BOOM! (Explicit)-The Roots

[ti:BOOM!] [ar:The Roots] [al:The Tipping Point] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]BOOM! (Explicit) - The Roots [00:09.91]Hold your flix I'm not for the photo op's [00:11.83]It's Black code name Yaphet Kotto ock [00:13.83]My twist like a ratchet in an auto shop [00:15.83]Since granddaddy old Desoto stopped [00:17.08] [00:17.88]And he got the Caddie [00:19.05]I been gladly servin [00:19.90]Any y'all cats wanna act determined [00:21.74]Spit pesticides for rats and vermin [00:23.81]Seem like none of y'all chumps is learning [00:25.74]Y'all hopeless and I'm a little better than d**e is [00:27.86]Far from a brand new kid to show biz [00:30.08]Tryna hold on maintain my focus [00:31.58]Coming out a room with a could of smoke [00:33.57]Smokers rolling with the punches [00:34.85]I survive and rock [00:35.64]Cause I keep the crowd alive [00:37.47]And the texture of my voice [00:38.64]Is course and kind of hoarse and cut [00:40.42]Like I'm throwing a thousand knives [00:41.80]Party people gather round what [00:42.94]We have here is a brand new sound [00:45.73]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [00:47.70]You better duck when that awful sound goes [00:49.56]Boom [00:52.40]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [00:53.78] [00:55.47]Thats what's happenin on stage [00:57.42]The man at hand that rule the school [00:58.99]And reach and teach the blind [01:00.00]And find a way from A to Z [01:01.70]And be the most to boast I'm load and proud [01:03.55]The game and reign that remain [01:04.70] [01:05.21]The heat is on so feel [01:07.12]The fire come off the empire or the [01:08.66]More higher level of depth one step beyond d**e [01:10.98]To suckers all scope and hope to cop a note [01:13.08]Cause I could never let em on top of me [01:15.88]I play em out like a game of Monopoly [01:17.68]Let it speed around the board like an astro [01:19.68]And send them to jail for tryna pass go [01:21.85]Shaking them up [01:22.36]Breaking them up [01:22.88]Taking no stuff [01:23.41]But it still ain't loud enough [01:24.81]So quest love let the fire roast [01:26.60]So I can flow and we can kill the whole show cause [01:29.16]Party people gather round what [01:30.08]We have here is a brand new sound [01:32.33] [01:32.88]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [01:34.69]You better duck when that awful sound goes [01:36.91]Boom [01:38.71] [01:39.57]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [01:41.02] [01:42.68]Thats what's happenin on stage [01:44.68]I'm live [01:45.12]Design a finer rhyme that's right on time [01:46.85]One step beynd and not behind the line [01:48.58]That seperates thought from divine [01:49.81] [01:50.35]You can take it as a caution or a warning sign [01:52.81]Look for antonyms [01:53.41]Words I'm sending em [01:54.69]Homonyms synonyms good like MM's [01:56.33]You know the time when it's Riq Gees slicing [01:58.45]I turn a Mic's last name into Tyson [02:00.50]My brain like a factory constantly creating [02:02.43]Materials stitch by stitch for decoration [02:04.24]My lyrics one fabric the beat is a lining [02:06.38]My passion of rhyming is fashion designing [02:07.70] [02:08.24]Now it get sorted cause people wanna sport it ya bought it [02:10.91]If you didn't then you couldn't afford it [02:12.51]Poetry full of surprises it's like a game show [02:14.42]And my brain go [02:15.51]I do my thing yo [02:16.61]Party people gather round what [02:17.55]We have here is a brand new sound [02:20.10]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [02:22.08]You better duck when that awful sound goes [02:24.19]Boom [02:26.93]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [02:28.43] [02:30.07]Thats what's happenin on stage