["Malik B get on the mic, yo, there's too much on my mind","Johnny on the spot, got the rhythm and the rhyme","Jeff X can rock the mic with tooth decay","I wake up early in the morning, I mean early afternoon","And continue to rock the mic","With records from 125th to Japan","Word is perfect, never ever shall you misinterpret","That nigga represented on the 28th of June","(Who me?)","Fuckin' with The Roots you know them niggaz is the dime","Used to make plots against the herringbone herb","But now, all I do disperse the verb","","Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?","I shall, proceed","Just think, what? What if you could, just blink, what?","Because I'm on a paper chase, yes, I'm on a paper chase","I laid them play like Johnny Hathaway","'Til the train stop then a nigga hop","I got my contract in 1993 and I shall proceed","Malik get on the mic, there's too much on my mind","And continue to rock the mic","","And continue to rock the mic","At the block party everybody jocked","Used to do the pop dance to the planet rock","I move styles like bowels so now you know I'm worth it","So you know I got the sheen in my gleam","(Say what?)","I can Metallica and Guns 'N Roses crash","Your lady tried to kick it, but I couldn't play my man","I shall, proceed","My niggaz is my niggaz ya see, she didn't understand","I be the 5 foot 7, residing at the mecca lesson south section","","Used to smash crash parties like I was disturbed","I shall, proceed","Just think, what if you could just, just blink yourself away?","It's the MC sucka niggaz envy","I can make Conan and the Titans clash","I can make a whole lake of fish start to splash","Back in eighty-seven, easy with the chics I was a chocolate boy","I'm representing philly on the 28th of June","My Timberlands are fully laced I be the Mr. Boogeyman","And like a nerd I can make you say, \"He's superb\"","I can make a hundred yard line start to dash","","","Walking down the streets to the subway where I lay","I shake your hand and shit'll hit the fan, just think","I shall, proceed","","And shake a hand, shake a hand","","With my pistol in the face of hip hop, stick in your face","Used to cut class in the infinite pursuit of ass","And continue to rock the mic","Direct from Philly, the lands where niggas scheme","","I'm flyer when I'm higher put my shit up on a tomb","","I can make you feel that I'm a surreal cartoon","Just blink yourself away?","Break a lyrical hymn of the stem like boom","Raised in the cellar with the rhythm like Ella"]
Performed by: The Roots Written by: Smart Abdul-Basit; Tarik Collins; Leonard Hubbard; Scott Spencer Storch; Ahmir K Thompson
Credits: Abdul-Basit, Smart (Songwriter); Collins, Tarik (Songwriter); Hubbard, Leonard (Songwriter); Storch, Scott Spencer (Songwriter); Thompson, Ahmir K (Songwriter); GRAND NEGAZ MUSIC (Publisher); UNIVERSAL MUSIC - CAREERS (Publisher)
