The Roots are a Grammy award winning American hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals. Their debut album was released in 1993 and they have collaborated with a wide range of artists from different genres, including Roy Ayers and Cody Chesnutt. The Roots have generated a great deal of critical acclaim and influenced numerous rap and R&B acts. On March 2, 2009, The Roots began a tenure as the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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@15
[Black Thought].
The name of the brother to blame.
It's quite plain, it's not the rain.
But a brother who don't claim or aim.
to be a preacher or ordained.
I have Black Thoughts, t
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100% Dundee
One one one one two.
P-P-5-D.
Yeah, yeah, P-P-5-D.
I'm sayin, yo.
Touch this yo, knahmsayin what? .
Yo-yo, yo, 100%...
.
[Black Thought].
Yo! On these seventy-three keys, of
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Act Fore (The End?)
[Black Thought].
Yeah yeah yeah, yes I, no doubt yes I (P-5-D).
Check it out, yo yo.
Areegato, to all my people in Japan.
Whether you rockin Cartier or Pierre Cardan.
I'm barging i
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Act Too (The Love Of My Life)
What?.
Hip-Hop y'all, to the top y'all.
Hip-Hop check it out.
It's like that, and it sounds so nice.
Hip-Hop, you the love of my life.
We bout to take it to the to the to the.
To the to
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Adrenaline!
[Scratch intro].
.
[Chorus: Black Thought and Scratch 2x].
Once again 'gain.
Once again 'gain.
Once again 'gain 'gain ladies and gentlemen.
Once again 'gain.
Once again
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Ain't Sayin' Nothin' New
[Black Thought - amidst ad libbing voices].
What the fuck, what what what?.
Nuttin new, nuttin new...
What? Nuttin new.. check.
Nuttin new, nuttin new, y'all not sayin nuttin new.
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Break You Off
[Chorus 2X: Musiq].
I'm coming to break you off (beat started.....start-started..).
I'm coming to break you off (beat started.....start-started..).
I'm coming to break you off (beat st
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Clock With No Hands
[Black Thought].
Yeah, sitting in the staircase, holding back tears.
Looking over mad years worth of photographs.
Pictures of some places I ain't never going back.
Some people I used
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Clones
Yeah, to all the Jim Carrey ass large co-op.
KnowhatI'msayin? Large co-op, what the fuck?.
To the clones, we bless the domes.
Blow the vial, you know my style, large co-op.
Freestyle all t
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Common Dust
Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust [8X].
.
[Chorus: Black Thought 4X].
.
It's Common Dust y'all, and you don't stop.
For you to trust y'all, with real hip-hop.
.
[Black
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Datskat
Datskat! I know you dig it when I kick it baby! [4X].
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Di-bi-dis-banks, hip-flip-a-didip-didim-dow-hound.
You wonder bout the sweat pon my brow, formulatin nouns.
I'll get down, bo
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Distortion To Static
[Verse One: Malik B].
.
Yo, I'm every MC, it's all in me.
That's the way it is, when ya gotta be.
Indeed as I distort I proceed, I need.
Gettin hotter than sacks of boom, in my roo
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Don't Say Nuthin'
[Verse 1 - Black Thought].
Yeah! That all mighty amazing, ill, highly contagious.
Kamikaze south splash like it shot from a gauge.
Until your body sound clash.
Head of the Class, Mag
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Double Trouble
[Black Thought].
We go wow, ba-da-da-dow-da-dah-ow.
Either stand tall, just sit the fuck down.
All the way from the 2-1-5th to Bucktown.
Brace yourself, it's about to go down.
.
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Episodes
[voice in background].
Yeah, you in tune to another episode in my area code.
All sorts of episodes in my area code.
Where the blocks explode, where the temperature is cold.
It's just
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Game Theory
[Chorus A 4X].
This is a game.
I'm your specimen.
You've got to let me know baby.
So I can go, I'd have to fake it.
I could not make it.
You could not take it.
.
[Black Th
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Get Busy
[Verse 1-Black Thought].
Look, my squad half-Mandrill, half-Mandela.
My band 'bout seventy strong just like Fela.
Yeah, part Melle-Mel, part Van Halen.
and we represent Illadel, wher
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Good Music
[?uestlove].
Peace to all the hip cats, all the nappy sweets.
This is the BROther ?uestion, broadcasting live.
via satellite, from the Never Never Tunnels.
Now dig.. the rituals for
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Here I Come
[Chorus 2X].
He said yeah.
You better come out with your hands up.
We got you surrounded.
I'm in the back.
Changin my outfit.
He said blink.
We gonna send the hounds in.
