[Black From the Tunnels in the wee of the black 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 Objects in effect like dat, now dig
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Trotter, a.k.a. [BT/Tariq Well um, Black Thought The Roots y'all
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Simmons, a.k.a. [AJ/Joseph A.J. Shine, The Sign, funky bid'ness
Thompson] Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. [LA/Micah Lord Akil, social
Thompson] Mr. Greene, a.k.a. [MM/Tony from Sector 6 it's Mr. Manifest
[?uestion/Ahmir Ms. Thompson, a.k.a. [SNM/Terresa Shorty... (Oooooh!)
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Cee, a.k.a. ? ? ?] Myself, me and I
Thompson] Mr. Dorsey, a.k.a. [PP/Jamal Pazi Plant, The Soul
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Armstead, a.k.a. [Bo/Conway Bo-watt, The Priest
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Basset, a.k.a. [MB/Malik Blizzunt, Foreign Objects
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. [B?/Ahmir ?uestion, from Square Roots y'all (yeah, ha-hah)
[BROther And we the Objects (yeah, yeah) And like this..
Now get loose, get loose, Malik B get And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Malik Yes, I will address and about 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 display banana clips that slaughter with the and the herds of the verbs I gots the urge to splurge, like a Bosnian A-drift I means I means I riff I means I raff Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't no brass tro-phy So folks, most provoke me ? so hold your ? was willin, cause I'm strollin 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 banjo betrayed so the guitar, had to the bitch off, and slay You might I'm a rookie or an amateur, but put me on a panel or a channel I'll dismantle like the I meants to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle like my man Emilio, y'all should really know You get the picture, if you was in an orchard or fortress, (so you niggaz forfeit)
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, ? get And just heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[? ? ?] Picture this as I get rugged the scrpiture scenes, spreadin thoughts like a drifter I exit my state of greater elevation, unifying grains the force of the imagination, you dig what I'm But I see your mind's playing tricks You thought you got the channel but you get a fix upon my mental -- I it complicated Explosion of the cause I opened up my soul and created So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting I gave ya Seeping through the cellar I be the freak of nature With, the images that I in my head I be the kid from the Fifth, so y'all what I've said I've said, I be the factor from the void Fatter is the flow, so my styling is I'm ragged, worn bagged, and umm the ghetto be my home so I shouts to the Come, the misfit's got a tale, take you on a mad The thoughts I'm too deep, you sinks down, I creeps round, the of the levels, the positive raps kill devils The abstracts, and exact, knapsack's on the back Rip poetical upon the track My thoughts escape onto a tape, play it back and listen, I to your mind what's missing
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Pazi Plant get And just heartbeat showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Pazi I'm hip to ill units, I displays major soul The ? out, so stays rhythmatic to the static it plays, levels from the bass chase but they'll never catch my patt-er-ns Soul surrounds this Plant the rings upon Sa-tur-n Yo, I'm fatter than many, to kick away any job Umm, cat, conniver if it's I'm liable portion cause I'll fly that head ? Dig the jazz that's closets from the Paz bugged Groovy like the nickel bag of love, through the groovy fuzz, is the buzz Mad abornmal, is my flow, confusion, enhanced in My scenario's too advanced'n, for If it's violation, soul power, shower ya defenses now falling, and crawling Cause your are infantile not poetically correct to test I'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, my status be that is the coolest kid to do a bid on 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.. that's right, the Foreign Objects
[BROther Ahhh yeah, now two check, two Now it out, now check it out Get loose, get loose, Myself ? ? ? get And just rock heartbeat you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
? ? ?] like, ? catch, of the day is mad wreck I raise heck, no hell, you plays back, your tape's ill Show me 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 like Richard Pryor, setting stuff on fire We got funky, you had swinging, like a monkey, I'm always hanging 'round, off of Vine as in West Philly, 56th The kids be getting jay'd on the Swing my hat to the back, Kangol, no 5 Soul Not no treat, you get from 52nd Street, word up Word to life, 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 I wish to kiss or else I diss like this So I to the left, drop the mic, catch my breath then, watch the Foreign catch wreck, uhh
?uestion] Get loose, get loose, Shorty get And just rock heartbeat showin you got And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
No Mas] Can I it? I it for the others 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 throwin Asses are grabbed, when I with The Roots Suits, I got none, but off that accoutrements ever I winced at the thought of a dress Yes you might be wantin to consider me a Boy get it right, I'm strictly lovin men Send me your love, don't ever think I need it Shit I got problems, can you help me Shout a little louder if you're sure that you me Fear me not, I'm just another girl Curls in my head, and yeah I think I look I be the one, to break the bad news? Snooze when I'm tired, not when I'm hype, type Yo I just off!
