[Black From the in the wee hours of the black morning From The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects tree This is mad All the way live from Philly, we got the coalition the Foreign Objects in effect It's dat, now dig
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Trotter, a.k.a. Trotter] Well um, Thought from The Roots y'all
Thompson] Mr. Simmons, a.k.a. [AJ/Joseph A.J. Shine, The Sign, funky bid'ness
Thompson] Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. [LA/Micah Akil, social misfit
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Greene, a.k.a. [MM/Tony Straight from Sector 6 Mr. Manifest
Thompson] 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 Plant, The Soul Plant
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Armstead, a.k.a. [Bo/Conway Bo-watt, The Rhythmic
Thompson] Mr. Basset, a.k.a. [MB/Malik Malik Blizzunt, Objects
Thompson] Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. [B?/Ahmir BROther ?uestion, from Square y'all (yeah, ha-hah)
[BROther And we the Objects (yeah, yeah) And it's this..
Now get loose, get loose, Malik B get And just rock heartbeat showin you got And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Malik Yes, I will address and press about my me-ssiah, am the siah? Yes-I am most quick to go I'm equipped to flow a script I will just slay and disobey, I display banana clips that slaughter with the words and the of the verbs I gots the urge to splurge, a Bosnian Serb A-drift I a-draft I means I riff I means I raff Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't no brass tro-phy So okey-dokey folks, most provoke me ? so hold ? was willin, cause I'm strollin with the Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Edgar Allan Poe But since I'm a ne-gro, I flows like Ange-lou No banja-lo was played, I means betrayed so the guitar, had to take the off, and slay You think I'm a rookie or an amateur, but put me on a panel or a channel I'll dismantle like the I to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle this my man Emilio, what y'all should 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 heartbeat 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 like a 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 it complicated Explosion of the spirit cause I opened up my soul and So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting what I ya Seeping through the cellar cause I be the freak of With, the images that I in my head I be the kid the Fifth, so y'all holding what I've said 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 be my home so I shouts to the slum Come, the got a tale, take 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 flows upon the My thoughts onto a tape, you'll play it back and listen, I brought to your mind what's
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, Pazi Plant get And just rock heartbeat 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 soul rhythmatic to the static it plays, levels from the bass They chase but they'll never my patt-er-ns surrounds this Plant like the rings upon Sa-tur-n Yo, I'm than many, came to kick away any job Umm, cat, conniver if it's abstract I'm take portion cause fly that head ? Dig the jazz that's closets the Paz be-low bugged Groovy like the bag of love, slidin the groovy fuzz, Plants is the buzz Mad abornmal, is my flow, confusion, enhanced in My too advanced'n, for duplication If it's violation, 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 that is the 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 gets and wreck with the Foreign Objects.. that's right, the Foreign Objects
[BROther yeah, now two check, two check Now check it out, now it out Get loose, get loose, Myself ? ? ? get And just rock heartbeat showin you got 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 plays back, your 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 up, your doors, cause I'm Busting Loose like Richard Pryor, setting on fire We got funky, you had swinging, like a monkey, I'm always hanging 'round, living off of as in Philly, 56th Street The kids be jay'd on the corner my hat to the back, Kangol, no maybe 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 he's like a I the stage is like a pod, ain't with no metamorphosistically I kiss a and any miss I wish to kiss or else I like this So I step to the left, drop the mic, my breath then, the Foreign Object catch wreck, uhh
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Shorty get And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Shorty No 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 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 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 your love, don't think I don't need it I got problems, can you help me out? Shout a little louder if you're sure that you me me not, I'm just another average girl Curls in my head, and I think I look 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 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 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 roll making fake material, why should 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 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 slam sound the pro that I am It's profound, like the kids the underground Every single lyric is prepared, in the for the metro with of fat loops and funky lingo Level's felt, all over in the fifty states more beats than my moms breaks the china plates Transmitting, hitting we freak with funk when we to planet Earth, with a trunk of fat, soul Alert doing work on the Here to bring the like my man Donny Hathaway Just, follow the dotted line, and do we do Because you get a grip, if you want your shit
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Lord Akil get And just rock heartbeat showin you got And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Akil] Umm, from the Southern of Philly yet of The Roots there me, who? The janky 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 papes from, selling 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 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 black kid with rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats from the underground, found new life on the South Streets We ? off the jams will uplift the people's souls the Objects that are Foreign, the kids with baggy clothes are the cats 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 next And you'll give me my respect Uhh, cause I'm a Object
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, A.J. get loose And just rock 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 send 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 stuck 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 I got this O.M.B. rhyme you can't defuse Yeahhh, here to rock all of you When I carry the ball, I stay be-hind my I move swift, I needs no 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 goldmine a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How many times I have to say I never miss yo when I display? From I paint the funky picture I portray and before I hit the court I it my forte cause I got this, you can come and get this, my method is the most and I boast so you can bet is like the best of the rest of the And now walkin down the hallways of the Always Jock Abbreviated A.J. for the day Bustin rhymes in your face while I'm 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, ?uestion get And, rock heart-beat YOU got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
?uestion] It's me the BROther ?uestion on the to flow To a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' gen' I'm flexin my mental verbalistic chocolate know you're listenin so please get off of it A score and two ago began the ?uestion's mission of 52nd Street, on ? and anybody diss the sure shot body rock fresh dude, we can take it to the stage Sucker, Foreign Objects coming the rat cave to a room with a view My B.G., and my band is Josh U And the stank rhythmic funk, plus my nuc' You can comprehend the letters that I send Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, like II Men I don't have a Benz-y are walkin like Jimmy Make em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," make em like ? Man, yo, I on every 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 came Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Black get loose And just rock heartbeat showin you got the And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Black Well umm, yik-yik yak-yak, Thoughts that I stutter and brother I left back behind Lines of swine I'm for groovy stew achoo I the boogie like the flu and God Bless the Black 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 clouds I drop, like a Sau-di, Arabian I rocks like Fabian It's the nipple sex upon the that call me baby 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 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 cause they didn't give to the erector of the Foreign Object, I collect, to Plus develop and envelop in The 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...