for me, he flippin' from the gut, I dug his spirit, and I thought the dude was talented as fuck, And as time went on, and he was working with the finest
Coffee and Cigarettes Then, I commit with some restraint To a boy I thought might care It didn't work but I found out soon And never dug roots there
(with The Roots, feat. CL Smooth) [John Legend] Hope of the world is in our generation (let's straighten it out) It's all left up to us, to change this
, I'm cynical, well, oh now you Know, put a whole in an emcee like cheerio, they don't Hear me though, I work for the struggle I don't work For dough,
with diplomas keeping us in a coma trying to own a piece of the "American Corona" The Revolving Door Insanity every floor Skyscraping, paper chasing What are we working
they ass I'ma tell you like this [Ludacris] And women these days don't want a man without a nice paycheck So we splurge, even though our lives ain't
[Chorus:] Yo we be out man, fukin it up for erbody I can't lie man, they thought I was just getting started Keep the tie man, its the amerrican dream
I got a feelin nigga wit it ? and my money be da root. Look up at da stars, she like "Honey where da roof?" Pull up in a Dawes ?, canaries ? dey go on
I got a feelin nigga grillin and my $ be the root Look up at da stars she like honey where the roof? Pull up in a darkskin nerrys dey goin roof Even once
recognition But I represent no religon or sect So I'm no preacher but I reach your soul Cause I'm stronger than younger Son of Casandra like ganga I grow From tha root
[Black Thought] From the Tunnels in the wee hours of the black morning From The Roots sprout the Foreign Objects family tree This is mad abstract All
neck I'm a releg for it I said listen to behind a hot roller bread for it Contemplating know how to work my math and bred story I don't work my fingers
they see me everybody brrrrrap?s, brrrrrraps man I?m like a young gun fully black Barrack I cried tear drops over the massive attack I only make hits like I work
shall be thought wise, that they may be a rod. What is now proved was only once imagin'd. The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet watch the roots; the
brothers I know Now Rule [Verse Six: Raekwon the Chef] Stash the cream though, Iceatollah ice style gleama Lex graffiti name reamer, hold em we rollin askin me though