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 [00:11.86]It's Black code name Yaphet Kotto ock [00:13.86]My twist like a ratchet in an auto shop [00:15.86]Since granddaddy old Desoto stopped [00:17.11] [00:17.91]And he got the Caddie [00:19.08]I been gladly servin [00:19.92]Any y'all cats wanna act determined [00:21.77]Spit pesticides for rats and vermin [00:23.83]Seem like none of y'all chumps is learning [00:25.77]Y'all hopeless and I'm a little better than d**e is [00:27.89]Far from a brand new kid to show biz [00:30.11]Tryna hold on maintain my focus [00:31.61]Coming out a room with a could of smoke [00:33.59]Smokers rolling with the punches [00:34.87]I survive and rock [00:35.67]Cause I keep the crowd alive [00:37.50]And the texture of my voice [00:38.67]Is course and kind of hoarse and cut [00:40.45]Like I'm throwing a thousand knives [00:41.82]Party people gather round what [00:42.97]We have here is a brand new sound [00:45.76]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [00:47.73]You better duck when that awful sound goes [00:49.59]Boom [00:52.43]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [00:53.81] [00:55.50]Thats what's happenin on stage [00:57.45]The man at hand that rule the school [00:59.02]And reach and teach the blind [01:00.03]And find a way from A to Z [01:01.72]And be the most to boast I'm load and proud [01:03.58]The game and reign that remain [01:04.72] [01:05.24]The heat is on so feel [01:07.14]The fire come off the empire or the [01:08.69]More higher level of depth one step beyond d**e [01:11.00]To suckers all scope and hope to cop a note [01:13.11]Cause I could never let em on top of me [01:15.91]I play em out like a game of Monopoly [01:17.71]Let it speed around the board like an astro [01:19.70]And send them to jail for tryna pass go [01:21.88]Shaking them up [01:22.39]Breaking them up [01:22.90]Taking no stuff [01:23.44]But it still ain't loud enough [01:24.84]So quest love let the fire roast [01:26.63]So I can flow and we can kill the whole show cause [01:29.19]Party people gather round what [01:30.11]We have here is a brand new sound [01:32.36] [01:32.91]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [01:34.72]You better duck when that awful sound goes [01:36.94]Boom [01:38.73] [01:39.60]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [01:41.05] [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 [01:48.61]That seperates thought from divine [01:49.84] [01:50.37]You can take it as a caution or a warning sign [01:52.84]Look for antonyms [01:53.44]Words I'm sending em [01:54.72]Homonyms synonyms good like MM's [01:56.36]You know the time when it's Riq Gees slicing [01:58.48]I turn a Mic's last name into Tyson [02:00.53]My brain like a factory constantly creating [02:02.45]Materials stitch by stitch for decoration [02:04.27]My lyrics one fabric the beat is a lining [02:06.41]My passion of rhyming is fashion designing [02:07.72] [02:08.27]Now it get sorted cause people wanna sport it ya bought it [02:10.94]If you didn't then you couldn't afford it [02:12.53]Poetry full of surprises it's like a game show [02:14.45]And my brain go [02:15.53]I do my thing yo [02:16.64]Party people gather round what [02:17.58]We have here is a brand new sound [02:20.12]Reach for my waist you hit the ground [02:22.11]You better duck when that awful sound goes [02:24.22]Boom [02:26.95]Thats what's happenin in the parking lot [02:28.45] [02:30.10]Thats what's happenin on stage