The Roots - Proceed Lyrics

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Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

Jeff X can rock the mic with tooth decay

I be the 5 foot 7, residing at the mecca lesson south section

Used to cut class in the infinite pursuit of ass

Back in eighty-six

Easy with the chics I was a chocolate boy

Raised in the cellar with the rhythm like Ella

Walking down the streets to the subway where i lay

Til the train stop then a nigga hop

Used to do the pop dance to the planet rock

At the block party everybody jocked (who me?)

It's the MC sucka niggaz envy

I got my contract in 1993 and

I shall proceed

 

Chorus: repeat 2X

 

I shall, proceed

And continue, to rock the mic

 

Verse Two:

 

I wake up early in the morning, I mean early afternoon

Break a lyrical hymn of the stem like boom

I'm flyer when I'm higher put my shit up on a tomb

That nigga represented on the 28th of June

I'm representing philly on the 28th of June

I can make you feel that i'm a surreal cartoon

With my pistol in the face of hip hop, stick in your face

Because i'm on a paper chase, yes i'm on a paper chase

My Timberlands are fully laced I be the Mr. Boogeyman

With records from 125th to Japan

I laid them play like Johnny Hathaway and shake a hand, shake a hand

Your lady tried to kick it, but I couldn't play my man

My niggaz is my niggaz ya see she didn't understand

I shake your hand and shit'll hit the fan, just think

Just think, what? What if you could, just blink, what?

Just blink yourself away?

 

Chorus

 

Verse Three:

 

Malik B get on the mic yo there's too much on my mind (say what?)

Malik get on the mic, there's too much on my mind

Johnny on the spot, got the rhythm and the rhyme

Fuckin with The Roots you know them niggaz is the dime

I can make a hundred yard line start to dash

I can make a whole lake of fish start to splash

I can make Conan and the Titans clash

I can Metallica and guns 'N Roses crash

Used to smash crash parties like i was disturbed

Used to make plots against the herringbone herb

But now, all I do disperse the verb

And like a nerd i can make you say, He's superb

Word is perfect, never ever shall you misinterpret

I move styles like bowels so now you know i'm worth it

Direct from Philly, the lands where niggas scheme

So you know I got the sheen in my gleam

 

Chorus

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The Roots - The Seed 2.0 Lyrics

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(Verse 1: Black Thought)

Knocked up 9 months ago

And what she fit'na have she don't know

She want neo-soul, this hip-hop is old

She don't want no rock-n-roll

She want platinum or ice 'n' gold

She want a whole lotta somethin' to fold

If you a obstacle she just drop ya cold

Cuz one monkey don't stop the show

Little Mary is bad

In these streets she done ran

E'er since when the heat began

I told the girl Look here

Calm down I'ma hold your hand

To enable you to peep the plan

Cuz you is quick to learn

And we can make money to burn

If you allow me the latest game

I don't ask for much, but enough room to spread my wings

And the world fit'na know my name

 

(Choru: Cody Chesnutt)

I don't ask, for much these days

And I don't bitch and whine if I don't get my way

I only wanna fertilize another behind my lover's back

I sit and watch it grow standin' where I'm at

Fertilize another behind my lover's back

And I'm keepin' my secrets mine

I push my seed in her bush for life

Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right

If Mary drop' my baby girl tonight

I would name her Rock 'n' Roll

 

(Verse 2: Black Thought)

Uh-huh

Cadillac need space to roam

Where we headin' fo' she don't know

We in the city where the pros shake, rattle, and roll

And I'm a gaddang rollin' stone

I don't beg, I can hold my own

I don't break, I can hold the chrome

And it's weighin' a ton and I'm a son of a gun

My code name is The Only One and Black Thought is bad

These streets he done ran e'er since when the game began

I never played a fool

Matta fact I be keepin' it cool

Since money been changin' hands

And I'm left to shine, the legacy that I leave behind be the seed

That'll keep the flame

I don't ask for much but enough room to spread these wings

And the world fit'na know my name

 

(Chorus: Cody Chesnutt)

