| Peace to all the hip cats, all the nappy sweets
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| This is the BROther? |
| uestion, broadcasting live
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| via satellite, from the Never Never Tunnels
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| Now dig. |
| the rituals for today, is good music
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| So sit back, relax. |
| and dig the groove
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| Yo bust it, I digs hip-hop, and rocks for hip-hop
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| Not R&B because to me that’s not my style and
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| the R-double-O-quotes ain’t for radio, but major soul
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| the ones that’s hip won’t change the dial and
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| I remember one morning at the Soul Shack, coolin
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| in the outback, on the songwritin ship
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| Blizz a five, off a Bob Marley spliff
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| On the cloud I be relaxin from last night and shit
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| In studio today but hey BROther? |
| uestion
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| was on the Westside asleep without a clue when
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| I hollered down to Crumbs to pick up the phone
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| and tell him to get ready (?uestion, what ya doin?)
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| (Ain't no thing) Yeah,
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| Buttered chicken wings, so I met him in the West
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| where we had to 'lax and wait for Rubber Band and Bes'
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| Bassey broke down on the other side of town
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| Yo you know what it’s about, The Roots is out
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| to the subway
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| Does anybody like good music?
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| Sweet music, soul music?
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| You know The Roots is a group that’ll choose it just to use it, to make you move it, yeah
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| From the subway to the studio
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| Gots to break fast if we wanna get, to the bus
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| Runnin like a Mex for the border
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| (Umm, yo, oh umm, was it a bunch of yas?)
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| Nah, just the four of us Nuff nappy sweets on the transit, two fine
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| (three fine) fo’five mo’fine, UHH!
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| A girl says, Hey ain’t y’all The Square Roots?
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| and I’m like, Heh, worrrd,
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| and then the shorty passed the sign
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| Now we got to make out exit (where?)
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| to the pavement (to what?) Crushin trail mix
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| (oh word man, yo look out) Say what? |
| (look out!)
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| ?uestion dropped a whole bag of drumsticks
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| (Ain't no thing) but a chicken wing, so he bends down to pick up the sticks
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| and his pants fall down (dang!)
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| In my face, ?uestion didn’t frown, turned around
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| and thought he felt a draft, so I laughed
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| (HAHAHAHAHAH!)
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| Does anybody like good music?
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| Sweet music, soul music?
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| You know The Roots is a group that’ll choose it just to use it, to make you move it, yeah
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| Here comes the Crumbs, from the chums of the P.O.
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| Sprouted from The Roots and I was added to the trio
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| Now I’m cahoots and got a reason for my ego
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| In the words of, Los Lobos, ad-ios, a-migo
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| At the Rat Cave, mic I’m hand, I’m flowin
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| Tellin? |
| uestion, to keep it, goin
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| What I’m doin, I’m not really knowin
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| but umm, to me see it sounds oh-and-kay'n (it sounds OK)
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| layin, to the sounds playin
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| Umm, hi to hoe and, yeah, hey to hay’n (uh-huh)
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| Trippin, I’m tryin, not to laugh, bust it It’s the last paragraph, and I’m done half
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| But? |
| uestion's jokin, and I’m like hopin
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| that nobody comes in and opens, the door…
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| (Ah man, what is up with you man?
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| I’m leavin, what why you scratchin your face like that man?
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| Look ugly, self-righteous, do-gooder)
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| Does anybody like good music?
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| Sweet music, soul music?
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| You know The Roots is a group that’ll choose it just to use it, to make you move it |