[Black From the Tunnels in the wee hours of the morning The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects family tree This is mad All the way from Philly, we got the hip-hop coalition called the Foreign Objects in like dat, now dig
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Trotter, a.k.a. [BT/Tariq Well um, Black from The Roots y'all
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Simmons, a.k.a. [AJ/Joseph A.J. Shine, The Dollar Sign, funky
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. Pitts] Lord Akil, social
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Greene, a.k.a. [MM/Tony from Sector 6 it's Mr. Manifest
[?uestion/Ahmir Ms. Thompson, a.k.a. Thompson] Shorty... (Oooooh!)
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Cee, a.k.a. ? ? ?] Myself, me and I
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Dorsey, a.k.a. Dorsey] Pazi Plant, The 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)
?uestion] And we the Objects (yeah, yeah) And like this..
Now get loose, get loose, B get loose And just rock heartbeat you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Blunt] Yes, I will address and press my microphone me-ssiah, am the best Yes-I am quick to go because I'm equipped to flow a script I will just slay and disobey, I will display banana that slaughter the words and the herds of the verbs I gots the urge to splurge, like a Bosnian A-drift I means a-draft I means I riff I I raff Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't want no tro-phy So okey-dokey folks, most provoke me ? so your ? was willin, I'm strollin with the quotes Like Shakespeare, Twain, or Edgar Allan Poe But since I'm a ne-gro, I flows Maya Ange-lou No banja-lo was played, I means betrayed so the guitar, had to take the off, and slay You might think I'm a or an amateur, but put me on a or a channel I'll dismantle like the vandal-er I to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle this my man Emilio, what y'all should really know You get the picture, if you was in an orchard 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!!!!
[? ? ?] this as I get rugged with the scrpiture Evacuatin scenes, thoughts like a drifter I exit through my state of elevation, unifying grains the force 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 and created So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting what I ya through the cellar cause I be the freak of nature With, the images I hold in my head I be the kid the Fifth, so y'all holding what I've said I've said, I be the omnipresent from the void Fatter is the flow, so my styling is I'm ragged, worn bagged, and umm the be my home so I shouts to the slum Come, the misfit's got a tale, take you on a mad The thoughts I'm too deep, you down, I creeps round, the lowest of the levels, the positive raps that kill 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 brought to mind what's missing
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, Pazi get loose And rock 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 major The ? out, so soul rhythmatic to the static when it plays, levels the bass They chase but they'll never my patt-er-ns Soul surrounds this Plant like the upon Sa-tur-n Yo, I'm fatter than many, came to away any job Umm, cat, conniver if it's I'm liable take portion cause I'll fly that ? Dig the jazz that's closets from the Paz bugged Groovy like the nickel bag of love, through the groovy fuzz, Plants is the Mad abornmal, is my flow, much confusion, in My scenario's too advanced'n, for If it's violation, power, will shower ya now you're falling, and crawling Cause your styles are not poetically correct to I'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, cause my status be that is the coolest kid to do a bid on with the grammar be blamma, back in eighty-three I was the Grand Fruit Jammer, but now I down and shit with the Foreign Objects.. Yeah 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 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 raise hell, you back, your tape's ill Show me just 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, Stuff you had swinging, a monkey, I'm always hanging 'round, 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 52nd Street, word up Word to life, is bond, word to God I'm like the he's like a bean I guess the stage is like a pod, ain't no I kiss a licorice and any miss I wish to or else I diss like this So I step to the left, the mic, catch my breath then, watch the Object catch wreck, uhh
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Shorty get And just rock heartbeat you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Shorty No Can I it? I kicks it for the so I kick it for you I nag a dog and note to Billy - I gets down Sound's got a lot I got my own I'm passes Asses are grabbed, when I with The Roots Suits, I got none, but off that accoutrements ever since I at the thought 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 I don't need it I got problems, can you help me out? Shout a little louder if you're that you hear me Fear me not, I'm just another girl Curls in my head, and yeah I I look good I be the one, to break the bad news? Snooze I'm tired, not when I'm hype, your type Yo I just off!