I sa
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I Can't Help It
[Hook - Mercedes Martinez].
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Help It.
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It.
I Can't Help It, I Can't Help It.
I, I, I Can't Help It, I, I, I Can't Hel
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I Don't Care
[Chorus: sung 2X].
I don't care, as long as the bassline's pumpin.
The drumline bangin away.
Make one move and I'll blow you away.
One false move and I'll blow you away.
.
[Bl
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I Will Not Apologize
[Chorus: (Dice Raw) Talib Kweli].
(I will not apologize) I will not apologize.
(I will not apologize) I will not apologize.
This is for all of my peoples who understand and truly recog
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I'm Out Deah
[Black Thought].
Uhh.. the molecular mass.
of that rhythmic ass grass.
is organic hip-hop jazz.
that you are all about to witness.
Groovy units check it owwwwt...
.
The nappy c
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It Just Don't Stop
[Hook:].
Dig it, this world is filled with homicides and rape.
All the crimes of hate just ain't the size and shape.
You can walk don't the block and get slumped or knocked.
It don't
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Ital (The Universal Side)
[Verse One: Q-Tip].
.
I wanna be able to reach an mc.
and reach a little child in the same degree.
And my elders excel.
I mean what the hell.
we might as well bridge these gaps.
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Leonard I-V
[Black Thought].
From The Never Never Tunnels via satellite.
Ceremonies be commencing in the candlelight.
Yo is I is up in the res-in-iduals tonight.
Absolutely because I'm the kid t
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Long Time
[Chorus].
Oooh.
It's been a long time.
Since I been back around the way.
It's been a long time.
Let it spin let spin let it spin.
Since I been back around your way.
It's been a
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Lost Desire
[Hook: ?uestlove (x2)].
It's the love, in your heart.
Or the pain, in your mind.
No one cares, what the truth is.
Cause 'em fortunes, they don't lie.
.
[Malik B.].
Ok,
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Mellow My Man
[Black Thought].
One two.
Yes, The Roots layin back, rela-xin.
Coolin out with my man Malik B.
we call him Sla-xon.
YaknowhatI'msayin? We in effect.
Mo like Al B. Sure, for your
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No Alibi
[Chorus:].
If you seen it or heard it,maybe probably I did it.
maybe or maybe not,I'll admit what I committed.
exhibit the truth because I'm living proof why.
I had no disguises,no v
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No Great Pretender
[Malik B].
Check it out, one two.
M-illi-tant.
I be the, alias Malik B.
Internationale rationale.
All the people up 68th Ave..
and across Broad Street.
or Silk Lane in South Ph
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Pass The Popcorn
[Black Thought].
It looks like another one's comin around [3X].
So the Black Thought gots to get down y'all, yeah.
.
[in background: "Pass the what? (Pass the popcorn)" 4X
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Proceed
Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?.
Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?.
Jeff X can rock the mic with tooth decay.
I be the 5 foot 7, resi
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Quills
[Chorus].
Don't stop (uh don't stop yo).
Tonight (cheeba cheeba yo, soul shock yo).
(Give it everything you got yo).
(Once again it's time, it's time).
It's time to ride, ride.....
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Respond / React
[Black Thought].
It's jazz - hip-hop hangin in my head heavy.
Malik said "Riq, you know the planet ain't ready.
for the half" when we comin with the action pack.
On some Dundee shit
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Rising Down
Hello hello hello hello....
Hello hello hello hello....
Hello hello hello hello....
Hello hello hello hello....
.
[Mos Def].
Every anywhere heights plains peaks or valleys.
Ent
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Rising Up
[Intro (?uestlove & Chrisette Michele)].
Yesterday I saw a B-girl crying; yesterday I saw a B-girl crying .
I walked up and asked what's wrong, .
She told me that the radio's been play
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Rolling With Heat
[Chorus: Kweli & Dice Raw].
Downtown everybody move to the beat.
Uptown everybody moving the heat.
Cross-town the party where both sides meet.
Eastside, westside, there's always bee
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Sacrifice
[Verse One: Black Thought].
Listen, I got you phobic off of this like arachnids.
Drastic, it ain't plastic it's Pro-Blackness.
Grown man tactics, no pediatrics.
the kind of track tha
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Singing Man
[Chorus - Dice Raw].
Days are living fast, moves in misery.
You got a song you wanna sing for me.
Sing a song, singing man.
Sing a song, singing man.
Sing another song, singing man
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Somebody's Got To Do It
[Hook:].
Somebody's gotta be there when it gets ugly.
Somebody's gotta be there when it gets bloody.
Somebody's gotta get their hands dirty.
