[ti:Quills] [ar:The Roots] [al:Phrenology (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Quills (Explicit) - The Roots/Tracey Moore [00:20.21]Don't stop (uh don't stop yo) [00:22.24]Tonight (cheeba cheeba yo soul shock yo) [00:26.04](Give it everything you got yo) [00:27.98](Once again it's time it's time) [00:30.25]Yo piss in the staircase blood on the pavement [00:33.22]I fill the quills with it let it spill on the pages [00:35.89]Compose another anthem for the killers and manglers [00:38.23]Villains and wranglers fifth still in the chamber [00:40.80]Sh*t I'm scientific but my reflex's gangsta [00:42.89]Pull out [00:43.76]Rageous arms from the floor of the basement [00:45.55]Then bust 'nuff talons if my peoplez in danger [00:48.46]I'm Larry Davis duckin' helicopter [00:50.73]Hoverin' government agents [00:52.55]We muscle the language [00:53.67]What we spit will leave your sh*t in utter amazement [00:56.03]I'm hot brolic call it contagious [00:58.02]The sh*t the Roots started got these [00:59.77]Other artists going through changes [01:01.05]My vision is the strangest the rhythm is anguish [01:03.64]Y'all niggaz on the titty in your formative stages [01:06.21]Is something in the iris and the way I spit [01:08.49]That tell these other crab rappers I ain't fo' no sh*t [01:10.95]Black traumatic so there you have it [01:13.00]My battin' average abort full of [01:14.42]Graphic assault it's all classic [01:16.12]Thought put a**-backwards rappers in a small package [01:19.04]Experience is all that is I'm well established [01:21.46]Me and the mic in holy matrimony like a marriage [01:24.19]The technique in your reach if only you could have it [01:26.72]For me it's automatic it's na-tu-ral I'm mad thoro [01:30.03]Poet for hired pack metal [01:31.53]You feel me [01:41.13]Yo the load heavy [01:42.33]We walk around a little edgy all ready and steady [01:44.92]Withdrawal like Darryl Strawberry it figures [01:47.38]Niggaz mad from them ghetto sandwiches and swine [01:50.12]Cryin' hard times disadvantegeous man listen [01:52.54]The story in the ghetto the same [01:54.34]Seem like it's just some things that never will change [01:57.01]Give birth to a style and won't give it a name [01:59.54]Talk about consciousness it's a different thing [02:01.88]Envision again the honorable 'Riq general Hannibal speak [02:05.35]The understandable diabolique animal style [02:07.04]Out of your dreams kid you proud that you seen this [02:10.08]Fifth supreme linguist a lyrical genious [02:12.18]Inject you with the broke down english [02:14.25]The most freshest and cleanest three G's [02:16.10]Guess what the fame is [02:17.74]Kareem's beat makin' me fiendish [02:19.30]Don't act shaky and squeamish [02:20.35]If you real make me believe it ni**a [02:31.95]Yo the rebel Che Guevara [02:33.58]You felt another date you better [02:34.91]Don't copped off create it just save your cheddar [02:37.52]I hit the studio with a pen and a vendetta [02:40.00]Sippin' an ice cold Beck huffin' the tenth letter [02:42.53]Driftin' shots lickin while the plot thickens [02:45.25]Sands in the hourglass thinnin' the last inning [02:48.05]The flash and the cash and the fast women [02:50.17]It's nothing a lust for the crabs keep the passion and [02:53.16]Blaow kissin' my tablet with firing pins [02:55.34]Poke holes in the plastic for oxygen [02:57.83]MCs jumpin' out shoes and socks again [03:00.45]Must have seen their face in the news it's gots to been [03:03.60]Thought known as the cure for cancer [03:05.71]Same corrupt city as Mumia the Panther [03:08.34]Man to man hammer cocked block and standoff [03:10.83]Bang gunfire slang up in the dance hall [03:13.33]Yo I hold the mic that could be thrown as a pipe bomb [03:16.11]Bring it just to sling it at your favorite icon [03:18.55]Thing about my music is it ain't sh*t like y'all [03:20.83]Thought dislike a 28-inch python [03:24.21]You know what I'm saying [03:26.26]When I'm on the mic there won't be no delayin