[Black From the Tunnels in the wee hours of the morning From The Roots sprout the Foreign family tree is mad abstract All the way live Philly, we got the hip-hop coalition the Foreign Objects in effect It's 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 Dollar Sign, funky
Thompson] Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. [LA/Micah Lord Akil, social
Thompson] Mr. Greene, a.k.a. [MM/Tony Straight from Sector 6 Mr. Manifest
Thompson] Ms. Thompson, a.k.a. [SNM/Terresa Shorty... (Oooooh!)
Thompson] Mr. Cee, a.k.a. ? ? ?] Myself, me and I
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Dorsey, a.k.a. [PP/Jamal Pazi Plant, The Soul
Thompson] Mr. Armstead, a.k.a. [Bo/Conway Bo-watt, The Priest
Thompson] Mr. Basset, a.k.a. [MB/Malik Malik Blizzunt, Objects
Thompson] Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. [B?/Ahmir BROther ?uestion, Square Roots y'all (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 about my microphone me-ssiah, am the best Yes-I am most quick to go because I'm equipped to flow a I will just slay and disobey, I will banana clips that slaughter with the words and the herds of the I gots the urge to splurge, a Bosnian Serb A-drift I means a-draft I means I I means I raff Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't want no tro-phy So folks, most provoke me ? so hold 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 like Ange-lou No was played, I means banjo betrayed so the guitar, had to the bitch off, and slay You might think I'm a or an amateur, but put me on a panel or a channel dismantle like the vandal-er I meants to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle like my man Emilio, what y'all should really 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 with the Evacuatin scenes, spreadin thoughts a drifter I exit through my state of elevation, unifying through the force of the imagination, you dig what I'm saying? But I see your playing tricks You you got the channel but you couldn't get a fix upon my mental -- I 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 the cellar cause 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 the void Fatter is the flow, so my is employed I'm ragged, pants 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 unveil I'm too deep, you sinks down, I creeps round, the of the levels, the positive raps that devils The abstracts, right and exact, on the back Rip poetical flows upon the My escape onto a tape, you'll play it back and listen, I brought to your mind what's
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Plant get loose And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Plant] I'm hip to ill units, I displays major soul The ? out, so soul stays to the static when it plays, from the bass They chase but they'll catch my patt-er-ns Soul surrounds this Plant like the 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 closets from the Paz be-low bugged like the nickel bag of love, slidin through the fuzz, Plants is the buzz Mad abornmal, is my flow, much confusion, in My too advanced'n, for duplication If violation, soul power, will shower ya defenses now falling, and crawling Cause your styles are not poetically correct to I'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, cause my status be is the coolest kid to do a bid on fakers with the that be blamma, back in eighty-three I was the Grand Jammer, but now I gets down and wreck with the Foreign Objects.. that's right, the Foreign Objects
[BROther yeah, now two check, two check Now it out, now check it out Get loose, get loose, ? ? ? get loose And just rock heartbeat 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 exactly what it is you want, I you what we got We got flow, we got soul, we get off, a lot So lock up, doors, cause I'm Loose like Richard Pryor, setting stuff on fire We got funky, Stuff you had swinging, a monkey, I'm always hanging 'round, living off of as in Philly, 56th Street The kids be jay'd on the corner Swing my hat to the back, Kangol, no 5 Soul Not no bootleg treat, you get from Street, word up Word to life, is bond, word to God I'm like the bean like a bean I guess the is like a pod, ain't with no I kiss a licorice and any miss I wish to kiss or else I diss like So I step to the left, the mic, catch my breath then, watch the Object catch wreck, uhh
[BROther Get loose, get loose, get loose And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have 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 to Billy - I gets down Sound's got a lot I got my own I'm passes are grabbed, when I swing with The Roots Suits, I got none, but off that accoutrements ever since I winced at the thought of a Yes you might be to consider me a tomboy Boy get it right, I'm still strictly men Send me your love, don't ever think I need it Shit I got problems, can you help me a little louder if you're sure that you hear me Fear me not, I'm just average 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!