Yo, it's a fucked up job but somebody's g
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Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)
In town [repeat 3X].
.
Something in the way of things.
Something that will quit and won't start.
Something you know but can't stand.
Can't know get along with.
Like death.
Ridi
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Star / Pointro
[40 seconds of instrumental to start].
.
[Black Thought].
Get 'em up high - okay, yeah.
.
[Chorus].
Go all-star, and get down for yours.
To the ladies in the hous
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Stay Cool
[Black Thought].
Bass for your face, highs for your eyes.
Don't blink, Black Ink has arrived, all rise.
Rudebwoys keep dem thing at your side, be alright.
Muh'fuckers Philly we up in
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Swept Away
MC's who slept for days, must be swept away [4X].
.
[Malik B].
The rhythm just sways, and like a sorceress I slays.
foes, and ri-vals, who wanna come.
this way, they, better
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Table Of Contents (Part 1 & 2)
[Part One].
.
[Black Thought].
[Background].
Is this fast or normal speed?.
Yea, knawsayin?, yea, Table of Contents.
Fuckin wit it, one two, it's the Table of Conte
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The Adventures In Wonderland
[Ursula Rucker].
Fuck.. kill.. and prosper.
is the gospel of Wonderland, where.
street sands, are quick..
to suck you down to the abyss.
with the lure of pure bliss if you kiss t
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The Grand Return
The streets talk,
And they hear.
And They watch,
So stay clear.
Cuz they need,
The streets feed.
A street thief.
and what they need.
.
[Dice Raw].
And everybody get
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The Hypnotic
(The hypnotic, the hypnotic).
(The hypnotic, the hypnotic).
[7X].
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Yo,
I knew this girl named Alana with mad persona.
She delt with reality never fed it to the drama.
I met h
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The Lesson Pt. 1
[Verse One: Black Thought].
.
Lyrically versatile.
My rap definition is wild.
I wrote graffiti as a juvenile.
Restin on deuce trey.
And used to boost gray Kangol's.
with 555 So
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The Return To Innocence Lost
[Ursula Rucker].
Muffled sound of fist on flesh.
Blows to chest.
No breath.
Air gasps.
You ain't nothing but white trash, bitch!.
With each hit, each kick, each...broken rib.
C
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The Seed (2.0)
[Verse 1: Black Thought].
Knocked up 9 months ago.
And what she finna have she don't know.
She want neo-soul, this hip-hop is old.
She don't want no rock'n'roll.
She want platinum
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The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History)
[Black Thought].
From the Tunnels in the wee hours of the black morning.
From The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects family tree.
This is mad abstract.
All the way live from Philly, we
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The Show
[Intro].
Ladies and gentlemen.
The greatest stage show you've ever witnessed.
Appearing live, from out the 2-1-5, The Roots crew.
.
[Verse 1].
Big respect to the Get fresh
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The Spark
["You'll soon depart.." echoes from the last track].
.
[Chorus: Malik B (2X)].
.
Yo, the feet that I walk with.
The ears that I hear with, the eyes that I see with.
The mo
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Thought @ Work
[Black Thought].
Yo, where the freaks at? Lookin' at me.
You wanna see Black? Then jump on it.
And to the chumps who think they might want it.
I might spot your ride and dump on it
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Universe At War
[Intro: Common].
.
Yeah, U.N.I.Verse.
at war.
U.N.I.Verse (when you and I verse).
at war motherfucker.
We gonna do this Chi-town style (verse at war).
Illadelph, you know how w
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Web
[Black Thought].
Uh huh.
uh.
.
And it weights a ton.
'riq geez motherfuckers I'm a son of a gun.
Black master of any trade under the sun.
Talk sharp like a razor blade under th
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Why (What's Going On?)
WHY?? [6 x's].
.
Sky's the limit so you know I'm gonna rise and shine.
I gotta do my thing, I'm kinda getting a little tired of all that's hidden.
That's the reason I'm a speak my mi
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Without A Doubt
Hey, hey, hey hey.
Hey, yes, yes I.
C'mon, c'mon uh, uh.. uh.
.
[Lady B] Another one of those Saturday Nights y'all.
.
Yo y'all, take heed.
Yeah, check it out, c'mon.
You're
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You Ain't Fly
You ain't fly.
You ain't fly.
You ain't fly.
so go 'head, witcha self.
[repeat 4X].
.
[Black Thought].
I'm just playin the wall, I'm just playin the wall.
Coolin with
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You Got Me
[Chorus: Erykah Badu (repeat 2X)].
.
If you were worried 'bout where.
I been or who I saw or.
what club I went to with my homies.
baby don't worry you know that you got me.
.
<
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