BOOM!-The Roots

[ti:BOOM!] [ar:The Roots] [al:The Tipping Point] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]BOOM! - The Roots [00:09.93]Hold your flix I'm not for the photo op's [00:11.85]It's Black code name Yaphet Kotto ock [00:13.85]My twist like a ratchet in an auto shop [00:15.85]Since granddaddy old Desoto stopped [00:17.10] [00:17.90]And he got the Caddie [00:19.07]I been gladly servin [00:19.92]Any y'all cats wanna act determined [00:21.76]Spit pesticides for rats and vermin [00:23.83]Seem like none of y'all chumps is learning [00:25.76]Y'all hopeless and I'm a little better than d**e is [00:27.88]Far from a brand new kid to show biz [00:30.10]Tryna hold on maintain my focus [00:31.60]Coming out a room with a could of smoke [00:33.59]Smokers rolling with the punches [00:34.87]I survive and rock [00:35.66]Cause I keep the crowd alive [00:37.49]And the texture of my voice [00:38.66]Is course and kind of hoarse and cut [00:40.44]Like I'm throwing a thousand knives [00:41.82]Party people gather round what [00:42.96]We have here is a brand new sound [00:45.75]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [00:47.72]You better duck when that awful sound goes [00:49.58]Boom [00:52.42]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [00:53.80] [00:55.49]Thats what's happenin on stage [00:57.44]The man at hand that rule the school [00:59.01]And reach and teach the blind [01:00.02]And find a way from A to Z [01:01.72]And be the most to boast I'm load and proud [01:03.57]The game and reign that remain [01:04.72] [01:05.23]The heat is on so feel [01:07.14]The fire come off the empire or the [01:08.68]More higher level of depth one step beyond d**e [01:11.00]To suckers all scope and hope to cop a note [01:13.10]Cause I could never let em on top of me [01:15.90]I play em out like a game of Monopoly [01:17.70]Let it speed around the board like an astro [01:19.70]And send them to jail for tryna pass go [01:21.87]Shaking them up [01:22.38]Breaking them up [01:22.90]Taking no stuff [01:23.43]But it still ain't loud enough [01:24.83]So quest love let the fire roast [01:26.62]So I can flow and we can kill the whole show cause [01:29.18]Party people gather round what [01:30.10]We have here is a brand new sound [01:32.35] [01:32.90]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [01:34.71]You better duck when that awful sound goes [01:36.93]Boom [01:38.73] [01:39.59]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [01:41.04] [01:42.70]Thats what's happenin on stage [01:44.70]I'm live [01:45.14]Design a finer rhyme that's right on time [01:46.87]One step beynd and not behind the line [01:48.60]That seperates thought from divine [01:49.83] [01:50.37]You can take it as a caution or a warning sign [01:52.83]Look for antonyms [01:53.43]Words I'm sending em [01:54.71]Homonyms synonyms good like MM's [01:56.35]You know the time when it's Riq Gees slicing [01:58.47]I turn a Mic's last name into Tyson [02:00.52]My brain like a factory constantly creating [02:02.45]Materials stitch by stitch for decoration [02:04.26]My lyrics one fabric the beat is a lining [02:06.40]My passion of rhyming is fashion designing [02:07.72] [02:08.26]Now it get sorted cause people wanna sport it ya bought it [02:10.93]If you didn't then you couldn't afford it [02:12.53]Poetry full of surprises it's like a game show [02:14.44]And my brain go [02:15.53]I do my thing yo [02:16.63]Party people gather round what [02:17.57]We have here is a brand new sound [02:20.12]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [02:22.10]You better duck when that awful sound goes [02:24.21]Boom [02:26.95]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [02:28.45] [02:30.09]Thats what's happenin on stage