What They Do-The Roots

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[al:Home Grown! The Beginners Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vols. 1 and 2]
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[00:00.00]What They Do - The Roots
[00:13.33]Written by：Jimmy Grey/Brown/Ahmir Thompson/Tariq Trotter/Raphael Saadiq/Leonard Hubbard
[00:26.66]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[00:36.96]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[00:46.06]Yo yo
[00:46.80]Lost generation fast paced nation
[00:49.40]World population confront they frustration
[00:51.90]The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken
[00:54.14]It's all contractual and about money making
[00:56.99]Pretend-to-be cats don't seem to know they limitation
[00:59.66]Exact replication and false representation
[01:02.21]You wanna be a man then stand your own
[01:04.43]To MC requires skills I demand some shown
[01:07.16]I let the frauds keep fronting
[01:08.65]And roam like a celluar phone far from home
[01:11.17]Giving crowds what they wanting
[01:12.54]Offical hip-hop consumption the 5th thumping
[01:15.16]Keeping ya party jumping with an original something
[01:17.73]Yo I dedicate this to the one dimension-al
[01:20.19]No imagination excuse for perpetration
[01:22.96]My man came over and said yo we thought we heard you
[01:25.82]Joke's on you you heard a bitin-a** crew but um
[01:28.46]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[01:39.07]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[01:49.17]Thin is the line that run between love and hatred
[01:51.42]The game is ill-natured it's nothing sacred
[01:53.76]Aiyyo it's funny when I see some rap niggaz due to make it
[01:56.57]A few'll blow up or go as far as they can take it
[01:59.16]My nine to five is just to hit ya get the party live
[02:02.04]I'm Black Thought used to rap for sport
[02:04.09]Now the rhymes saying rent paying life support
[02:06.59]I take it very serious-ly within this in-dustry
[02:09.53]It's various crews that try to touch me
[02:11.48]But I come with the beautiful things and I bless the track plushly
[02:14.68]Around the world crowds love me from doing tours
[02:17.24]Recepient of applause from all of you and yours
[02:19.90]Creator of original sounds to send to stores
[02:22.26]You take home to absorb and sweat it out your pores
[02:25.02]Now who can stop the music running through these veins
[02:27.41]Infinitely go against the grain that's why my motto's to
[02:30.81]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[02:41.16]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[02:51.39]Living the life of limos and lights
[02:53.41]Airplanes and trains short days and long nights
[02:56.00]Keyboards and mics bass chords and drum kicks
[02:58.65]And my mental thick to hit my head like brick
[03:00.98]As I embark on a mission welcoming to the dark
[03:03.52]When I first spark the arts when the listening start
[03:06.19]Open your head wide and let the thought inside
[03:08.68]My style fortified by all of Philadel-phi
[03:11.67]I've dealt more stealth than all the wicked weal-thy
[03:14.07]Mentality undetectable by the naked eye
[03:16.87]Then I get paid when the record is played
[03:19.06]To put it short I want it made like Ed nuff said
[03:21.98]Then after that I'm putting on my cousin Hamed
[03:24.27]We let the ladies blend with the darksking thoroughbred
[03:26.95]And discover my level is that of no other
[03:29.47]And Roots crew reign offical and true while I'm continuing to
[03:32.95]Never do what they do what they do what they do
[03:43.25]Never do what they do what they do what they do