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Manifest get And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Mr. Introducing for the year of ninety-three The brainchild is about to kick the groovy speak out the head, for the hardrocks Here to the ghetto beats for the blocks You can dig the styles cause the are for the digging A fat sack of soul, how the Sector roll Never fake material, why should I? The mind is so equipped to rip, so why I give you less that, you in fact, this is where it's at cause lyrics I've provided is to swing the bat and shake up the from New York to Montego It's all the lyrics, it's not about the ego Quick to make a jam and sound like the pro that I am It's profound, the kids from the underground Every single is prepared, in the hunt for the metro with of fat loops and funky lingo being felt, all over in the fifty states Breaking more beats my moms breaks the china plates Transmitting, hitting areas we freak with when we come to planet Earth, with a trunk of fat, doing work on the everyday Here to bring the swing my man Donny Hathaway Just, follow the line, and do what we do Because you get a grip, if you want your shit
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, Lord get loose And just rock heartbeat you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Lord Umm, the Southern side of Philly yet of The Roots there comes me, 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, I'm crazy thorough No offspring running 'round but no my penile is not Collects the crazy papes from, crazy tapes, umm Big heads be gettin swollen, I crush em just grapes The level that I'm zoning, the one on the third Eatin buds or mad grass that you HIGHER than a bird Kinks, be in the head, I leave the curls to Jheri Got mad souls out the ass with shit, fat like William A poor black kid rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats Straight the underground, found new life on the South Streets We ? off the jams will uplift the people's souls Cause the Objects that are Foreign, the kids with clothes are the cats I'm coolin with, when we be together Two and two equals four but Foreign Objects be So, just let me flow as I reach up to the next And then you'll give me my Uhh, I'm a Foreign Object
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, A.J. Shine get And just rock heart-beat showin you got the And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[A.J. First off, I'm burstin off of gab and lifted by the gift, I start to jab The rhymes that I grab send schools to the As I write scores, the funky orator's on next ish lookin for the fish with a wish that used to be a duck but now you're dumbstruck Trying to hang but you swim I think you're fucked You traded in blues 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 defuse Yeahhh, to rock all of you rockers When I carry the ball, I stay be-hind my I move swift, I no lift I don't have to because I shift the gift and now my is Joseph Simmons, but I'm not Run With the mic in my hand, I've only begun to hold mine, I'ma plus a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How many times must I to say this I miss yo when I display? From I paint the funky 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 of the rest of the flock And now you're walkin the hallways of the Always Jock Abbreviated A.J. for the day Bustin in your face while I'm fadin away It's that y'all, and ya don't stop The Bid on the root with the hip-hop
Thought] Now.. get loose, get loose, ?uestion get And, rock heart-beat YOU got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
?uestion] It's me the BROther ?uestion on the to flow To bust a fat rat-a-tat one mo' gen' I'm flexin my mental verbalistic chocolate Sucker know you're listenin so get off of it A score and two years ago began the mission South of Street, on ? and anybody wanna diss the sure body rock fresh dude, we can take it to the stage Sucker, Foreign coming soon From the rat cave to a with a view My brother's B.G., and my band is U And the stank whole funk, plus my nuc' You can comprehend the verbal letters I send Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, Boyz II Men I don't have a Benz-y shoes are walkin Jimmy em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," make em squeal like ? Man, yo, I jams on gram 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 I'm livin fatter I'm a levelheaded son who where I came from Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Thought get loose And just rock heartbeat 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 of swine I'm qualified for groovy stew achoo I caught the like the flu and God Bless the Black cerebral abstract cathedral The mental is the temple and the central sees you to flam! Man I a lift like Bob Mar-ley, and par-lay On airy clouds I drop, bombs a Sau-di, Arabian I rocks like Fabian It's the sex upon the grits that call me baby and run a finger, through the knaps of the rap, that pull a scat, from the stack, I keep in the shack of my soul, bring the bowl I got the flat out That's why I'm dug by the hippies plus the and hoods in the slum, could I umm, come, I umm, come Yes I does, and gets down said I wasn't know I was but they gel, that's why they blow up cause didn't give spect to the of the Foreign Object, I collect, to preserve Plus develop and envelop in The of rhyme Yo the end of the line, I got mine, and I'm out
[Brother A-ha! Ahh, suki now It's the Brother and now you how it is when the Foreign Objects get 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...