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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Roots
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ahmir Thompson
Composer
Unknown Writer
Composer
Smart Abdul-Basit
Composer
Leonard Hubbard
Composer
Scott Storch
Composer
Tariq Trotter
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
The Grand Negaz
Producer
AJ Shine
Co-Producer
Richard Nichols
Mixing Engineer
Bob Power
Mixing Engineer
Ahmir Thompson
Mixing Engineer
George Spatta
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Steve Howard
Assistant Mixing Engineer
David Ivory
Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
One, two
Yes, The Roots layin' back, relaxin'
Coolin' out with my man, Malik B
We call him Sla-xon
You know what I'm sayin'?
We in effect
Mode like Al B. Sure
For your pleasure
[Verse 2]
Ayo, bust it
We about to flip it on some ol' laid back
Mellow my man tip
We gon' set it like this
Yo, check it
Bust it, la dee da dee
Who likes to party?
Like Slick Rick the Ruler
I'm cooler than a ice brick
Got soul like those afro picks
With the black fist
And leave a crowd trippin' like John the Baptist
If the cause of that, oh, shit
The skits I kick flows like catfish
And got many emcees on the blacklist
I'm sharp as a cactus, plus
Quick to bust gymnastic tactics
Us, Roots is really true to that rap shit
[Verse 3]
Now holla to the scholarly
Street scats that follow me
Back to the Soul Shack
With packs of rap colonies
Max that
Foreign objects is mad abstract
Make Shadrach offender
Wanna go like Meshach flack
Thought the nappy cat a bookworm
Shoot styles like sperm
Cool as Malcolm Little with a conk
A la perm burn
The herb sticks like wicks
And flips when I slaps the hand
Of my mellow my man, Malik B
[Verse 4]
Here I goes
**** best to know the flower
The professional
Best in those skills that kills so
Whoa, slow down before you go down
Sissy, this is Agatha Christie
You're slain and known now
[Verse 5]
Next contender
Malik's the ax offender
Critique me, so uniquely
With mystique that's so deep within the
Microphones, I grip
Psych with poems, so I slits throats
Put him in a quote
When he croaks
[Verse 6]
They sayin' isn't it
Is it the **** that did it?
'Cause wreck with the TEC
Make you jump and say ribbit
I exhibit many forms
Prohibit the corny norms
And we're in your neighborhood
[Verse 7]
Or the norms
Capture was to, wack ya
Manufacture
You can even ask Anita
About the rapture
I figured, perhaps ya
I say it, slam
For my mellow my man
[Verse 8]
The way we do it like this
That, for my mellow my man
It's like that for my mellow my man
No, no, we do it like that
This, for my mellow my man
It's like this for my mellow my man
No, no, we do it like this
That, for my mellow my man
It's like that for my mellow my man
No, no, we do it like that
This, for my mellow my man
It's like this for my mellow my man
[Verse 9]
Yo
I got spunk, plus funk
And jump like punks
To get beat down
Turn that heat down
I'm crazy cool
Deeper than the pool
That Wilt the Stilt damn near drowned in
Clowns bounce to sound
When thought pound and bounce
My complexion section
Southern and my brother is Jex, I
Sweats no sex
'Cause this kid gets
Grits and shit
It's flex to drains that was crazed
When your heart spit up
Dip dup damn
[Verse 10]
Yo, I lost it but back is the Black Boogey Man
Manic mad musician
Maker of noise
That's jocked by your homeboys
I rocks my flocks of sheep
It's the slickest shepherd around
I was lost, but was found
Now I gets down
From Philly to the Apple
I stop and holla tunes
And then hit up
Town, diggin' planets
When they get earthbound
I kick the groovy tunes
For you and yours
When I pass the can
To my mellow my man, Malik B
[Verse 11]
Whoa, shucks
My nuc snuff ducks (Uh-huh)
Abruptly, I erupt
To destruct, deduct
In wax, I like to smack 'em
Stroke 'em as I cap 'em
Change my name to Saran or Reynolds
Then I wrap 'em
Negroes know we refer-oh to my borough
'Cause my ass is so thorough
Like Levert Gerald
Too strong to be sterile
So I impregnate the greats (Say what?)
Bust the Pacino's, I won't trust them
Even though I lust them shapes
Females for retail prices
Twice this nice with sugar and spices
I won't smirk, 'cause my name's (You're not) Not Urkel
The voice with the multiple choice
She does a circle
[Verse 12]
You wanna turn a page and ride?
And try to plagerize
But I degrade ya
Slaughtered ya, and slayed ya
Microphones, I grip
Equipped to flip the hypocrites
And nit-wits, with tidbit skits
That ain't sh**
It was a curse, but I divide it in half
Gets the airplay
No fair play
You're feelin' the wrath
Of Malik, ayo, the tragic
**** that get dramatic
Because I have the habit
To smoke rabbits like an addict
So if you cannot rap I will just slap you
If you wants to pick up on your nose be sure the chrome
And then we cap you
It's too bad, them can't understand the true check for my mellow my man
[Verse 13]
The way we do it like this
That, for my mellow my man
It's like that for my mellow my man
No, no, we do it like that
This, for my mellow my man
It's like this for my mellow my man
No, no, we do it like this
That, for my mellow my man
It's like that for my mellow my man
No, no, we do it like that
This, for my mellow my man
It's like this for my mellow my man
[Verse 14]
I think it's for my mellow my man, uh
My mellow my man, right
My mellow my man, uh
My mellow my man, right
My mellow my man, uh
My mellow my man, right
My mellow my man, my mellow my man
My mellow my man, my mellow my man
For Scott Storch, my mellow my man
Leonard Hubbard on the bass, my mellow my man
Brother question on the drums, my mellow my man
Gotta end it on the one, my mellow my man, check it
Written by: Ahmir Thompson, Leonard Hubbard, Scott Storch, Smart Abdul-Basit, Tariq Trotter, Unknown Writer