Universe At War - The Roots/Common.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Leonard Hubbard/Black Thought
[00:01.942][Intro: Common & Black Thought]
[00:06.126]When you and I verse at war, mother****er
[00:10.396]We gonna do this Chi-town style (verse at war)
[00:12.181]Illadelph, you know how we get down
[00:14.274]You know the business
[00:15.776]Illadelph, Illinois
[00:16.376]Bringin' it straight to your chest
[00:17.011]Comin' thru with the ill convoy
[00:18.016]Yes, sir, hah!
[00:19.268]Lieutenant with the Com'
[00:20.537]Yeah, break it down, one-two
[00:21.564]We about to drop the bomb, check it!
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[00:22.900]Hook x2: Black Thought
[00:23.390]When you & I verse at war
[00:25.146]And your verse at core for what you thought before
[00:27.654]Steppin' up into a zone you should never explore
[00:30.166]The next step or level of the whole concept or
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[00:37.196][Verse 1: Common]
[00:44.475]Rappers, get on the mic talkin' about cars and clothes
[00:47.485]Soundin' like hoes
[00:48.991]Ain't been exposed to the foes, the most disciples
[00:51.865]I'm from the state that is Ill
[00:53.369]The rap son of man rotated down to Phil'
[00:55.972]To say what I feel, get it off my bird chest, my word becomes flesh
[00:59.737]War, goin' on between the West and the East
[01:02.266]Of the lands, n****s don't own a piece
[01:04.529]Grease is the word, Murray slides some pimp oil to me
[01:07.792]My lady friend sneaks my beer in the movie
[01:10.050]Throw your hands in the air, if you the true and livin'
[01:12.817]Beware — The New World Order, the devil's new religion
[01:15.439]Sent my homie to the number two division
[01:17.706]Sellin' bootlegged movies, got my VCR on a oove' smoove'
[01:21.219]Be at Fat Tuesday's, drinkin' tropical and just sittin'
[01:23.980]At a table with sophisticated b*****s
[01:25.991]Nah, that ain't nothin' I would call my mother
[01:28.800]Nor do I call every n***a my brother
[01:31.308]Gotta have Black Thought, it sorta B like Malik
[01:33.813]So, don't Question a Brother, to The Roots, I get deep
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[01:35.819][Verse 2: Black Thought]
[01:36.069]Yo! Enter the last era
[01:37.571]Your scholarship into the world of politics and mascara
[01:40.581]We operate within this artificial op-era
[01:43.092]I bring hip-hop terror like the Führer
[01:45.103]The Ace Ventura into the horror
[01:46.864]Laboratory labor-er, venture beyond the border
[01:49.430]I'll struc-ture a style, destroy your whole aura
[01:51.964]Plus, your a-drenalin'll rise before your eyes
[01:54.500]Immortalize my image in the skies
[01:56.777]Deceive the devil in disguise
[01:58.533]My music I parenthesize, represent the wise
[02:01.105]Through this be how we enterprise
[02:02.608]Kid, no compromise (Yeah, yeah)
[02:03.611]I'm thinkin' fast like Rama-dan, I wear your mind away like Alzheimer
[02:07.647]I pull a mic up out my mama, big up to Bahama-dia
[02:10.448]A-yo, this year we leavin' 'em in trauma
[02:12.461]Then after me, I plan to leave behind the legacy
[02:15.481]Or history of the family — the Fifth Dynasty
[02:18.064]For humanity to bear witness to this Del-Val' sylla-ble stylist
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[02:22.843]You know the time, kid
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[02:24.172]Hook x2: Black Thought
[02:24.424]When you & I verse at war
[02:25.434]And your verse at core for what you thought before
[02:27.951]Steppin' up into a zone you should never explore
[02:30.534]The next step or level of the whole concept or
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[02:39.099][Verse 3: Black Thought]
[02:44.244]Yo, the general flows, kids compose on tablets
[02:47.271]Expose how they was average and they thoughts not rapid
[02:49.783]Here comes the hot package through your block like traffic
[02:52.224]The rock was type graphic, now watch the mic blast it
[02:55.253]Shootin' at the stars with emphatic rap static
[02:57.511]See the mirror shatter from thoughts, I'm bustin' back at it
[03:00.273]The Lieuten-ant, the eleph-ant, sippin' automatic
[03:02.801]Mic rippin' Asiatic, architects out to have it
[03:05.612]The turn of the century
[03:06.615]The planet's like a penitentiary exaggerated
[03:09.669]N****s is livin' highly medicated
[03:11.425]I Used To Love H.E.R., now she violated
[03:13.462]Hip-hop holocausts and camps, old champs are concentrated
[03:16.737]They outdated and incarcerated
[03:18.502]Loved and appreciated, hated and very debated
[03:21.272]For every career created, one's eliminated
[03:24.035]And that's the way the balance of Yin and Yang is related, for real!
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[03:25.792][Verse 4: Common]
[03:25.820]Every block is divine, n****s swing on in a safari
[03:29.102]Wild n****s, like I'm high on latari
[03:31.376]Some let the block block they mind, if they could see what I see
[03:34.136]Get out the city for a sec, be at the places I be
[03:36.897]Hey! I'mma be back on the deck
[03:38.749]Openin' businesses in places, for you to cash yo' check
[03:42.036]My neck of the woods ain't all good, ain't all bad
[03:44.815]You can live in the 'burbs, and still get had!
[03:47.072]The sad part about it — n****s had houses on the lake
[03:50.162]They tryin' to move us out, the land we ain't appreciate
[03:52.763]For peace we skate, crackers be rollerbladin' on hate
[03:55.555]Call each other "Cuz" 'cause of how we relate
[03:57.811]I seen weight turn into Cadillacs with dopeman plates
[04:00.571]Through the wind and blow-ups is how n****s communicate
[04:03.081]Harmonizin' through beepers and reefer
[04:05.343]The city got my peoples in a sleeper, talk is gettin' cheaper
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[04:08.000]Hook x4: Black Thought
[04:08.226]When you & I verse at war
[04:10.309]And your verse at core for what you thought before
[04:12.846]Steppin' up into a zone you should never explore
[04:15.353]The next step or level of the whole concept or