[Black From the Tunnels in the wee of the black morning From The Roots sprout the Objects family tree This is mad All the way live from Philly, we got the coalition called the Foreign in effect It's dat, now dig
Thompson] Mr. Trotter, a.k.a. [BT/Tariq Well um, Black Thought from The y'all
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Simmons, a.k.a. Simmons] A.J. Shine, The Dollar Sign, bid'ness
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. Pitts] Lord Akil, social
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Greene, a.k.a. [MM/Tony 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 Plant, The Soul Plant
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Armstead, a.k.a. Armstead] Bo-watt, The Priest
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Basset, a.k.a. Basset] Malik Blizzunt, Objects
Thompson] Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. [B?/Ahmir BROther ?uestion, from Square Roots (yeah, ha-hah)
[BROther And we the Foreign (yeah, yeah) And it's this..
Now get loose, get loose, Malik B get And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Blunt] Yes, I address and press about my microphone me-ssiah, am the siah? Yes-I am most quick to go because I'm equipped to a script I will slay and disobey, I will display banana clips that slaughter the words and the herds of the verbs I gots the urge to splurge, like a Serb A-drift I means a-draft I means I I means I raff Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't want no brass So okey-dokey folks, most provoke me ? so hold ? was willin, cause I'm with the quotes Like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Allan Poe But I'm a ne-gro, I flows like Maya Ange-lou No banja-lo was played, I means banjo so the guitar, had to the bitch off, and slay You think I'm a rookie or an amateur, but put me on a panel or a channel I'll dismantle the vandal-er I meants to say the scandalous, vandalous, this like my man Emilio, what y'all should really You couldn't get the picture, if you was in an or fortress, (so you niggaz forfeit)
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, ? get And just rock heartbeat showin you got And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[? ? ?] Picture as I get rugged with the scrpiture Evacuatin scenes, spreadin thoughts a drifter I through my state of greater elevation, unifying grains through the of the imagination, you dig what I'm saying? But I see your mind's tricks You thought you got the but you couldn't get a fix upon my mental -- I keep it of the spirit cause I opened up my soul and created So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting I gave ya Seeping the cellar cause I be the freak of nature With, the images that I hold in my I be the kid from the Fifth, so y'all holding what said said, I be the omnipresent factor from the void Fatter is the flow, so my is employed I'm ragged, worn bagged, and umm the ghetto be my so I shouts to the slum Come, the misfit's got a tale, you on a mad trip The unveil I'm too deep, you sinks down, I creeps round, the of the levels, the positive raps that devils The abstracts, and exact, knapsack's on the back Rip poetical upon the track My thoughts escape a tape, you'll play it back and listen, I to your mind what's missing
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Plant get loose And just rock showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Plant] I'm hip to release ill units, I displays major The ? out, so stays rhythmatic to the static when it plays, levels the bass They chase but they'll catch my patt-er-ns Soul this Plant like the rings upon Sa-tur-n Yo, I'm fatter than many, came to away any job Umm, cat, if it's abstract I'm liable take portion cause fly that head ? Dig the jazz that's closets from the Paz be-low like the nickel bag of love, slidin through the groovy fuzz, Plants is the Mad abornmal, is my flow, much confusion, in My too advanced'n, for duplication If violation, soul power, will shower ya now you're falling, and crawling Cause your styles are infantile not correct to test I'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, my status be that is the kid to do a bid on fakers with the that be blamma, back in eighty-three I was the Fruit Jammer, but now I gets down and wreck shit with the Objects.. Yeah that's right, the Foreign
?uestion] Ahhh yeah, now two check, two Now it out, now check it out Get loose, get loose, ? ? ? get loose And just heartbeat showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
? ? ?] Kinda like, ? catch, of the day is mad I raise heck, no hell, you plays back, your 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 lock up, doors, cause I'm Busting Loose like Richard Pryor, setting stuff on We got funky, you had swinging, like a monkey, I'm always 'round, living off of Vine as in West Philly, 56th The be getting jay'd on the corner my hat to the back, Kangol, no maybe 5 Soul Not no bootleg treat, you get from 52nd Street, up Word to life, word is bond, to God I'm like the he's like a bean I guess the stage is like a pod, ain't no metamorphosistically I kiss a and any miss I wish to or else I diss like this So I to the left, drop the mic, catch my breath then, the Foreign Object catch wreck, uhh
?uestion] Get loose, get loose, get loose And just rock heartbeat you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
No Mas] Can I it? I kicks it for the others so I it for you I gotta nag a dog and note to Billy - I down got a lot I got my own I'm throwin passes Asses are grabbed, when I with The Roots Suits, I got none, but off that accoutrements ever since I winced at the of a dress Yes you might be to consider me a tomboy Boy get it right, I'm strictly lovin men Send me your love, don't ever think I don't it I got problems, can you help me out? Shout a little louder if you're sure that you me Fear me not, I'm just another average Curls in my head, and yeah I think I good Should I be the one, to the bad news? Snooze I'm tired, not when I'm hype, your type Yo I came off!
