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[Black Thought]
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From the Tunnels in the wee hours of the black morning
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From The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects family tree
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This is mad abstract
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All the way live from Philly, we got the hip-hop coalition
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called the Foreign Objects in effect
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It's like dat, now dig
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Trotter, a.k.a.
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[BT/Tariq Trotter]
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Well um, Black Thought from The Roots y'all
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Simmons, a.k.a.
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[AJ/Joseph Simmons]
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A.J. Shine, The Dollar Sign, funky bid'ness
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Pitts, a.k.a.
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[LA/Micah Pitts]
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Lord Akil, social misfit
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Greene, a.k.a.
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[MM/Tony Greene]
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Straight from Sector 6 it's Mr. Manifest
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Ms. Thompson, a.k.a.
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[SNM/Terresa Thompson]
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Shorty... pussy (Oooooh!)
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Cee, a.k.a.
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[Myself ? ? ?]
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Myself, me Myself and I
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Dorsey, a.k.a.
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[PP/Jamal Dorsey]
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Pazi Plant, The Soul Plant
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Armstead, a.k.a.
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[Bo/Conway Armstead]
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Bo-watt, The Rhythmic Priest
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Basset, a.k.a.
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[MB/Malik Basset]
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Malik Blizzunt, Foreign Objects
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[?uestion/Ahmir Thompson] Mr. Thompson, a.k.a.
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[B?/Ahmir Thompson]
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BROther ?uestion, from Square Roots y'all (yeah, ha-hah)
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[BROther ?uestion]
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And we the Foreign Objects (yeah, yeah)
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And it's like this..
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Now get loose, get loose, Malik B get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[Malik Blunt]
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Yes, I will address and press about my microphone
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me-ssiah, am the best siah? Yes-I am
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most quick to go because I'm equipped to flow a script
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I will just slay and disobey, I will display banana clips
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that slaughter with the words and the herds of the verbs
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I gots the urge to splurge, like a Bosnian Serb
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A-drift I means a-draft I means I riff I means I raff
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Rap's ca-tas-trophe, don't want no brass tro-phy
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So okey-dokey folks, most provoke me ? so hold your ?
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was willin, cause I'm strollin with the quotes
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Like Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Edgar Allan Poe
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But since I'm a ne-gro, I flows like Maya Ange-lou
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No banja-lo was played, I means banjo betrayed
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so the guitar, had to take the bitch off, and slay
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You might think I'm a rookie or an amateur, but put me
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on a panel or a channel I'll dismantle like the vandal-er
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I meants to say the scandalous, vandalous, handle this
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like my man Emilio, what y'all should really know
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You couldn't get the picture, if you was in an orchard
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or fortress, (so you niggaz better forfeit)
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[BROther ?uestion]
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Now get loose, get loose, ? get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[? ? ?]
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Picture this as I get rugged with the scrpiture
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Evacuatin scenes, spreadin thoughts like a drifter
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I exit through my state of greater elevation, unifying
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grains through the force of the imagination, you dig
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what I'm saying? But I see your mind's playing tricks
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You thought you got the channel but you couldn't get a fix
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upon my mental -- I keep it complicated
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Explosion of the spirit cause I opened up my soul and created
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So now you dig the flavor, you're tasting what I gave ya
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Seeping through the cellar cause I be the freak of nature
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With, the images that I hold in my head
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I be the kid from the Fifth, so y'all holding what I've said
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I've said, I be the omnipresent factor from the void
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Fatter is the flow, so my styling is employed
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I'm ragged, pants worn bagged, and umm
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the ghetto be my home so I shouts to the slum
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Come, the misfit's got a tale, take you on a mad trip
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The thoughts unveil
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I'm too deep, you sinks down, I creeps round, the lowest
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of the levels, the positive raps that kill devils
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The abstracts, right and exact, knapsack's on the back
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Rip poetical flows upon the track
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My thoughts escape onto a tape, you'll play it back
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and listen, I brought to your mind what's missing
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[BROther ?uestion]
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Now get loose, get loose, Pazi Plant get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[Pazi Plant]
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I'm hip to release ill units, I displays major soul
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The ? out, so soul stays rhythmatic
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to the static when it plays, levels from the bass
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They chase but they'll never catch my patt-er-ns
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Soul surrounds this Plant like the rings upon Sa-tur-
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Yo, I'm fatter than many, came to kick away any job
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Umm, cat, conniver if it's abstract I'm liable
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take portion cause I'll fly that head ?