?uestion] Get loose, get loose, Manifest get And just rock showin 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 to kick the groovy speak out the head, for the hardrocks Here to resurrect the ghetto beats for the You can dig the styles the styles are for the digging A fat sack of soul, that's how the roll Never fake material, why should I? The mind is so equipped to rip, so why I give you less than that, you in fact, this is it's at lyrics I've provided is about to swing the bat and shake up the levels from New 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 lyric is prepared, in the hunt for the metro scoops of fat loops and funky lingo Level's being felt, all over in the fifty Breaking more beats my moms breaks the china plates Transmitting, hitting areas we freak funk when we come to planet Earth, a trunk of fat, soul 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
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Akil get loose And just rock heartbeat you got juice 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 little brother of Mr. Bruce A kickin kid who flows, like the river Jordan Not fond of Honda scooters, but I'll an Accord and right through 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 crush em like grapes The level that I'm zoning, the one that's on the Eatin or mad grass that gets 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 Perry A black kid with rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats Straight from the underground, found new life on the Streets We ? off the jams that will uplift the people's Cause the Objects that are Foreign, the with baggy clothes are the that I'm coolin with, when we be together Two and two equals four but Foreign be forever So, just let me flow as I up to the next plateau And then you'll me my respect Uhh, cause I'm a Foreign
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, A.J. Shine get And just rock heart-beat showin you got the And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[A.J. First off, I'm burstin off of gab and gettin by the gift, I start to jab The rhymes that I send schools to the slab As I write scores, the orator's gone on next ish lookin for the next with a wish that used to be a duck but now you're dumbstruck Trying to but you can't swim I think you're fucked You traded in your for boom, tap shoes I do shows and change all opposing I get down, I go up as I up cause I got O.M.B. rhyme you can't defuse Yeahhh, to rock all of you rockers When I carry the ball, I stay my blockers I move swift, I needs no 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 mine, I'ma goldmine plus a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How many times I have to say this I never miss yo I display? From I paint the funky picture I portray and I hit the court I made it my forte cause I got this, you can and get this, cause my is the most and I boast so you can bet this is like the best of the of the flock And now you're down the hallways of the Always Jock A.J. here for the day Bustin rhymes in face while I'm fadin away like that y'all, and ya don't stop The funky Bid on the root the hip-hop
Thought] Now.. get loose, get loose, get loose And, rock heart-beat showin YOU got 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 bust a fat rhyme one mo' gen' I'm flexin with my verbalistic chocolate Sucker know you're listenin so get off of it A and two years ago began the ?uestion's mission of 52nd Street, on ? and anybody wanna diss the sure shot body fresh dude, we can take it to the stage Sucker, Foreign coming soon From the rat cave to a room with a My brother's B.G., and my band is U And the stank rhythmic funk, plus my nuc' You can comprehend the letters that I send Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, Boyz II Men I don't a Benz-y shoes are walkin like Jimmy Make em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," make em like ? Man, yo, I jams on gram Move out the way, I gets on, rockin round the 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 where I from Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Black get loose And just rock heartbeat showin you got the And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Thought] Well umm, yik-yik yak-yak, Thoughts that I stutter and brother that I left behind Lines of swine I'm for groovy stew achoo I caught the boogie like the flu and God Bless the cerebral abstract cathedral The mental is the temple and the central you tryin to flam! Man I catch a lift like Bob Mar-ley, and On airy clouds I drop, bombs a Sau-di, Arabian Flocks I rocks like 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, from the stack, that I keep in the of my soul, bring the I got the flat out good That's why I'm dug by the hippies plus the 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 gel, that's why they blow up cause they didn't give spect to the erector of the Object, I collect, to preserve Plus develop and in The Roots of rhyme Yo the end of the line, I got mine, and I'm out
[Brother A-ha! Ahh, suki now the Brother ?uestion and now you how it is when the 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...