Mellow My Man-The Roots

[00:00.000] 作词 : Questlove [00:00.125] 作曲 : Malik Abdul-Basit/unknown writer/Smart Abdul-Basit/Leonard Hubbard/Scott Storch/Ahmir Thompson/Tariq Trotter [00:00.251] One, two [00:01.411] Yes, The Roots layin' back, rela-xin' [00:04.292] Coolin' out with my man Malik B [00:06.558] We call him Sla-xon [00:08.213] YaknowhatI'msayin? We in effect [00:10.387] Mode like Al B. Sure, for your plea-sure [00:13.574] Aiyyo bust it [00:15.036] We about to flip it on some ol' laid back, mellow my man tip [00:18.040] We gon' set it like this [00:19.451] Yo check it [00:21.129] Bust it, La Di Da Di, who likes to party [00:24.405] Like Slick Rick the Ruler I'm cooler than a ice brick [00:27.017] Got soul like those Afro picks with the black fist [00:29.725] And leave a crowd drippin' like John the Baptist [00:32.249] It's the cause of that "Oh, shit!" [00:33.777] The skits I kick flows like catfish [00:35.710] And got many MC's on the blacklist [00:37.591] I'm sharp as a cactus, plus, quick to bust gymnastic tactics [00:40.435] Us, Roots is really true to that rap shit [00:42.978] Now, holla to the scholarly street skats that follow me [00:45.630] Back to the Soul Shack with packs of rap colonies [00:48.328] Max that, Foreign Objects is mad abstract, make Shadrach [00:51.619] Offender wanna go like Meshach, Black [00:53.658] Thought the nappy cat, a bookworm, shoot styles like sperm [00:56.297] Cool as Malcolm Little with conch a la perm burn [00:58.800] The herb sticks like wicks, and flips when I slaps the hand [01:01.879] Of my mellow my man, Malik B [01:03.712] Here I goes, negroes best to know the flower [01:06.766] The professional, best in those skills that kills so uhh.. [01:09.928] WHOA, slow down before you go down (sissy) [01:12.157] Sissy, this is Agatha Christie - you're slain and known now [01:14.659] Next contender, Malik's the axe offender [01:17.209] Critique me so uniquely with mystique that's so deep within the [01:19.966] Microphones I grip, psych with poems so's I slits throats [01:22.957] Put him in a quote, when he croaks [01:25.116] They sayin' -- isn't it, is it the negro that did it? [01:27.702] Cause wreck with the tech, make you jump and say 'ribbit' [01:30.273] I exhibit many forms, prohibit the corny norms [01:32.946] (And we're in, your neighborhood) on the norms [01:35.714] Capture, was to, whack ya [01:38.076] Manu-facture, you can even ask Anita about the, rap-ture [01:42.001] I figured, perhaps ya, a say it SLAM [01:44.111] For my mellow my man [01:45.420] The way we do it like this [01:46.999] That, for my mellow my man [01:48.757] It's like that for my mellow my man [01:50.574] No no we do it like that [01:52.161] This, for my mellow my man [01:53.928] It's like this for my mellow my man [01:55.842] No no we do it like this [01:57.423] That, for my mellow my man [01:59.166] It's like that for my mellow my man [02:01.220] No no we do it like that [02:02.681] This, for my mellow my man [02:04.409] It's like this for my mellow my man [02:06.604] Yo, I got spunk, plus funk And Jump Like Punks [02:09.899] To Get Beat Down, turn that heat down, I'm crazy cool [02:12.654] Deeper than the pool that Wilt the Stilt damn near drowned in [02:15.404] Clowns bounce to sound when Thoughts poundin', brown's [02:17.825] My complexion, section Southern [02:19.300] My brother-in is Jex, I [02:20.637] Sweats no sex, 'cause this kid gets [02:22.464] Grits 'n shit, it's flex to drains that was crazed [02:24.609] When your heart spit up, dip, dup, damn [02:26.437] Yo, I lost it but back is the Black Boogey Man [02:29.154] Manic mad musician, maker of noise [02:31.294] That's jocked by your homeboys [02:32.682] I rocks my flocks of sheep, it's the slickest shepherd around [02:35.492] I was lost but was found, now I gets down [02:37.833] From Philly to the Apple I, stop and holla tunes and then hit [02:40.689] Up-town, Diggin Planets when they get Earthbound [02:43.066] I kick the groovy tunes for you and yours, when I pass the can [02:46.051] To my mellow my man, Malik B [02:48.138] WHOAHHHHH, shucks, my nuc snuff ducks (uh-huh) [02:50.855] Abruptly I erupt, to destruct, deducts [02:53.204] In wax I like to smack em, stroke em as I cap 'em [02:56.051] Change my name to Saran or Reynolds then I Wrap 'em [02:58.592] Negroes know we be furrow to my borough [03:00.575] Cause my ass is so thorough, like Levert Gerald [03:03.256] Too strong to be sterile [03:04.530] So I impregnates the greats (Say what?) [03:06.562] Bust the Pacino's, I won't trust 'em [03:08.318] Even though I lust 'em shapes -- females for retail prices [03:11.478] Twice this nice as with sugars and spices [03:14.279] I won't smirk, 'cause my name's not Urkel [03:16.768] The voice with the multiple choice, she does a circle [03:19.232] You wanna turn and page your eyes, and try to plagerize [03:22.144] But I degrade ya, slaughtered ya and slayed ya [03:24.528] Microphones I grip equipped to flip the hypocrites [03:27.429]And nit-wits, with tidbit skits, that ain't shit [03:29.940] It was a curse, but I divide it in half [03:31.879] Gets the airplay, no fair play, you're feelin' the wrath [03:34.469] Of Malik, ayo get tragic, negroes that get dramatic [03:37.326] Because I have the habit to smoke rabbits like a addict [03:39.840] So if you can not rap, I will just slap YOU [03:41.968] If you wants to pick up on your nose be shows the chrome [03:44.333] And then we cap, YOU [03:45.403] It's too bad, dem cyan't understand de true check [03:48.161] For my mellow my man [03:49.434] The way we do it like this [03:51.153] That, for my mellow my man [03:52.801] It's like that for my mellow my man [03:54.708] No no we do it like that [03:56.288] This, for my mellow my man [03:58.007] It's like this for my mellow my man [03:59.908] No no we do it like this [04:01.585] That, for my mellow my man [04:03.250] It's like that for my mellow my man [04:05.181] No no we do it like that [04:06.805] This, for my mellow my man [04:08.447] It's like this for my mellow my man [04:10.581] I think it's for my mellow my man, uhh [04:12.239] My mellow my man, right [04:13.637] My mellow my man, uhh [04:14.927] My mellow my man, right [04:16.199] My mellow my man, uhh [04:17.590] My mellow my man, right [04:19.015] My mellow my man my mellow my man [04:20.313] My mellow my man my mellow my man [04:21.555] For Scott Storch, my mellow my man [04:23.583] Leonard Hubbard on the bass, my mellow my man [04:26.130] Brother ?uestion on the drums, my mellow my man [04:28.855] Gotta end it on the one, my mellow my man [04:31.255] Check it