[ti:No Great Pretender] [ar:The Roots] [al:Illadelph Halflife (Explicit Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]No Great Pretender (Album Version|Explicit) - The Roots [00:05.06]Check it out one two [00:06.97]M Illi Tant [00:08.67]I be the alias Malik B [00:11.65]Internationale rationale [00:14.09]All the people up 68th Ave [00:15.79]And across Broad Street [00:17.34]Or Silk Lane in South Philly [00:18.93]And on at cetera [00:21.58]Check it out check it out [00:23.01]Here on this agenda [00:24.33]There is no pretenders [00:25.64]So when we begin to [00:26.77]Assassinate your cast members [00:28.52]Here on this agenda [00:29.60]There is no pretenders [00:30.88]So when we begin to [00:32.16]Assassinate your cast members [00:33.58]Dig it cool calm collect [00:35.79]In my perspective [00:36.69]Search the premises [00:37.68]I leave no clues for detectives [00:39.29]My verbal impact across your back slap [00:41.86]You talk about you see me [00:43.10]But your vision's full of cataract [00:44.46]It don't matter that your [00:46.07]Glass house I shatter that [00:47.14]Bad luck I walk under now [00:48.59]Show me where the ladder at [00:50.00]Pull up the urinal organs up [00:51.31]In your bladder cat [00:52.45]Approachin' you with shriller [00:53.58]Rhetoric as if you had a sac [00:55.21]Now crews down for it [00:56.25]Your gas pedal floor it [00:57.31]With ammo and artillery and [00:58.55]Stash spots to keep and store it [01:00.10]I used the banner of a slant with a zort [01:02.41]Change your strategic plan [01:03.74]My man's getting bored [01:05.14]Your vocal chord is fraudulent [01:06.54]And not the true porcelain [01:08.24]I bring the fire earth [01:09.74]And the source of wind [01:10.90]The force of sin will endorse the pen [01:12.81]We all search for sanity [01:14.02]But I think that it was lost again [01:15.67]Now which stick of artists [01:17.10]Can be the smartest [01:18.11]My beam of sunlight shines [01:19.63]The brightest in the forest [01:20.79]Regardless artists dislike [01:22.59]Because I'm trimper [01:23.41]Control the temper makin' MC's whimper [01:26.08]I tilt the Earth from off [01:27.78]The axis in the center [01:28.87]Next I'm in the womb like a placenta [01:30.73]M Illi Tant the city ninja uplift [01:33.12]Cause I'm the soul avenger [01:34.60]Remember I'm no great pretender [01:36.34]Here on this agenda [01:37.39]There is no pretenders [01:38.66]So when we begin to assassinate [01:40.40]Your cast members [01:41.02]Here on this agenda [01:42.30]There is no pretenders [01:43.66]So when we begin to assassinate [01:45.55]Your cast members [01:46.27]Here on this agenda [01:47.65]There is no pretenders [01:48.96]So when we begin to assassinate [01:50.48]Your cast members [01:51.47]Here on this agenda [01:52.81]There is no pretenders [01:54.02]So when we begin to assassinate [01:55.84]Your cast members [01:57.97]Strategies I bet y'all niggaz [01:59.36]Can't believe this [02:00.14]I read you like a whole [02:01.34]Avenue that's filled with meters [02:02.51]Parked f**k your back talk [02:04.10]I watch how niggaz cat walk [02:05.30]Over my pit of venom and [02:06.72]Send em to the asphalt [02:07.86]For inquisitive who wanna try to test me [02:10.49]What protects me will make [02:11.87]You shake like epilepsy [02:12.88]Plague your neighborhood [02:14.20]With lyrical Le prosy [02:15.43]Stimulate more than Ecstasy [02:16.77]Y'all niggaz check my recipe [02:18.09]Dig it I must observe it [02:19.65]Analyze when I'm chillin' [02:20.79]Peep out who's the villain [02:22.06]Then make your whole pavilion [02:23.26]Of a Sicilian excuse the [02:24.84]Greed don't want a mill [02:25.74]I want a zillion stacks of [02:27.27]Franklin's to the ceiling [02:28.54]I counts stacks imported [02:29.83]F**k the yacht and the mansion [02:31.31]I want Pluto and Jupiter [02:32.49]Political universal expansion [02:34.19]Buy out Tommy and Hale Hanson [02:36.77]You hold it for ransom [02:38.99]Pass it down to my grandson [02:40.53]I got no time to be romancin' [02:42.50]Only time's for mental [02:43.68]Food and advancement [02:44.31]This game of Life is strictly [02:45.97]Chancein' get to know [02:47.07]The nature before I get know [02:48.41]The ni**a while I'm glancing [02:49.93]Enhancing is my mental [02:51.27]I play in the midst [02:52.68]A squad a team most crews [02:53.93]Is not in the half's of rentals [02:55.27]My utensils display a whole variety [02:57.49]Even when in the cut niggaz [02:59.05]Can't cut they anxiety [03:00.10]Peep I fill your brain with [03:01.45]Suspicion pay attention [03:02.65]Like you paid tuition and [03:04.04]Stop all your bull ishin' [03:05.29]The rap chemist in the [03:06.79]Lab to the finish [03:07.74]The mike is my apprentice [03:09.03]Cause I can't stand [03:09.98]Courts or tennis my pigmentation [03:12.20]Is the menace [03:13.19]That's why the system's always tryin' [03:14.89]To pursue with a blemish [03:16.02]Pale asses think a ni**a in this [03:17.90]My flows tremendous for [03:19.48]The meal you can't replenish [03:20.77]The question you ask me [03:22.08]Situation get worse [03:22.82]Flam I won't befriend ya [03:24.54]Cause I'm no great pretender [03:25.72]Here on this agenda [03:26.76]There is no pretenders [03:28.16]So when we begin to assassinate [03:29.82]Your cast members [03:30.75]Here on this agenda [03:31.93]There is no pretenders [03:33.29]So when we begin to assassinate [03:34.97]Your cast members [03:36.03]Here on this agenda [03:37.16]There is no pretenders [03:38.45]So when we begin to assassinate [03:40.02]Your cast members [03:41.23]Here on this agenda [03:42.40]There is no pretenders [03:43.73]So when we begin to assassinate [03:45.41]Your cast members [03:46.55]It's like that one time for your mind [03:48.89]Fifth Dynasty intertwine and combine [03:51.57]M Illi Tant [03:52.74]The Bad Lieuten ant one [03:54.25]Hundred X Bahamadia [03:56.04]Minds and souls like that [03:58.67]P R Star [03:59.37]My man Slick Look a [04:02.45]Check it out one time like that [04:05.02]Feel the Fifth the One Fifth attack [04:08.56]Your backbone and spine [04:11.63]Check it out brother Q U E S T