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Dig the jazz that's closets from the Paz be-low bugged
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Groovy like the nickel bag of love, slidin
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through the groovy fuzz, Plants is the buzz
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Mad abornmal, is my flow, much confusion, enhanced in
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My scenario's too advanced', for duplication
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If it's violation, soul power, will shower ya
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defenses now you're falling, and crawling
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Cause your styles are infantile not poetically correct
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to test I'm laughin at ya, lyrical stature, cause my status
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be that is the coolest kid to do a bid on fakers
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with the grammar that be blamma, back in eighty-three
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I was the Grand Fruit Jammer, but now I gets down
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and wreck shit with the Foreign Objects..
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Yeah that's right, the Foreign Objects
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[BROther ?uestion]
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Ahhh yeah, now two check, two check
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Now check it out, now check it out
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Get loose, get loose, Myself ? ? ? get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[Myself ? ? ?]
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Kinda like, ? catch, of the day is mad wreck
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I raise heck, no raise hell, you plays back, your tape's ill
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Show me just exactly what it is you want, I give you what we got
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We got flow, we got soul, we get off, a lot
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So lock up, your doors, cause I'm
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Busting Loose like Richard Pryor, setting stuff on fire
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We got funky, rhymes
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Stuff you had swinging, like a monkey, I'm
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always hanging 'round, living off of Vine
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as in West Philly, 56th Street
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The kids be getting jay'd on the corner
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Swing my hat to the back, Kangol, no maybe 5 Soul
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Not no bootleg treat, you get from 52nd Street, word up
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Word to life, word is bond, word to God
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I'm like the bean he's like a bean
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I guess the stage is like a pod, ain't with
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no metamorphosistically I kiss a licorice
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and any miss I wish to kiss or else I diss like this
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So I step to the left, drop the mic, catch my breath
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then, watch the Foreign Object catch wreck, uhh
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[BROther ?uestion]
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Get loose, get loose, Shorty get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[Shorty No Mas]
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Can I kicks it?
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I kicks it for the others so I kick it for you
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I gotta nag a dog and note to Billy - I gets down
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Sound's got a lot I got my own I'm throwin passes
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Asses are grabbed, when I swing with The Roots
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Suits, I got none, but throwin off that accoutrements
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ever since I winced at the thought of a dress
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Yes you might be wantin to consider me a tomboy
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Boy get it right, I'm still strictly lovin men
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Send me your love, don't ever think I don't need it
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Shit I got problems, can you help me out?
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Shout a little louder if you're sure that you hear me
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Fear me not, I'm just another average girl
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Curls in my head, and yeah I think I look good
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Should I be the one, to break the bad news?
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Snooze when I'm tired, not when I'm hype, your type
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Yo I just came off!
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[BROther ?uestion]
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Get loose, get loose, Manifest get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[Mr. Manifest]
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Introducing lyrics for the year of ninety-three
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The black brainchild is about to kick the groovy
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speak out the head, provided for the hardrocks
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Here to resurrect the ghetto beats for the blocks
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You can dig the styles cause the styles are for the digging
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A fat sack of soul, that's how the Sector roll
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Never making fake material, why should I?
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The mind is so equipped to rip, so why would I
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give you less than that, you in fact, this is where it's at
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cause lyrics I've provided is about to swing the bat
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and shake up the levels from New York to Montego
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It's all about the lyrics, it's not about the ego
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Quick to make a jam and slam sound like the pro that I am
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It's profound, like the kids from the underground
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Every single lyric is prepared, in the hunt for the metro
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with scoops of fat loops and funky lingo
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Level's being felt, all over in the fifty states
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Breaking more beats than my moms breaks the china plates
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Transmitting, hitting areas we freak with funk
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when we come to planet Earth, with a trunk of fat, soul
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Alert doing work on the everyday
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Here to bring the swing like my man Donny Hathaway
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Just, follow the dotted line, and do what we do
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Because you gotta get a grip, if you want your shit
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[BROther ?uestion]
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Now get loose, get loose, Lord Akil get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[Lord Akil]
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Umm, from the Southern side of Philly yet of The Roots
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there comes me, who?