[BROther Get loose, get loose, get loose And just heartbeat showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have 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, provided for the Here to resurrect the ghetto for the blocks You can dig the styles cause the are for the digging A fat sack of soul, that's how the Sector Never making material, why should I? The mind is so equipped to rip, so why I you less than that, you in fact, this is where it's at cause lyrics provided is about to swing the bat and shake up the from New York to Montego It's all about the lyrics, it's not the ego to make a jam and slam sound like the pro that I am It's profound, like the from the underground Every single is prepared, in the hunt for the metro with scoops of fat loops and lingo Level's being felt, all over in the states Breaking more beats than my breaks the china plates Transmitting, hitting we freak with funk when we come to planet Earth, with a trunk of fat, doing work on the everyday Here to bring the like my man Donny Hathaway Just, the dotted 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 fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Lord Umm, from the Southern of Philly yet of The Roots there comes me, The janky little brother of Mr. A jazz kickin kid who flows, like the Jordan Not of Honda scooters, but I'll take an Accord and zoom right through your borough, because I'm crazy No offspring running 'round but no my is not sterile the crazy papes from, selling crazy tapes, umm Big heads be gettin swollen, I crush em just grapes The that I'm zoning, the one that's on the third Eatin buds or mad grass that gets you HIGHER than a Kinks, be in the head, cause I leave the curls to Got mad souls out the ass with shit, fat like William A poor kid with rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats Straight from the underground, found new life on the South We ? off the that will uplift the people's souls the Objects that are Foreign, the kids with baggy clothes are the that I'm coolin with, when we be together Two and two four but Foreign Objects be forever So, just let me flow as I reach up to the plateau And you'll give me my respect Uhh, cause I'm a Foreign
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, A.J. get loose And just heart-beat showin you got the juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[A.J. off, I'm burstin off shots of gab and gettin lifted by the gift, I to jab The rhymes that I grab schools to the slab As I scores, the funky orator's gone on some ish lookin for the next fish with a that used to be a duck but now you're stuck Trying to hang but you can't swim I you're fucked You traded in your blues for boom, tap 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, here to rock all of you When I carry the ball, I be-hind my blockers I move swift, I no lift I don't to riff because I shift the gift and now my name is Simmons, but I'm not Run the mic in my hand, I've only just begun to hold mine, I'ma plus a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How many must I have to say this I miss yo when I display? From styles I paint the funky picture I and I hit the court I made it my forte cause I got this, you can come and get this, my method is the most and I so you can bet this is like the best of the rest of the And now you're walkin down the hallways of the Always Abbreviated A.J. for the day Bustin in your face while I'm fadin away It's like that y'all, and ya don't The funky Bid on the with the hip-hop
Thought] Now.. get loose, get loose, get loose And, heart-beat showin YOU got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
?uestion] It's me the ?uestion on the M-I-C to flow To a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' gen' I'm flexin with my verbalistic chocolate Sucker know you're so please get off of it A score and two years ago 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 Objects soon From the rat cave to a with a view My brother's B.G., and my band is U And the whole rhythmic funk, plus my nuc' You can comprehend the verbal that 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 out the way, I gets on, rockin round the clock In school I used to doodle, nowadays I use my And I'll be rockin planets, and soon I'm fatter I'm a son who knows where I came from Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Black Thought get And just rock heartbeat showin you got the And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Black Well umm, yak-yak, chi-chi-chi-ka-SPLACK Thoughts that I stutter and brother that I back behind of swine I'm qualified for groovy stew achoo I caught the boogie like the flu and God Bless the Cardiac cerebral abstract The mental is the temple and the central you tryin to flam! Man I catch a lift like Bob Mar-ley, and On clouds I drop, bombs like a Sau-di, Arabian Flocks I rocks Fabian It's the nipple sex upon the grits that call me and run a finger, through the of the rap, singer that pull a scat, 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 plus the pimps and hoods in the slum, I umm, come, should I umm, come Yes I does, and gets said I wasn't know that I was but they gel, that's why blow up cause they didn't give spect to the erector of the Foreign Object, I collect, to Plus develop and in The Roots of rhyme Yo the end of the line, I got mine, and I'm out
?uestion] A-ha! Ahh, suki now It's the ?uestion and now you how it is the Foreign Objects 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...