[Black From the Tunnels in the wee hours of the morning From The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects family This is mad All the way from Philly, we got the hip-hop coalition called the Objects in effect It's dat, now dig
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Trotter, a.k.a. [BT/Tariq 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 Lord Akil, social
Thompson] Mr. Greene, a.k.a. [MM/Tony Straight from 6 it's 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. Armstead] Bo-watt, The Priest
Thompson] Mr. Basset, a.k.a. [MB/Malik Malik Blizzunt, Objects
[?uestion/Ahmir Mr. Thompson, a.k.a. [B?/Ahmir ?uestion, from Square Roots y'all (yeah, ha-hah)
[BROther And we the Foreign (yeah, yeah) And it's 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 display banana that slaughter the words and the herds of the verbs I gots the to splurge, like a Bosnian Serb A-drift I means a-draft I means I riff I means I ca-tas-trophe, don't want no brass tro-phy So okey-dokey folks, provoke me ? so hold your ? was willin, cause I'm with the quotes Like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Allan 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 the bitch off, and slay You might I'm a rookie or an amateur, but put me on a or a channel I'll dismantle like the vandal-er 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 rock heartbeat you got juice And have fun (HAVE FUN) fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
[? ? ?] Picture as I get rugged with the scrpiture scenes, spreadin thoughts like a drifter I exit through my state of greater elevation, through the force of the imagination, you dig what I'm saying? But I see your playing tricks You thought you got the but you couldn't get a fix upon my -- I keep it complicated Explosion of the spirit cause I up my soul and created So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting what I 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 is the flow, so my styling 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, you on a mad trip The thoughts I'm too deep, you sinks down, I creeps round, the of the levels, the raps that kill devils The abstracts, right and exact, on the back Rip poetical flows upon the My thoughts escape onto a tape, you'll play it and listen, I brought to mind what's missing
?uestion] Now get loose, get loose, Pazi get loose And just rock heartbeat showin you got And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
Plant] I'm hip to release ill units, I displays soul The ? out, so stays rhythmatic to the static when it plays, levels the bass They chase but they'll 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, if it's abstract I'm liable take portion cause I'll fly that ? Dig the jazz closets from the Paz be-low bugged like the nickel bag of love, slidin through the groovy fuzz, Plants is the Mad abornmal, is my flow, much confusion, 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 test I'm at ya, lyrical stature, cause my status be that is the kid to do a bid on fakers the grammar that be blamma, back in eighty-three I was the Grand Fruit Jammer, but now I gets and wreck shit with the 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, Myself ? ? ? get And just rock heartbeat 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 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 lock up, 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 Philly, 56th Street The be getting jay'd on the corner Swing my hat to the back, Kangol, no maybe 5 Not no bootleg treat, you get from 52nd Street, 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 kiss a and any miss I wish to kiss or else I like this So I to the left, drop the mic, catch my breath then, watch the Object catch wreck, uhh
[BROther Get loose, get loose, Shorty get And just rock heartbeat showin you got And fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN) Have, HAVE, FUN!!!!
No Mas] Can I it? I it for the others so I kick 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 Asses are grabbed, I swing with The Roots Suits, I got none, but throwin off that ever since I winced at the thought of a Yes you might be wantin to consider me a 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 louder if you're sure that you hear me Fear me not, I'm just another girl Curls in my head, and yeah I think I good Should I be the one, to break the bad Snooze when I'm tired, not when I'm hype, your Yo I came off!
?uestion] 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 for the year of ninety-three The black brainchild is about to the groovy speak out the head, provided for the Here to resurrect the ghetto for the blocks You can dig the styles cause the styles are for the A fat sack of soul, how the Sector roll Never making material, why should I? The mind is so 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 up the levels from New York to Montego It's all about the lyrics, it's not the ego Quick to make a jam and slam like the pro that I am It's profound, the kids from the underground Every lyric is prepared, in the hunt for the metro with scoops of fat loops and lingo being felt, all over in the fifty states Breaking more beats my moms breaks the china plates Transmitting, hitting areas we with funk when we to planet Earth, with a trunk of fat, soul Alert doing work on the to bring 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 heartbeat showin 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 comes me, who? The little brother 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 borough, because I'm crazy thorough No running 'round but no my penile is not sterile Collects the crazy papes from, selling tapes, umm Big heads be gettin swollen, I crush em like grapes The that I'm zoning, the one that's on the third 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 William Perry A poor black kid rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats Straight the underground, found new life on the South Streets We ? off the jams that uplift the people's souls the Objects that are Foreign, the kids with baggy clothes are the cats that I'm with, when we be together Two and two equals four but Foreign Objects be So, just let me flow as I reach up to the plateau And then you'll give me my 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 that I grab send schools to the slab As I scores, the funky orator's gone on some ish lookin for the next fish with a wish that to be a duck but now you're stuck Trying to hang but you can't I think you're fucked You traded in blues for boom, tap shoes 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, here to all of you rockers When I carry the ball, I stay be-hind my I move swift, I no lift I don't have to because I shift the gift and now my name is Simmons, but I'm not Run With the mic in my hand, I've only just to hold mine, I'ma goldmine a ton The way I shine, I be the sun, huh! How many times must I to say this I never miss yo when I From styles I paint the funky picture I and before I hit the 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 the best of the rest of the flock And now you're walkin down the hallways of the Always A.J. here for the day Bustin rhymes in your face while I'm fadin It's like that y'all, and ya stop The funky Bid on the with the hip-hop
[Black 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!!!!
[BROther It's me the ?uestion on the M-I-C to flow To bust a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' I'm flexin with my mental chocolate Sucker know you're listenin so get off of it A score and two ago began the ?uestion's mission of 52nd Street, on ? and anybody wanna the sure shot body rock flowin dude, we can take it to the stage Sucker, Foreign Objects 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 have a Benz-y shoes are walkin like Jimmy Make em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," make em squeal ? Man, yo, I jams on every 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 levelheaded son who knows I came from Umm, lights, camera...
[? ? ?] Get loose, get loose, Black Thought get 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 I'm qualified for groovy stew achoo I the boogie like the flu and God Bless the Black 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 clouds I drop, bombs like a Sau-di, Arabian Flocks I like Fabian It's the nipple sex upon the grits that call me and run a finger, through the knaps of the rap, singer pull a scat, from the stack, I keep in the shack of my soul, the bowl I got the flat out good That's why I'm dug by the hippies the pimps and hoods in the slum, could I umm, come, I umm, come Yes I does, and gets down said I know that I was but gel, that's why they blow up cause they didn't give spect 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 the Brother ?uestion and now you how it is when the Foreign 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...