
Date of issue: 31.12.2001
Record label: Blue Note
Song language: English
Clap! |
Clap your hands |
It just ain’t real without Roots crew in it |
And if you feeling Soulive, keep doing it |
(and to whoever in front) You know what you can get |
Y’all phobic off of this like we was arachnids |
Drastic, it ain’t plastic it’s pro-blackness |
Type of cat to pull a arsenal out the mattress |
Blasts on em sipping cognac out the cactus |
Beating backwards tell them killer pediatrics |
It’s Willy Gank hillbilly bank, we miraculous move |
I’m in it to win it yo, I can’t just lose |
The women so anxious to choose |
My soul so live from the crown to the shoes |
I keep it South Philly with the downtown groove |
I cool out spitting some joints that sound smooth |
I even throwing tomahawks and laying down crews |
My think tight son i crack necks like Bruce |
I don’t shoot hoops I shoot dumb dudes |
I might got a hoop imma make you jump through |
Just recognize truth so when we come through |
Clap your hands |
Come on, clap your hands |
Come on, clap to the music |
It just ain’t real without Roots crew in it |
And if you feeling Soulive, keep doing it |
(and to whoever in front) You know what you can get, uh! |
Yo, hey yo country’s at war |
Little kids cry, rape, god damn it |
The ghetto is the planet of the apes |
Massive meltdown send in the red tape |
With the cinder block shoes at the bottom of the lake |
I’m from the city of sin the state of the art |
Using no book and no pen for making the mark |
A rap clubber lane hit em with the gutter slang |
I know you’re insane, we another thang |
The track bang |
We put it to y’all chumps you so corny |
My name, Black Thought the one person army |
All the intellectuals and the thugs adore me |
My lyrical range, from complex to strange |
Wrecking your brain when the rhyme texture change |
Hip hop fiends tapping they arm and catch a vein |
Emcees scared to death, wishing i never came |
Clap your hands |
Come on, clap your hands |
Come on, clap everybody |
Come on, clap to the music |
It just ain’t real without Roots crew in it |
And if you feeling Soulive, keep doing it |
(and to whoever in front) You know what you can get, uh! |
Everybody on they jawn |
Cartoons and soft porn |
It ain’t no after school paper routes mowing lawns |
Kids got backpacks full of yayo and heron |
Coming into school shooting up the auditorium |
It’s Psycho Killers week on Court TV |
The least of y’all worries should be Thought’s CD |
The Chairman of the Board copping snorts weekly |
They done caught the minister with a pork BLT |
My shit ain’t hot |
Yo they probably drop me, psych! |
Something i can never let myself see, can’t see |
I’m thoroughbred nothing fancy |
Remain calm no matter what the circumstance be |
It’s the principle pillowcase full of nickels |
That will smack, like a man kick you |
Leave em crippled |
Keep talking breezy imma big lip you |
Yo homeboy ya get slid with you |
Clap your hands |
Come on, clap your hands |
Come on, clap everybody |
Come on, clap to the music |
It just ain’t real without Roots crew in it |
And if you feeling Soulive, keep doing it |
(and to whoever in front) You know what you can get, uh! |
Every time I turn around |
They tryna take my breath away |
On some shit like that… |
Name | Year |
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X-Ecutioner Style ft. Black Thought, Roc Raida, Sean C | 2020 |
Joyful Girl ft. Dave Matthews | 2001 |
Right Now ft. Black Thought, Styles of Beyond | 2005 |
Romantic | 2000 |
Here ft. Soulive | 2005 |
Burnin' And Lootin' ft. The Roots, Black Thought | 1998 |
Yah Yah ft. Royce 5'9, Black Thought, Q-Tip | 2020 |
America ft. Black Thought, Chuck D, Big Lenbo | 2017 |
Bridge To Bama | 2000 |
Thorn Or A Rose ft. Black Thought | 2016 |
Immortals ft. Black Thought | 2015 |
Meiso ft. Black Thought, Malik B. | 1994 |
Pimpa's Paradise ft. Stephen Marley, Black Thought | 2004 |
When We Move ft. Black Thought, Seun Kuti | 2021 |
Crowns for Kings ft. Black Thought | 2019 |
Ishkabibble's ft. Black Thought | 2020 |
Back Again | 2005 |
Roman Candles ft. Roc Marciano, Black Thought | 2018 |
Fight The Power: Remix 2020 ft. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought | 2020 |
Good Morning ft. Pusha T, Swizz Beatz, Killer Mike | 2020 |