The Roots, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Jazzyfatnastees - The Next Movement(1999)

[00:03.42] C'mon. and yes y'all
[00:06.37] You are now in tune to the sounds.
[00:09.19] Of the legendary. foundation
[00:10.60] Yeah, you go
[00:19.71] Hey you listeners, stop what you're doin and
[00:21.22] Set it in motion, it's the next movement
[00:23.22] You listeners, stop what you're doin and
[00:25.80] Set it in motion, it's the next movement
[00:28.39] Word up, we got the HOT-HOT music, The HOT MUSIC
[00:30.76] The HOT-HOT music, the HOT music
[00:38.36] Yo, one, two, one-two one-two
[00:40.54] That's how we usually start, once again it's the Thought
[00:43.11] The Dalai Lama of the mic, the prime minister Thought
[00:45.67] This directed to whoever in listening range
[00:48.11] Yo the whole state of things in the world bout to change
[00:50.62] Black rain fallin from the sky look strange
[00:53.64] The ghetto is red hot, we steppin on flames
[00:56.14] Yo, it's inflation on the price for fame
[00:58.51] And it was all the same, but then the antidote came
[01:01.05] The Black Thought, ill syllablist, out the Fifth
[01:03.68] This heavyweight rap shit I'm about to lift
[01:06.13] LIKE, a phyllum lift up it's seed to sunlight
[01:08.66] I plug in the mic, draw like a gunfight
[01:11.06] I never use a cordless, or stand applaudless
[01:13.69] Sippin cholorophyll out of ill silver goblets
[01:16.32] I'm like a faucet, monopoly's the object
[01:18.86] There ain't no way to cut this tap, you got ta get wet
[01:21.47] Your head is throbbin and I ain't said shit yet
[01:23.95] The Roots crew, the next movement, c'mon!
[01:26.76] And yes y'all
[01:31.20] You are now in tune to the sounds
[01:34.27] Of the legendary, foundation, check it out, uh
[01:41.43] Testin, yo, you go
[01:44.00] Hey you listeners, stop what you're doin and
[01:44.97] Set it in motion, it's the next movement
[01:47.15] You listeners, stop what you're doin and
[01:49.22] Set it in motion, it's the next movement
[01:51.40] Word up, we got the HOT-HOT music, the HOT music
[01:53.95] The HOT-HOT music, the HOT music
[02:01.71] Word up, the formation of words to fit
[02:04.07] That's what I usually disturb you with
[02:06.01] A lot of rappers never heard of this, or know half the time it is
[02:07.96] You doubt the Illa-Fifth, what could you accomplish?
[02:11.88] Whether they skywriting your name, or you anonymous
[02:14.79] You be speechless, with stinging sinuses
[02:17.07] The Roots royal highnesses through your monitors
[02:19.40] I tilt my crown, then blow down a diamond kiss
[02:22.13] You need to buy a CD and stop rewindin this
[02:24.51] I'm the finalist, shinin like a rugged amethyst
[02:26.82] And at your music conference, I'm the panelist
[02:29.38] Listen close to my poetry, I examine this
[02:32.00] Like an analyst, to see if you can handle this
[02:34.55] Check it out
[02:35.76] You, got the groove, emcees
[02:39.46] Freeze, stand still, nobody move
[02:40.95] Unless you dealin with The Next Movement
[02:44.58] The P-Phi-D we be the mon-u-ment
[02:45.62] I live my life nice, but I'm not too bent
[02:47.62] You theatrical as a Broadway play, this ain't Rent
[02:49.83] One hundred percent, straight out the Basement
[02:52.28] Spreading this across a planet on some next shit
[02:54.63] How many people feelin this love music? C'mon
[02:57.60] Yo, you go
[03:06.22] Hey you listeners, stop what you're doin and
[03:07.43] Set it in motion, it's the next movement
[03:10.08] You listeners, stop what you're doin and
[03:12.77] Set it in motion, it's the next movement
[03:15.15] Yo, we got the HOT-HOT music, the HOT music
[03:17.29] The HOT-HOT music, the HOT music
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