[Black From the in the wee hours of the black morning From The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects tree is mad abstract All the way live from Philly, we got the coalition called the Foreign in effect like dat, now dig
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Trotter, a.k.a. Trotter] Well um, Black Thought from The Roots
Thompson] Mr. Simmons, a.k.a. [AJ/Joseph A.J. Shine, The Dollar Sign, funky
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Pitts, a.k.a. [LA/Micah Lord Akil, social
Thompson] Mr. Greene, a.k.a. [MM/Tony Straight from 6 it's Mr. Manifest
[?uestion/Ahmir Ms. Thompson, a.k.a. Thompson] Shorty... (Oooooh!)
Thompson] Mr. Cee, a.k.a. ? ? ?] Myself, me and I
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Dorsey, a.k.a. Dorsey] Pazi Plant, The Plant
Thompson] Mr. Armstead, a.k.a. [Bo/Conway Bo-watt, The Rhythmic
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Basset, a.k.a. [MB/Malik Malik Blizzunt, Foreign
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. [B?/Ahmir BROther ?uestion, from Square y'all (yeah, ha-hah)
?uestion] And we the Foreign (yeah, yeah) And it's this..
Now get loose, get loose, B get loose And just heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Blunt] Yes, I will address and press about my me-ssiah, am the best siah? am most quick to go because I'm equipped to a script I will just slay and disobey, I will banana clips slaughter with 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 no brass tro-phy So okey-dokey folks, provoke me ? so hold your ? was willin, I'm strollin with the quotes Like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Edgar Poe But since I'm a ne-gro, I flows like Maya No banja-lo was played, I banjo betrayed so the guitar, had to take the bitch off, and You might think I'm a or an amateur, but put me on a panel or a channel I'll dismantle the vandal-er I meants to say the scandalous, vandalous, 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 niggaz 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 rugged with the Evacuatin scenes, thoughts like a drifter I through my state of greater elevation, unifying through the force of the imagination, you dig what I'm saying? But I see your mind's playing You thought you got the but you couldn't get a fix upon my mental -- I keep it Explosion of the spirit cause I up my soul and created So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting what I ya Seeping through the 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 I've said I've said, I be the omnipresent from the void Fatter is the flow, so my is employed I'm ragged, pants bagged, and umm the ghetto be my 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 round, the lowest of the levels, the positive that kill devils The abstracts, right and exact, knapsack's on the Rip poetical upon the track My escape onto a tape, you'll play it back and listen, I brought to your what's missing
[BROther Now get loose, get loose, Pazi get loose And just heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) 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 it plays, levels from the bass They chase but they'll never my patt-er-ns Soul surrounds Plant like the rings upon Sa-tur-n Yo, I'm than many, came to kick away any job Umm, cat, conniver if abstract I'm liable take portion I'll fly that head ? Dig the jazz that's closets from the Paz be-low Groovy the nickel bag of love, slidin through the groovy fuzz, is the buzz Mad abornmal, is my flow, much confusion, in My scenario's too advanced'n, for If it's violation, soul power, will ya defenses now falling, and crawling your styles are infantile 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 that be blamma, in eighty-three I was the Fruit Jammer, but now I gets down and wreck shit the Foreign Objects.. Yeah that's right, the Objects
?uestion] Ahhh yeah, now two check, two Now check it out, now it out Get loose, get loose, Myself ? ? ? get And rock heartbeat showin you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) 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 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 stuff on We got funky, Stuff you had swinging, a monkey, I'm always hanging 'round, off of Vine as in West Philly, 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, word is bond, to God I'm like the bean like a bean I guess the stage is like a pod, with 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 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 gets Sound's got a lot I got my own I'm passes Asses are grabbed, when I swing The Roots Suits, I got none, but throwin off accoutrements ever I winced at the thought of a dress Yes you be wantin to consider me a tomboy Boy get it right, I'm still lovin men Send me your love, ever 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 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 I'm hype, your type Yo I came off!
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Manifest get And rock 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 black is about to kick the groovy out the head, provided for the hardrocks Here to the ghetto beats for the blocks You can dig the styles the styles are for the digging A fat of soul, that's how the Sector roll Never making material, why should I? The is so equipped to rip, so why would I give you less than that, you in fact, is where it's at cause lyrics I've provided is to swing the bat and shake up the levels New York to Montego It's all the lyrics, it's not about the ego Quick to a jam and slam sound like the pro that I am profound, like the kids from the underground Every single is prepared, in the hunt for the metro with of fat loops and funky lingo Level's being felt, all over in the fifty Breaking more beats than my moms the china plates Transmitting, hitting areas we freak funk when we come to planet Earth, a trunk of fat, soul Alert doing on the everyday Here to bring the like my man Donny Hathaway Just, follow the line, and do what we do Because you gotta get a grip, if you want your
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, Lord get loose And just rock heartbeat you got juice And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Akil] Umm, from the side of Philly yet of The Roots there me, who? The janky little brother of Mr. A jazz kickin kid who flows, like the Jordan Not fond of Honda scooters, but I'll an Accord and zoom right through borough, because I'm crazy thorough No offspring running but no my penile is not sterile Collects the crazy from, selling crazy tapes, umm Big heads be gettin swollen, I crush em just grapes The level that I'm zoning, the one that's on the Eatin buds or mad grass that gets you than a bird Kinks, be in the head, cause I the curls to Jheri Got mad souls out the ass with shit, fat like William A poor kid with rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats from the underground, found new life on the South Streets We ? off the jams that will uplift the people's Cause the Objects that are Foreign, the kids baggy clothes are the cats that I'm coolin with, we be together Two and two equals four but Foreign be forever So, just let me flow as I reach up to the next And then give me my respect Uhh, cause I'm a Foreign
[BROther 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 lifted by the gift, I start to jab The rhymes that I grab schools to the slab As I scores, the funky orator's gone on some next ish for the next fish a wish that used to be a duck but now you're stuck Trying to hang but you can't swim I think 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 I got this O.M.B. rhyme you can't defuse Yeahhh, to rock all of you rockers When I carry the ball, I be-hind my blockers I move swift, I needs no I don't to riff because I shift the gift and now my is Joseph Simmons, but I'm not Run With the mic in my hand, I've just begun to hold mine, I'ma 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 styles I paint the funky 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 most and I so you can bet this is like the best of the of the flock And now walkin down the hallways of the Always Jock A.J. here for the day Bustin rhymes in your face while I'm away It's like 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 showin YOU got And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[BROther me the BROther ?uestion on the M-I-C to flow To a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' gen' I'm flexin with my mental verbalistic Sucker know you're listenin so get off of it A score and two years ago the ?uestion's mission South of Street, on ? and anybody wanna diss the sure body rock fresh dude, we can take 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 stank whole rhythmic funk, my nuc' You can comprehend the verbal letters I send Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, like II Men I don't have a shoes are walkin like Jimmy Make em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," em squeal like ? Man, yo, I on every gram Move out the way, I gets on, rockin round the In school I used to doodle, nowadays I use my And I'll be planets, and soon I'm livin fatter I'm a levelheaded son who knows I came from Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Thought 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 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 Cardiac abstract cathedral The mental is the temple and the central sees you to flam! Man I catch a lift Bob Mar-ley, and par-lay On airy clouds I drop, bombs like a Sau-di, Flocks I rocks like 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, 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 hippies the pimps and hoods in the slum, I umm, come, should I umm, come Yes I does, and gets down said I wasn't that I was but they gel, that's why they blow up cause they give spect to the erector of the Foreign Object, I collect, to Plus develop and envelop in The Roots of 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 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...