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The janky little brother of Mr. Bruce
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A jazz kickin kid who flows, like the river Jordan
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Not fond of Honda scooters, but I'll take an Accord and
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zoom right through your borough, because I'm crazy thorough
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No offspring running 'round but no my penile is not sterile
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Collects the crazy papes from, selling crazy tapes, umm
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Big heads be gettin swollen, I crush em just like grapes
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The level that I'm zoning, the one that's on the third
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Eatin buds or mad grass that gets you HIGHER than a bird
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Kinks, be in the head, cause I leave the curls to Jheri
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Got mad souls out the ass with shit, fat like William Perry
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A poor black kid with rhythm, a eye for jazzy beats
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Straight from the underground, found new life on the South Streets
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We ? off the jams that will uplift the people's souls
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Cause the Objects that are Foreign, the kids with baggy clothes
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are the cats that I'm coolin with, when we be together
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Two and two equals four but Foreign Objects be forever
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So, just let me flow as I reach up to the next plateau
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And then you'll give me my respect
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Uhh, cause I'm a Foreign Object
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[BROther ?uestion]
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Now get loose, get loose, A.J. Shine get loose
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And just rock heart-beat showin you got the juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[A.J. Shine]
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First off, I'm burstin off shots of gab
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and gettin lifted by the gift, I start to jab
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The rhymes that I grab send schools to the slab
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As I write scores, the funky orator's gone
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on some next ish lookin
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for the next fish with a wish that used to be a duck
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but now you're stuck dumbstruck
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Trying to hang but you can't swim I think you're fucked
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You traded in your blues for boom, tap shoes
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I do shows and change all opposing views
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I get down, I go up as I blow up
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cause I got this O.M.B. rhyme you can't defuse
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Yeahhh, here to rock all of you rockers
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When I carry the ball, I stay be-hind my blockers
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I move swift, I needs no lift
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I don't have to riff because I shift the gift
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and now my name is Joseph Simmons, but I'm not Run
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With the mic in my hand, I've only just begun
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to hold mine, I'ma goldmine plus a ton
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The way I shine, I be the rising sun, huh!
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How many times must I have to say
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this I never miss yo when I display?
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From styles I paint the funky picture I portray and
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before I hit the court I made it my forte
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cause I got this, you can come and get this, cause my
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method is the most and I boast so you can bet this
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is like the best of the rest of the flock
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And now you're walkin down the hallways of the Always Jock
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Abbreviated A.J. here for the day
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Bustin rhymes in your face while I'm fadin away
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It's like that y'all, and ya don't stop
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The funky Bid on the root with the hip-hop
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[Black Thought]
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Now.. get loose, get loose, ?uestion get loose
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And, rock heart-beat showin YOU got juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[BROther ?uestion]
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It's me the BROther ?uestion on the M-I-C to flow
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To bust a fat rat-a-tat rhyme one mo' gen'
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I'm flexin with my mental verbalistic chocolate
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Sucker know you're listenin so please get off of it
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A score and two years ago began the ?uestion's mission
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South of 52nd Street, on ?
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and anybody wanna diss the sure shot body rock
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fresh flowin dude, we can take it to the stage
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Sucker, Foreign Objects coming soon
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From the rat cave to a room with a view
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My brother's B.G., and my band is Josh U
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And the stank whole rhythmic funk, plus my nuc'
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You can comprehend the verbal letters that I send
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Ahh, ooooh, ahhhh, like Boyz II Men
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I don't have a Benz-y shoes are walkin like Jimmy
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Make em say, "Yo ?uestion's demi," make em squeal like ?
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Man, yo, I jams on every gram
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Move out the way, I gets on, rockin round the clock
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In school I used to doodle, nowadays I use my noodle
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And I'll be rockin planets, and soon I'm livin fatter
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I'm a levelheaded son who knows where I came from
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Umm, lights, camera... ?uestion
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[? ? ?]
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Get loose, get loose, Black Thought get loose
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And just rock heartbeat showin you got the juice
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And have fun (HAVE FUN) have fun (HAVE FUN)
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Have, HAVE, HAVE FUN!!!!
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[Black Thought]
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Well umm, yik-yik yak-yak, chi-chi-chi-ka-SPLACK
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Thoughts that I stutter and brother that I left back behind
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Lines of swine I'm qualified for groovy stew achoo
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I caught the boogie like the flu and God Bless the Black
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Cardiac cerebral abstract cathedral
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The mental is the temple and the central sees you tryin to flam!
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Man I catch a lift like Bob Mar-ley, and par-lay
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On airy clouds I drop, bombs like a Sau-di, Arabian
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Flocks I rocks like Fabian
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It's the nipple sex upon the grits that call me baby and
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run a finger, through the knaps of the rap, singer that
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pull a scat, from the stack, that I keep in the shack
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of my soul, bring the bowl I got the flat out good
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That's why I'm dug by the hippies plus the pimps and hoods
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in the slum, could I umm, come, should I umm, come
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Yes I does, and gets down said I wasn't know that I was
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but they gel, that's why they blow up cause they didn't give spect
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to the erector of the Foreign Object, I collect, to preserve
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Plus develop and envelop in The Roots of rhyme
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Yo that's the end of the line, I got mine, and I'm out
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[Brother ?uestion]
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A-ha! Ahh, suki suki now
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It's the Brother ?uestion
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and now you know how it is
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when the Foreign Objects get wreck
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Like that, yeah, ha ha ha
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And we out y'all, and we out y'all
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And we out y'all, and we out y'all
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And we out y'all...
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