What They Do-The Roots

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[00:00.00]What They Do - The Roots
[00:13.26]Written by：Raphael Saadiq/Tariq Trotter/Ahmir Thompson/Jimmy Grey/Leonard Hubbard/Brown
[00:26.53]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[00:37.00]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[00:45.95]Yo yo lost generation fast pace nation
[00:49.64]World population confront their frustration
[00:52.10]The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken
[00:54.43]It's all contractual and about money making
[00:57.32]Pretend to be cats don't seem to know their limitations
[00:59.77]Exact replication and false representation
[01:02.36]You wanna be a man then stand your own
[01:04.63]To mc requires skills I demand some shown
[01:07.28]I let the frauds keep fronting
[01:08.83]And roam like a celluar phone far from home
[01:11.35]Giving crowds what they wanted
[01:12.79]Offical hip-hop consumption the 5th dumping
[01:15.33]Keeping you party jumping wit an original something
[01:17.97]Yo I dedicate this to the one dimensional
[01:20.29]No imagination excuse for perpetration
[01:23.11]My man came over and said
[01:24.45]Yo we thought we heard you
[01:26.07]Joke's for you
[01:26.67]We heard your biting a** crew but uh
[01:28.65]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[01:39.09]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[01:49.20]Thin is the line of between love and hatred
[01:51.59]The game is ill-natured it's nothing sacred
[01:53.81]Hey yo it's funny when I see some rap niggaz do the making
[01:56.78]Of you would blow up or go as far as they can take it
[01:59.36]My nine to five is just to hit ya get the party live
[02:02.19]I'm black thought used to rap for sport
[02:04.32]Now the rhymes in went pay a life support
[02:06.85]I take it very seriously within this industry
[02:09.67]It's various crews that try to touch me
[02:11.70]But I come with the beautiful thing
[02:13.25]And I bless the track plushly
[02:14.89]Around the world the crowds love me from doing tours
[02:17.53]Recepient of applause from you and yours
[02:20.03]Creator of original sounds to send to stores you take home
[02:23.30]To absorb and sweat it out your pores
[02:25.21]Now who can stop the music running through these veins
[02:27.63]Infinitely go against the grain
[02:29.46]That's why my motto's to
[02:30.84]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[02:41.01]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[02:51.33]Living the life of limos and lights
[02:53.58]Airplanes and trains
[02:54.75]Short days and long nights
[02:56.17]Keyboards and mics
[02:57.38]Bass chords and drum kicks
[02:58.79]And my mental thick to hit my head like brick
[03:01.12]As I embark on a mission welcoming to the dark
[03:03.84]When I first spark the arts when's the listening start
[03:06.33]Open your head wide and let the thought inside
[03:08.86]My style fortified by all of philladelphy
[03:11.83]I've dealt more stealth than all the wicked wealthy
[03:14.24]Mentality undetectable by the naked eye
[03:16.96]Then I get paid when the record is played
[03:19.22]To put it short I want it made like ed nuff said
[03:22.11]Then after that I'm putting no mind cause how man
[03:24.53]We let the ladies blend with the darksking devil bred and discover
[03:28.05]My level is that of no other
[03:29.55]And roots crew bring offical and true
[03:31.58]While I'm continuing to
[03:32.92]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[03:43.32]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[03:53.68]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[04:04.04]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[04:14.30]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[04:24.70]Never do what they do what they do what they do