I don't beg for no rich man

And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man

'Cause I know how to still

Fertilize another against my lover's will

I lick the opposition 'Cause she don't take no pill

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-no dear

You'll be keeping my legend alive

I push my seed in her bush for life

Its gonna work because I'm pushin' it right

If Mary drop my baby girl tonight

I would name her Rock 'n' Roll

Oh-ooh break it down, break it down, down beat

 

(Break)

I push my seed somewhere deep in her chest

I push it naked 'Cause I've taken my test

Deliver it Mary, it don't matter the sex

I'm gon' name it Rock 'n' Roll

I push my seed in her bush for life

It's gonna work because I'm pushin' it right

If Mary drop my baby girl, tonight

I would name her Rock 'n' Roll

I would name her Rock 'n' Roll

I would name her Rock 'n' Roll, yeah

I would name it Rock 'n' Roll

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The Roots - Silent Treatment Lyrics

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Girl you know that you need

To stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby

Can't you see what you mean to me?

I wanna love you constantly, but you keep neglecting me

And treating me silently

Girl you know that you need

To stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby

Can't you see what you mean to me?

I wanna love you constantly, but you keep neglecting me

And treating me silently

 

Yo, I had a Queen named Amina, height 5'7

Caramel-complected, body like heaven

Met her through the sister of my man Big Vince

Like some shit from out the flicks we been in love ever since

She called me her chocolate brotha, I call her my sugar sista

Knew Shorty could work it since before I ever kissed her

I never dissed her, painted my picture to hit

But because sex she wasn't with, she started flippin an' shit

Like, Listen man, I'm Queen Amina, Amina's not no freak and

That game is weak and keep tryin to hit I could quit speakin

Tariq in fact, you bein BlackThought don't get ya closer

I dig ya but won't bone ya because I'm so-called supposed ta

Most o' them would, but that couldn't be me, that's not my flava

Go home and think about that, maybe later on I'll page ya...

I contemplated, and then concluded she was bluffin

Steady pursuin screwin, gettin nothin but the silent treatment

 

Girl you know that you need

To stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby

Can't you see what you mean to me?

I wanna love you constantly, but you keep neglecting me

And treating me silently

Bay-bee

 

Crazy frustration, about my lovin situation

When patience was a virtue, but I wasn't used to waitin

I want some Marvin Gaye healin, feelin is real inside

I slip and slide, my ride'll keep you occupied, I'd..

Love to get wit it like that, but my baby's kitty cat's capped

And locked, Love Boat is docked at the shore

And what for? Later for groupies on tour

Why won't my sugar call me no more?

I mean, my Queen gets upset, rejectin and sexually neglect

Then sayin I'm more sewer than Das EFX, and closed-minded

It's like I'm blinded by the skinnin

I'm into women; because of that, this one's into communication

Temptation played the vandal, freakin my brain, my mind

Rippin the handle on physically scandalous acts

Yo! She knew what I wanted, but she fronted

... bust it

 

Girl you know that you need

To stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby

Can't you see what you mean to me?

I wanna love you constantly, but you keep neglecting me

And treating me silently

 

Well umm

Movin right along with the song, plus the strong

Feelings on my mind, desire to intertwine

Combine and blend, baby bust a message that I send

Ain't no need to pretend, cause shit is real til the end

I provide a place to hide from crime, hard times

And livin trife, while I open ya mind, you're in my life

Like love, it ain't no way no one can rise above what's real

That's why I'm feelin like you're makin me bugged

I puff an El on fifty deuce while I walk in the rain

Heart feelin killa pain while I hop the train

Dial her number to the rest, and ain't no messages left

Regardless, my chest thumps from stress, yo it's a mess

I don't know what I got to do to make you understand

I'm for real and that's no question, no frontin or no guessin

Undressin, carressin, in the span, that I contain in my hand

Could touch and make you say that I'm such a man

And call my name, so let me set your body aflame

I'll never treat you like a dame or run game

Now who's to blame?

I know you're not a hoe for niggaz with a lot of dough

But I just wanted you to know

 

Girl you know that you need

To stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby

Can't you see what you mean to me?

I wanna love you constantly, but you keep neglecting me

And treating me silently

Silently, silently

Girl you know that you need

To stop givin' me the silent.. treatment baby

Can't you see what you mean to me?

Silently

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