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The Roots
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Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
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Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
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Jeff X can rock the mic with tooth decay
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I be the 5 foot 7, residing at the mecca lesson south section
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Used to cut class in the infinite pursuit of ass
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Back in eighty-seven
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Easy with the chics I was a chocolate boy
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Raised in the cellar with the rhythm like Ella
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Walking down the streets to the subway where i lay
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Til the train stop then a nigga hop
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Used to do the pop dance to the planet rock
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At the block party everybody jocked [who me?]
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It's the MC sucka niggaz envy
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I got my contract in 1993 and
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I shall proceed
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Chorus: repeat 2X
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I shall, proceed
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And continue, to rock the mic
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Verse Two:
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I wake up early in the morning, I mean early afternoon
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Break a lyrical hymn of the stem like boom
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I'm flyer when I'm higher put my shit up on a tomb
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That nigga represented on the 28th of June
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I'm representing philly on the 28th of June
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I can make you feel that i'm a surreal cartoon
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with my pistol in the face of hip hop, stick in your face
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Because i'm on a paper chase, yes i'm on a paper chase
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My Timberlands are fully laced I be the Mr. Boogeyman
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With records from 125th to Japan
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I laid them play like Johnny Hathaway and shake a hand, shake a hand
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Your lady tried to kick it, but I couldn't play my man
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My niggaz is my niggaz ya see she didn't understand
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I shake your hand and shit'll hit the fan, just think
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Just think, what? What if you could, just blink, what?
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Just blink yourself away?
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Chorus
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Verse Three:
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Malik B get on the mic yo there's too much on my mind [say what?]
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Malik get on the mic, there's too much on my mind
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Johnny on the spot, got the rhythm and the rhyme
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Fuckin with The Roots you know them niggaz is the dime
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I can make a hundred yard line start to dash
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I can make a whole lake of fish start to splash
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I can make Conan and the Titans clash
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I can Metallica and guns 'N Roses crash
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Used to smash crash parties like i was disturbed
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Used to make plots against the herringbone herb
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But now, all I do disperse the verb
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And like a nerd i can make you say, "He's superb"
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Word is perfect, never ever shall you misinterpret
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I move styles like bowels so now you know i'm worth it
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Direct from Philly, the lands where niggas scheme
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So you know I got the sheen in my gleam
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Chorus
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