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[?uestlove]
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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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[Black Thought]
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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
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just to use it, to make you move it, yeah
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* repeat 2X except 'yeah' *
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[Black Thought]
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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
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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
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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
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just to use it, to make you move it, yeah
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* repeat 2X except 'yeah' *
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[Kid Crumbs]
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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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[Black Thought]
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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' (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' (uh-huh)
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Trippin, I'm tryin, not to laugh, bust it
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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
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just to use it, to make you move it
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* repeat 2X except *
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