Top 20 The Roots

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"Now what we want y'all to do is sit back y'all, and just relax y'all."

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"Counting the faces of those that might have been
It’s like living that life but I won’t live that life again."

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"Ill, but that'd be too real for TV
It's crazy when you're too real to be free
If you ain't got no paper then steal this CD
Listen man, I'll let you know how it feel to be me, it don't feel."

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"I'm in the eye of the storm, where the pressure's on
And MC's is dressed funny like a leprechuan
I chop rappers up like chicken seczuan
Sells a squads off like a slave auction."

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"Allured by the lust, something money can't cure
The Devil want me as is, but God he want more."

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"Yeah speaking of pieces of a man
Staring at a future in the creases of my hand
It reads like a final letter I’m leaving for my fam but
It’s written in language they will never understand."

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"If I can't trust you
Then I might touch you
If I ain't got love for you
Then fuck you !"

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"I proceed, as I give ya whatcha need
Like I'm a medical doctor, watch the damage
I inflict properly, ain't nobody risin on top of me
I be droppin more plot in my mic monopoly."

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"We truly only got respect for a few, y'all ain't sayin' nuttin' new."

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"Tears in your eyes like this moment is sentimental
Your fundamentally floored, philosophically bored
Disturbed like the eighth floor of your hospital ward."

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"Once you’ve had the best better ain’t as good."

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"One love, one game, one desire
One flame, one bonfire, let it burn higher
I never show signs of fatigue or turn tired
'cause I'm the definition of tragedy turned triumph."

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"Hey yo, I'm just a lyricist, a chemist of the hemp
The beat pimp, the ill Philly resident
That's far from hesitant, corrupt like a President
Never benevolent but poetically prevalent."

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"If you were worried 'bout where
I been or who I saw or
What club I went to with my homies
Baby don't worry you know that you got me.

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" Should it say hello or should it say goodbye
Try to understand how smart and how hood am I
It don't matter though
Until we learn that the world don't turn right
We all oughta the scatter though."

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" Voted unlikely to succeed cause my class was full of naysayers, cheaters and thieves. All it gave me was a good enough reason to leave and put the writing on the wall for y'all to read it and weep."

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"Hip-Hop ain't dead 'cause the pulse is in us
I got the Everclear flow, they mimosa with it
We are the hope of the culture, they supposed to listen
And I'm supposed to pivot like I'm a forward in the league."

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"MC's who slept for days, must be swept away."

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"I don't ask for much, but enough room to spread my wings
And the world finna know my name."