(Black Thought) Yeah This is the public service announcement From the legendary Roots crew And J. Period This is the official best of the Roots Def Jam Records, let's go [Verse 1] Son of a Tommy gun Of Black Islamic number one And shooting up your movie with an Uzi that weighs a ton A Villain you rooting for The Roots Crew before I'm like a battering ram, smash through your door Here come the black star, rock star, super star I'm puffing a fresh Cuban, [?][?][?][?][?] Y'all motherf***ing frauds
When the [?][?][?][?] The main reason I'm here, to knock rumors off Firstly No controversy We da' livest And nobody on top and no one's beside us Though I'm usually modest What I'm being is honest Yo, when Thought is spitting son, you could see he's [?] Got a lot of MC's trying to be primadonnas I look at y'all rappers, all I see are va-{Hey} Any one got something in their chest or on their mind, cause The roots crew from Philly, you know where to find us