast so you can bet is like the of the rest of the flock And now walkin down the hallways of the Always Jock Abbreviated A.J. for the day rhymes in your face while I'm fadin away It's like that y'all, and ya don't The Bid on the root with the hip-hop
[Black Now.. get loose, get loose, ?uestion get And, rock heart-beat showin YOU got And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[BROther It's me the BROther on the M-I-C to flow To a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' gen' I'm flexin my mental verbalistic chocolate Sucker know you're so please get off of it A score and two years ago began the mission South of Street, on ? and anybody wanna diss the shot body rock fresh dude, we can take it to the stage Sucker, Objects coming soon From the rat cave to a room a view My brother's B.G., and my is Josh U And the whole rhythmic funk, plus my nuc' You can comprehend the verbal that I send Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, Boyz II Men I have a Benz-y shoes are walkin like Jimmy Make em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," em squeal like ? Man, yo, I on every gram out the way, I gets on, rockin round the clock In school I used to doodle, I use my noodle And be rockin planets, and soon I'm livin fatter I'm a levelheaded son who knows I came from Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Thought get loose And just rock heartbeat showin you got the And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Thought] Well umm, yak-yak, chi-chi-chi-ka-SPLACK that I stutter and brother that I left back behind Lines of swine I'm qualified for stew achoo I caught the boogie like the flu and God Bless the Cardiac cerebral cathedral The mental is the and the central sees you tryin to flam! Man I catch a lift like Bob Mar-ley, and On airy I drop, bombs like a Sau-di, Arabian Flocks I like Fabian the nipple sex upon the grits that call me baby and run a finger, through the knaps of the rap, singer pull a scat, from the stack, that I in the shack of my soul, the bowl I got the flat out good That's why I'm dug by the hippies plus the pimps and in the slum, could I umm, come, should I umm, Yes I does, and gets down said I know that I was but they gel, that's why they blow up cause they didn't give to the of the Foreign Object, I collect, to preserve Plus and envelop in The Roots of rhyme Yo the end of the line, I got mine, and I'm out
[Brother A-ha! Ahh, suki now It's the ?uestion and now you how it is when the Foreign get wreck that, yeah, ha ha ha And we out y'all, and we out And we out y'all, and we out And we out y'all...