What They Do - The Roots

[00:00.000] 作词 : Raphael Saadiq/Ahmir Thompson/Jimmy Grey/Brown/Tariq Trotter/Leonard Hubbard
[00:00.000] 作曲 : Raphael Saadiq/Ahmir Thompson/Jimmy Grey/Brown/Tariq Trotter/Leonard Hubbard
[00:00.00] Never do....what they do, what they do, what they do...
[00:44.40]Never do....what they do, what they do, what they do...
[00:45.93]Yo, lost generation, fast pace nation
[00:49.56]World population confront their frustration
[00:51.99]The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken
[00:54.48]It's all contractual, and about money making
[00:57.12]Pretend-to-be cats don't seem to know their limitations
[00:59.79]Exact replication and false representation
[01:02.37]You wanna be a man, then stand your own
[01:04.62]To MC requires skills, I demand some shown
[01:07.29]I let the frauds keep frontin
[01:08.88]And roam like a celluar phone far from home
[01:11.25]Giving crowds what they wanted
[01:12.75]Offical hip-hop consumption, the 5th dumpin
[01:15.27]Keepin ya party jumpin wit an original somethin
[01:17.85]Yo, I dedicate this to the one dimension-al
[01:20.34]No imagination, excuse for perpetration
[01:23.07]My man came over and said
[01:24.39]"Yo we thought we heard you"
[01:25.95]Joke's for you
[01:26.67]We heard your bitin ass crew but uh
[01:32.88]Raphael Saadiq
[01:38.94]Never do, what they do when they do what they do
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[01:48.27]Black Thought
[01:49.11]Thin is the line of between love and hatred
[01:51.54]The game is ill-natured, it's nothing sacred
[01:53.82]Hey yo, it's funny when i see some rap niggaz do the making
[01:56.76]Of you would blow up or go as far as they can take it
[01:59.31]My nine to five is just to hit ya get the party live
[02:02.22]I'm Black Thought, used to rap for sport
[02:04.29]Now the rhymes need life support
[02:06.75]I take it very seriously within this industry
[02:09.69]It's various crews that try to touch me
[02:11.58]But I come wit the beautiful thing
[02:13.26]And I bless the track plushly
[02:14.91]Around the world the crowds love me from doing tours
[02:17.49]Recepient of applause from you and yours
[02:19.89]Creator of original sounds to send to stores you take home
[02:23.28]To absorb and sweat it out your pores
[02:25.20]Now who can stop the music runnin through these veins
[02:27.63]Infinitely go against the grain
[02:29.40]That's why my motto's to
[02:51.33]Livin the life of limos and lights
[02:53.55]Airplanes and trains
[02:54.66]Short days and long nights
[02:56.13]Keyboards and mics
[02:57.24]Bass chords and drum kicks
[02:58.86]And my mental thick to hit my head like brick
[03:01.17]As I embark on a mission welcoming to the dark
[03:03.75]When I first spark the arts, when's the listening start
[03:06.33]Open your head wide and let the thought inside
[03:08.88]My style fortified by all of philladel-phy
[03:11.79]I've dealt more stealth than all the wicked weal-thy
[03:14.22]Mentality undetectable by the naked eye
[03:16.92]Then I get paid when the record is played
[03:19.26]To put it short I want it Made like Ed, nuff said
[03:22.14]Then after that, I'm puttin on the __ _
[03:24.60]Let the ladies blend with the darkskin devil bred and discover
[03:27.99]My level is that of no other
[03:29.61]And Roots crew bring offical and true
[03:31.53]While I'm continuin to...
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