75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)-The Roots

[00:29.610]I'm from the land of them straight razor face beard niggas [00:31.909]With hammers on their waist, yeah, waste rare niggas [00:34.208]And I race scared niggas, them snake head niggas [00:36.219]That take care of niggas who don't break bread with us [00:38.466]Niggas make dead niggas and hate black niggas [00:40.869]Brown niggas hide yellow niggas and them red niggas [00:42.985]No telling when the bullet coming, be prepared niggas [00:45.101]Cuz when it do, it coming land sea and air niggas [00:47.347]That's everywhere niggas, Am I the mutha****ing legendary? [00:50.116]Yeah niggas, make it very clear niggas [00:52.023]Been looking at y'all in my rearview [00:53.486]Mirror niggas want to be a millionaire, I'm already there niggas [00:56.386]I'm a debonaire nigga, a bear taking more than my share [00:58.946]Lookee here, yeah, I know it ain't fair nigga [01:00.983]Neither is a bald eagle with a hair trigger [01:03.282]Haystack, try and find a needle up in there nigga [01:05.581]Leave you up in there nigga, show me the puppet [01:07.488]That don't need a puppeteer nigga, shed another tear nigga [01:09.891]I'm in the field with a shield and a spear nigga [01:12.216]I'm in your girl with her heels in the air nigga [01:14.332]I am such a fair nigga, you in a battle telling [01:16.631]Me you not ready like you figured I'ma bear with you [01:18.903]I don't care nigga, you now listening to the sounds [01:21.333]Of the money making jam trillionaires nigga [01:23.370]Gentlemen of an extraordinary league [01:25.277]You never see me blowing on no ordinary weed [01:27.471]What I'm smoking ain't a product of no ordinary seed [01:29.509]Your boy is heavy treed, I'm feeling merry [01:31.625]As a Tyler Perry scene, that monetary gang green [01:34.054]We tried to launder the cash and never came clean [01:36.405]So now I'm in the story with all the cats before me [01:38.573]And smoke purgatory for doing the same thing [01:40.689]And them niggas ain't change, them niggas can't change [01:42.988]Their moms shake their heads saying it's such a dang shame [01:45.365]The train to the buck, then another dang plane [01:47.377]My stage and my government ain't the same name [01:49.676]I'm a rock star, love it that my wallet chain hang [01:52.027]I'm a modern day saint; I'm a modern day king [01:54.221]My definition I can finally explain [01:56.389]Cold smooth like that dud Sean Connery was playing [01:58.662]I just got to be the man, I'm the father figure and [02:00.778]When I spit it's something like a psychology exam [02:03.076]If you stand where I stood, you could probably understand [02:05.166]How that mic feeling like a million dollars in my hand [02:07.465]It's the silence of the lamb, go and cop another gram [02:09.685]And twist with your xanny, percoset, percodan [02:11.906]What's your net working plan? You better look alive [02:14.100]Cuz them niggas outside looking desperate again nigga [02:16.660]And the blunts and liquor killing our lungs and liver [02:18.933]The asthmatic drug addict I function with it [02:21.179]I put a rapper in a hole where the dust will sit [02:23.295]for spitting played out patterns that once was hitting [02:25.751]I got news for you all, let me show you how to ball [02:27.971]See the legendary fall? I ain't heard of that [02:30.061]Y'all niggas is off the wall like Aresnio Hall [02:32.333]I'ma put you right back where the dirt is at [02:34.632]450 fahrenheit on the thermostat [02:36.748]Somebody talking like a white girl Bernadette [02:39.047]But she not a earner yet, she couldn't put in no work, [02:41.320]not earning that, the black microphone murder vet [02:43.932]I'm in a class of my own, [02:45.133]If I got beef with you, you the last one to know [02:47.667]I arrive on time, I'm never fashionable [02:49.809]You late, I'm already international-able [02:52.056]I done toured to Berlin, banged in Beijing [02:54.172]You never seen nothing can't say the same thing [02:56.575]Tell somebody Black Thought, yeah you know the name ring [02:58.717]So give him the game ring for bringing what them niggas can't bring [03:01.747]My hustle is long, my muscle is strong [03:03.315]My man put the paper in the duffle I'm gone [03:05.222]Y'all still a light year from the level I'm on [03:07.599]Just a pawn stepping right into the head of the storm [03:09.767]You been warned, I will blow y'all niggas and disintegrate [03:12.170]I'm a rebel, renegade must stay paid