The Roots Follow

I remain calm, lyrically I got the bomb

when you put me on, I remain calm

[repeat 4X]

[Malik B]

It's the 'I remain calm' but for jurge to erk

Come out my humble go berzerk and make you swallow your smirk

I splurge most and bash, capacitate mass

I fascinate as I assassinate and show task

Characters and egos, get crushed in trust

And my words stampede like herds in a dusk

Cream of all crops, topics I drop ?

When heated up, I gets hotter cause I'm proper

You never knew the levitude the clever few

Different tax for revenue man if you ever knew

the tac-tic, strategies, of word, ca-pa-bil-ities

Display, de-cease

the rhythm, and man how it swerved and curved

Made a niggaz dream but his hope deferred then stirred

Dig the mentals, Papermate, Bic's and Number 2 pencils

My credentials blow on instrumentals

I write an anthem throw a tantrum and remain handsome

Mysterious vibes, like I was the phantom

Erupt abruptly, then conduct amaze

You're fucked when the lyrics get bucked because I graze

Never animosity, on my property

Niggaz acropoly, or they feel extreme monstrosity

Wreakin leak out the verbals ? don't forget it

The chief of edit then Malik'll shred it yeah I said it

I remain calm, lyrically I got the bomb

when you put me on, I remain calm

[repeat 4X]

[Black Thought]

That nigga Thought flows like a river I deliver

styles like Domino's, eyes closed I inhale

equality follow me now son

Listen my divisions advance I surpass one half the rap mass

the other half, want my autograph, because I got

soul plus a ghetto stroll similar to Shaft

It's the mic rapers, splittin Phillies in the cellar

My rated X, larynx, wrecks your context

I'm complex, confusin, lyrically amusin, I drink brews

then when I'm groovin I'm no longer human

I'd like to take this time to give a shout to all the money makers

in the house galore they help me turn it out

I whip the cap to the max, I'm laid back, like your gramps

I make, niggaz embarrased like they spendin food stamps

I take, my time when I rhyme lovely, me nah like

ugly like, God we get odd to the rhythms

Rappers thinkin of steppin up, what the fuck you're doin?

I amplify the hymn to bring your empire to ruin

Who's your girl screwin fellas? Jealous because I'm fly

Keep my sneakers dry, when you cry-baby

See I can have you headin for the border like a ReFugee from Haiti

Aiyyo, this brother drivin my cab, tried to flip, saying

"Pay me in advance" -- I asked him if he ever danced

in the dark, with the rap devil, Black Thought

See niggaz who get caught off guard remain scarred

into air, with headphones remainin on the domes, they hair

I resound and astound and scare, I reign terror

into another nigga rap era, my rhymes sedate

I lubricate, like aloe vera

I'm extreme, restin in the land of the plot and the scheme

Peace to ? Rock and the Equal Team

I remain calm, lyrically I got the bomb

when you put me on, I remain calm

[repeat 12X]