[00:00.00]BOOM !-The Roots
[00:09.939]Hold your flix I'm not for the photo op's
[00:11.863]It's Black code name Yaphet Kotto ock
[00:13.863]My twist like a ratchet in an auto shop
[00:15.863]Since granddaddy old Desoto stopped
[00:17.911]And he got the Caddie
[00:19.81]I been gladly servin
[00:19.928]Any y'all cats wanna act determined
[00:21.774]Spit pesticides for rats and vermin
[00:23.838]Seem like none of y'all chumps is learning
[00:25.774]Y'all hopeless and I'm a little better than d**e is
[00:27.893]Far from a brand new kid to show biz
[00:30.113]Tryna hold on maintain my focus
[00:31.613]Coming out a room with a could of smoke
[00:33.597]Smokers rolling with the punches
[00:34.877]I survive and rock
[00:35.671]Cause I keep the crowd alive
[00:37.501]And the texture of my voice
[00:38.673]Is course and kind of hoarse and cut
[00:40.455]Like I'm throwing a thousand knives
[00:41.827]Party people gather round what
[00:42.973]We have here is a brand new sound
[00:45.765]Reach for my waist you hit the ground
[00:47.732]You better duck when that awful sound goes
[00:49.592]Boom
[00:52.436]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot
[00:55.504]Thats what's happenin on stage
[00:57.454]The man at hand that rule the school
[00:59.20]And reach and teach the blind
[01:00.36]And find a way from A to Z
[01:01.727]And be the most to boast I'm load and proud
[01:03.585]The game and reign that remain
[01:05.241]The heat is on so feel
[01:07.147]The fire come off the empire or the
[01:08.693]More higher level of depth one step beyond d**e
[01:11.07]To suckers all scope and hope to cop a note
[01:13.113]Cause I could never let em on top of me
[01:15.915]I play em out like a game of Monopoly
[01:17.714]Let it speed around the board like an astro
[01:19.708]And send them to jail for tryna pass go
[01:21.880]Shaking them up
[01:22.392]Breaking them up
[01:22.908]Taking no stuff
[01:23.440]But it still ain't loud enough
[01:24.846]So quest love let the fire roast
[01:26.630]So I can flow and we can kill the whole show cause
[01:29.192]Party people gather round what
[01:30.116]We have here is a brand new sound
[01:32.912]Reach for my waist you hit the ground
[01:34.722]You better duck when that awful sound goes
[01:36.942]Boom
[01:39.600]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot
[01:42.708]Thats what's happenin on stage
[01:44.708]I'm live
[01:45.148]Design a finer rhyme that's right on time
[01:46.878]One step beynd and not behind the line
[01:48.614]That seperates thought from divine
[01:50.378]You can take it as a caution or a warning sign
[01:52.846]Look for antonyms
[01:53.442]Words I'm sending em
[01:54.722]Homonyms synonyms good like MM's
[01:56.362]You know the time when it's Riq Gees slicing
[01:58.484]I turn a Mic's last name into Tyson
[02:00.532]My brain like a factory constantly creating
[02:02.458]Materials stitch by stitch for decoration
[02:04.270]My lyrics one fabric the beat is a lining
[02:06.410]My passion of rhyming is fashion designing
[02:08.271]Now it get sorted cause people wanna sport it ya bought it
[02:10.943]If you didn't then you couldn't afford it
[02:12.538]Poetry full of surprises it's like a game show
[02:14.456]And my brain go
[02:15.538]I do my thing yo
[02:16.646]Party people gather round what
[02:17.582]We have here is a brand new sound
[02:20.128]Reach for my waist you hit the ground
[02:22.114]You better duck when that awful sound goes
[02:24.222]Boom
[02:26.958]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot
[02:30.102]Thats what's happenin on stage