What They Do-The Roots

[ti:What They Do] [ar:The Roots] [al:Home Grown! The Beginners Guide to Understanding the Roots, Vols. 1 and 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.18]What They Do - The Roots [00:01.17]Written by：Jimmy Grey/Brown/Ahmir Thompson/Tariq Trotter/Raphael Saadiq/Leonard Hubbard [00:02.71] [00:26.66]Never do what they do what they do what they do [00:35.51] [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 [01:19.58] [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 [01:37.65] [01:39.07]Never do what they do what they do what they do [01:48.22] [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 [02:08.87] [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 [02:39.84] [02:41.16]Never do what they do what they do what they do [02:50.49] [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 [03:41.88] [03:43.25]Never do what they do what they do what they do