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Manifest get And just rock heartbeat you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Mr. lyrics for the year of ninety-three The black brainchild is about to the groovy out the head, provided for the hardrocks Here to resurrect the ghetto for the blocks You can dig the cause the styles are for the digging A fat sack of soul, that's how the roll Never making fake material, why I? The mind is so to rip, so why would I give you than that, you in fact, this is where it's at cause lyrics I've provided is to swing the bat and shake up the levels from New York to all about the lyrics, it's not about the ego Quick to make a jam and slam like the pro that I am profound, like the kids from the underground Every single lyric is prepared, in the for the metro scoops of fat loops and funky lingo Level's being felt, all over in the states Breaking more beats my moms breaks the china plates Transmitting, areas we freak with funk when we come to planet Earth, with a of fat, soul Alert doing on the everyday Here to bring the like my man Donny Hathaway Just, follow the line, and do what we do Because you gotta get a grip, if you your shit
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Akil get loose And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Lord Umm, from the Southern side of Philly yet of The there me, who? The little brother of Mr. Bruce A jazz kid who flows, like the river Jordan Not fond of Honda scooters, but I'll an Accord and zoom right through your borough, because I'm thorough No running 'round but no my penile is not sterile the crazy papes from, selling crazy tapes, umm Big heads be gettin swollen, I crush em like grapes The level that I'm zoning, the one that's on the Eatin buds or mad grass that you HIGHER than a bird Kinks, be in the head, cause I the curls to Jheri Got mad souls out the ass shit, fat like William Perry A poor black kid rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats from the underground, found new life on the South Streets We ? off the jams that will the people's souls Cause the that are Foreign, the kids with baggy clothes are the cats I'm coolin with, when we be together Two and two equals four but Objects be forever So, just let me flow as I reach up to the plateau And then give me my respect Uhh, cause I'm a Foreign
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, A.J. Shine get And just heart-beat showin you got the juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[A.J. off, I'm burstin off shots of gab and gettin by the gift, I start to jab The that I grab send schools to the slab As I write scores, the funky gone on some next ish for the next fish with a wish that used to be a but now you're stuck Trying to hang but you can't swim I think you're You traded in your for boom, tap shoes I do and change all opposing views I get down, I go up as I up cause I got this O.M.B. rhyme you can't Yeahhh, to rock all of you rockers I carry the ball, I stay be-hind my blockers I move swift, I needs no I don't have to riff because I shift the and now my is Joseph Simmons, but I'm not Run the mic in my hand, I've only just begun to mine, I'ma goldmine plus a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How many times must I to say I never miss yo when I display? From styles I paint the picture I portray and before I hit the court I made it my I got this, you can come and get this, cause my method is the and I boast so you can bet this is like the best of the rest of the And now you're walkin the hallways of the Always Jock Abbreviated A.J. for the day Bustin rhymes in your face while I'm away It's that y'all, and ya don't stop The funky Bid on the root the hip-hop
Thought] Now.. get loose, get loose, ?uestion get And, rock heart-beat showin YOU got And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[BROther me the BROther ?uestion on the M-I-C to flow To bust a fat rat-a-tat one mo' gen' I'm flexin with my mental verbalistic Sucker you're listenin so please get off of it A and two years ago began the ?uestion's mission of 52nd Street, on ? and wanna diss the sure shot body rock fresh dude, we can take it to the stage Sucker, Foreign coming soon the rat cave to a room with a view My brother's B.G., and my band is U And the stank whole rhythmic funk, plus my You can comprehend the letters that I send Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, like II Men I don't have a Benz-y shoes are walkin Jimmy Make em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," em squeal like ? Man, yo, I jams on every Move out the way, I gets on, round the clock In school I to doodle, nowadays I use my noodle And I'll be rockin planets, and soon I'm fatter I'm a levelheaded son who where I came from Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Black Thought get And just heartbeat showin you got the juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Thought] Well umm, yik-yik yak-yak, Thoughts that I stutter and brother that I back behind Lines of swine I'm qualified for stew achoo I caught the boogie like the flu and God the Black cerebral abstract cathedral The mental is the temple and the central sees you to flam! Man I catch a lift Bob Mar-ley, and par-lay On airy clouds I drop, bombs a Sau-di, Arabian Flocks I like Fabian It's the nipple sex upon the grits call me baby and run a finger, the knaps of the rap, singer that a scat, from the stack, that I keep in the shack of my soul, bring the bowl I got the out good That's why I'm dug by the hippies the pimps and hoods in the slum, I umm, come, should I umm, come Yes I does, and gets down I wasn't know that I was but they gel, that's why they blow up they didn't give spect to the erector of the Foreign Object, I collect, to 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...