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The Roots
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[Chorus]
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Oooh
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It's been a long time
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Since I been back around the way
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It's been a long time
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Let it spin let spin let it spin
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Since I been back around your way
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It's been a long time
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Long time long time
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[Verse]
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[Black Thought]
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Struck by the luck of the draw
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Real life preservation
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What I'm hustling for
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My name black thought
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The definition of raw
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I was born in South Philly
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On a cement floor
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I had nothing at all
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Had to knuckle and brawl
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They swore I'd fall
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Be another brick in the wall
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Another life
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Full of love
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That lost
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That's silly
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This Philly
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Y'all really ain't stoppin
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The boy with the pen
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Like Willie
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On top of the hall
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Pure soul is what the city
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Most popular for
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Hear the tones
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That will ease you
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Smooth
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As Bunny Sigler's soundtrack
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Keepin your head boppin and all
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It's something in the water
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Where I come from
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They used to sing it on the corner
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Where I come from
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Making somethin outta nothing
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Because everybody fifty cents
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From a quarter
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Where I come from
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Yeah
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The streets ain't timid
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But I feel at home in it
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Gotta see a couple people
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I ain't got at
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In a minute
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Yeah
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You can take a brother outta South Philly
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Can't take it outta him really
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I forever represent it
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And it's
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[Chorus]
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[Peedi Peedi]
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Live and dirvet
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I don't need no mic check
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Remember mommy told me
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You ain't write that
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It started in the bathroom taking a dump
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Listening to Ultramagnetic
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Ego tripping you won't
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Pressure my word
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I'm the urban vision
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Of you chump
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Stomped on a different ground
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Sound second to none
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Synthesizers tweet
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To improvise your feet
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I calculated every lyric to arrive on a beat
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It's free
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Come get high on me
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Before a nine millimeter shell
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Hit my pelle pelle
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In the p
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Yeah
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It's somethin in the water
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Where I come from
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They used to sing it on the corner
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Where I come from
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Making somethin outta nothing
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Because everybody
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Fifty cents from a quarter
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Yo
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Where I come from
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It's just a natural reaction
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For crack to make it happen
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Let the pen ink sink
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Into the paper of the pad
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Think back
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When I was younger
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Ghetto could have took me under
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Young Peedi can't mess with North Philly
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Never had
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You don't know about me
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You ain't stroll my streets
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Look familiar
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I feel ya
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Longtime no see
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[Chorus]
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[Black Thought]
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Uhh
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Clap somethin
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But whatever you clap
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Clap to the record spinnin
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While I'm takin you back
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To the top paper era
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Baby big on that
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Picture the pool room
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Where the money getters was at
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And street people
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With feather in the cap
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Or their bossolino Pullin paper
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As if it's a small casino
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I was a young boy
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Sweepin the floors
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And runnin to stores
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But all those old heads
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Woudl talk to me About the way
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To clutch the eagle
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On a buck and truck
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And if I'm down
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How to get back up
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Just survival kid
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And it's a struggle worldwide
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I'm positive
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Shit the ghetto might as well
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Be the Gaza Strip
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You know where all the monsters is
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Street walkers
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You don't see no consciousness I'm coming back to where
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The core of the problem is
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We on the job again
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Y'all know what time it is
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[Chorus]
The Roots -- Long Time
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