[ti:Act Won (Things Fall Apart)] [ar:The Roots] [al:The Roots (International Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Act Won (Things Fall Apart) - The Roots [00:00.39]Written by:Ahmir Thompson [00:00.78]You are all [00:02.09]We don't even come to see our own man [00:03.69]Listen Freddy listen [00:05.45]I said [00:06.18]You know we had to depend upon black people to eat [00:09.45]We would starve to death [00:10.39]Everybody listen up [00:11.09]You've been out there [00:11.79]You on the bandstand [00:12.86]You look out there [00:13.59]What do you see [00:14.09]You see Japanese you see you see [00:16.30]West Germans [00:17.41]You see Slobovic you know anything except our people man [00:20.62]It makes no sense it incenses me that our own people [00:24.02]Don't realize our own heritage our own culture [00:26.41]This is our music [00:27.58]That's bullsh*t [00:28.64]Why [00:29.13]That's all bullsh*t [00:30.47]Everything [00:31.87]Everything you just said is bullsh*t [00:34.04]You're complaining about [00:35.03]I'm talking about the audience [00:36.45]That's right [00:37.22]The people don't come because you grandiose motherf**kers don't play [00:39.78]Sh*t that they like If you played the sh*t that they liked [00:42.09]Then the people would come [00:43.27]Simple as that [00:44.03]Inevitably [00:45.12]Hip hop records [00:46.82]Are treated as though they are disposable [00:49.28]They are not maximized as product in a [00:52.63]In a not to mention as art