What They Do - The Roots

[00:00.000] 作词 : Jimmy Grey/Brown/Ahmir Thompson/Tariq Trotter/Raphael Saadiq/Leonard Hubbard
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Jimmy Grey/Brown/Ahmir Thompson/Tariq Trotter/Raphael Saadiq/Leonard Hubbard
[00:26.805]Never do what they do
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[00:46.120]Yo yo
[00:46.887]Lost generation fast paced nation
[00:49.426]World population confront they frustration
[00:51.863]The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken
[00:54.198]It's all contractual and about money makin'
[00:56.949]Pretend-to-be cats
[00:58.067]don't seem to know they limitation
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[00:59.855]Exact replication and false representation
[01:01.480]You wanna be a man Then stand your own
[01:04.547]To emcee requires skills
[01:05.667]I demand some shown
[01:07.095]I let the frauds keep frontin'
[01:08.668]And roam like a cellular phone far from home
[01:11.207]Givin' crowds what they wantin'
[01:12.534]Official hip-hop consumption the fifth thumpin'
[01:15.462]Keepin' ya party jumpin' with an original somethin'
[01:17.756]Yo I dedicate this to the one dimensional
[01:20.499]No imagination excuse for perpetration
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[01:22.897]My man came over and said
[01:24.217]Yo we thought we heard you
[01:25.652]Joke's on you
[01:27.021]you heard a bitin'-ass crew but um
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[01:49.424]Thin is the line that run between love and hatred
[01:51.617]The game is ill-natured it's nothing sacred
[01:53.858]Aiyyo it's funny
[01:54.623]when I see some rap ****** due to make it
[01:56.605]A few'll blow up or go as far as they can take it
[01:59.247]My nine to five is just to hit ya; get the party live
[02:02.304]I'm black thought used to rap for sport
[02:04.194]Now the rhymes sayin' rent payin' life support
[02:06.233]I take it very seriously within this industry
[02:08.879]It's various crews that try to touch me
[02:11.684]But I come with the beautiful things
[02:13.261]and I bless the track plushly
[02:14.682]Around the world crowds love me from doin' tours
[02:17.233]Recipient of applause from all of you and yours
[02:19.487]Creator of original sounds to send to stores
[02:22.393]You take home to absorb
[02:23.765]and sweat it out your pores
[02:25.827]Now who can stop the music
[02:26.842]runnin' through these veins
[02:27.707]Infinitely go against the grain;
[02:29.234]that's why my motto's to
[02:30.659]Never do what they do
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[02:51.572]Livin' the life of limos and lights
[02:53.556]Airplanes and trains short days and long nights
[02:56.298]Keyboards and mics bass chords and drum kicks
[02:59.168]And my mental thick to hit my head like brick
[03:01.100]As I embark on a mission welcomin' to the dark
[03:03.697]When I first spark the arts when the listenin' start
[03:06.376]Open your head wide and let the thought inside
[03:08.946]My style fortified by all of Philadel-phi
[03:11.495]I've dealt more stealth than all the wicked wealthy
[03:14.098]Mentality undetectable by the naked eye
[03:16.747]Then I get paid when the record is played
[03:19.198]To put it short I want it made like Ed 'nuff said
[03:22.012]Then after that I'm puttin' on my cousin Hamed
[03:24.454]We let the ladies blend
[03:25.730]with the dark skin thoroughbred
[03:27.259]And discover my level is that of no other
[03:30.014]And Roots crew reign official and true
[03:31.601]while I'm continuin' to
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