[Black From the Tunnels in the wee of the black morning From The sprout the Foreign Objects family tree This is mad All the way live from Philly, we got the hip-hop called the Foreign in effect 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 Sign, funky bid'ness
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. Pitts] Lord Akil, misfit
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 Plant
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Armstead, a.k.a. Armstead] Bo-watt, The Priest
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Basset, a.k.a. [MB/Malik Malik Blizzunt, Objects
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. [B?/Ahmir BROther ?uestion, from Roots y'all (yeah, ha-hah)
[BROther And we the Foreign (yeah, yeah) And it's this..
Now get loose, get loose, Malik B get And just heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Blunt] Yes, I address and press about my microphone me-ssiah, am the best siah? am most quick to go I'm equipped to flow a script I will just slay and disobey, I display banana clips slaughter with the words and the herds of the verbs I gots the urge to splurge, a Bosnian Serb 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 me ? so hold your ? was willin, cause I'm strollin with the Like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Edgar 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 take the bitch off, and You think I'm a rookie or an amateur, but put me on a panel or a channel I'll like the vandal-er I to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle this like my man Emilio, what y'all 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 rock showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[? ? ?] Picture this as I get 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 But I see your mind's playing tricks You thought you got the but you couldn't get a fix upon my mental -- I it complicated of the spirit cause I opened up my soul and created 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 that I hold in my I be the kid from the Fifth, so y'all what I've said I've said, I be the omnipresent factor the void Fatter is the flow, so my styling is 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 thoughts I'm too deep, you down, I creeps round, the lowest 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 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 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 major soul The ? out, so soul rhythmatic to the static when it plays, levels the bass They but they'll never catch my patt-er-ns Soul surrounds this Plant the rings upon Sa-tur-n Yo, I'm fatter many, came to kick away any job Umm, cat, conniver if it's abstract I'm take portion I'll fly that head ? Dig the jazz closets from the Paz be-low bugged Groovy the nickel bag of love, slidin 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 styles are not poetically correct to test I'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, cause my 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 wreck shit the Foreign Objects.. Yeah right, the Foreign Objects
?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 Show me just exactly it is you want, I give you what we got We got flow, we got soul, we get off, a lot So lock up, your doors, I'm Loose like Richard Pryor, setting stuff on fire We got funky, you had swinging, like a monkey, I'm always 'round, living off of Vine as in West Philly, Street 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 to life, word is bond, word to God I'm the bean he's like a bean I guess the stage is like a pod, with no metamorphosistically I a licorice and any miss I to kiss or else I diss like this So I step to the left, drop the mic, catch my then, watch the Foreign catch wreck, uhh
?uestion] 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 others so I it for you I gotta nag a dog and note to Billy - I gets 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 since I winced at the 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 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 think I look Should I be the one, to the bad news? Snooze when I'm tired, not when I'm hype, your Yo I just off!
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Manifest get And just heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[Mr. Introducing lyrics for the year of The brainchild is about to kick the groovy speak out the head, provided for the to resurrect the ghetto beats for the blocks You can dig the styles cause the are for the digging A fat sack of soul, that's how the roll Never making fake material, why I? The is so equipped to rip, so why would I give you less than that, you in fact, this is where at cause lyrics provided is about to swing the bat and shake up the from New York to Montego all about the lyrics, it's not about the ego Quick to a jam and slam sound like the pro that I am It's profound, like the 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 than my moms breaks the plates Transmitting, hitting we freak with funk when we come to Earth, with a trunk of fat, soul Alert doing work on the Here to the swing like my man Donny Hathaway Just, follow the dotted line, and do we do Because you gotta get a grip, if you want shit
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, Lord Akil get 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 janky little 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 the crazy papes from, selling crazy tapes, umm Big be gettin swollen, I crush em just like grapes The level I'm zoning, the one that's on the third Eatin buds or mad that gets you HIGHER than a bird Kinks, be in the head, cause I leave the curls to Got mad souls out the ass shit, fat like William Perry A poor kid with rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats Straight from the underground, found new life on the South We ? off the jams that will uplift the souls Cause the Objects that are Foreign, the kids baggy clothes are the cats I'm coolin with, when we be together Two and two equals four but Foreign be forever So, just let me flow as I reach up to the plateau And you'll give me my respect Uhh, I'm a Foreign Object
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, A.J. get loose And just heart-beat showin you got the juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) 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 I grab send schools to the slab As I write scores, the funky orator's on some ish lookin for the next fish with a wish that to be a duck but now stuck dumbstruck Trying to hang but you can't swim I think you're You traded in your for boom, tap shoes I do shows and change all views I get down, I go up as I up cause I got this O.M.B. rhyme you can't Yeahhh, here to rock all of you I carry the ball, I stay be-hind my blockers I move swift, I no lift I don't have to riff because I shift the and now my name is Simmons, but I'm not Run With the mic in my hand, I've only begun to hold mine, goldmine plus a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How times must I have to say this I never yo when I display? From styles I 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 the best 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 like that y'all, and ya don't The funky Bid on the root with the
[Black Now.. get loose, get loose, ?uestion get And, rock showin 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 a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' gen' I'm flexin with my mental verbalistic know 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 flowin dude, we can it to the stage Sucker, Objects coming soon From the rat cave to a room a view My B.G., and my band is Josh 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 every Move out the way, I gets on, rockin the clock In school I to doodle, nowadays I use my noodle And be rockin planets, and soon I'm livin fatter I'm a son who knows 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, yak-yak, chi-chi-chi-ka-SPLACK Thoughts I stutter and brother that I left back behind Lines of swine I'm qualified for groovy achoo I the boogie like the flu and God Bless the Black cerebral abstract cathedral The mental is the and the central sees you tryin to flam! Man I catch a like Bob Mar-ley, and par-lay On airy clouds I drop, bombs like a Sau-di, Flocks I like Fabian It's the nipple sex the grits that call me baby and run a finger, through the knaps of the rap, that pull a scat, from the stack, that I in the shack of my soul, the bowl I got the flat out good That's why I'm dug by the hippies plus the and hoods in the slum, could I umm, come, should I umm, Yes I does, and gets down said I wasn't know I was but they gel, that's why they blow up they 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
?uestion] A-ha! Ahh, suki now the Brother ?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...