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The Roots - The Seed (2.0)
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The Roots - You Got Me
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The Roots - What They Do
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The Roots - The Fire (feat. John Legend)
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The Roots - Guns Are Drawn
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The Roots - How I Got Over
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The Roots - Here I Come
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The Roots - Break You Off
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The Roots - The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History)
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The Roots - Ain't Sayin' Nothing New
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The Roots - Clock With No Hands
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The Roots - Dear God 2.0
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The Roots - Doin' It Again
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The Roots - It Just Don't Stop
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The Roots - Lazy Afternoon
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The Roots - Long Time
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The Roots - Lost Desire
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The Roots - Mellow My Man
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The Roots - Panic!!!!!
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The Roots - Proceed
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The Roots - Proceed III
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The Roots - Pussy Galore
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The Roots - Star / Pointro
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The Roots - Step Into The Relm
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The Roots - Tao of the Machine
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The Roots - The Other Side
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The Roots - 100 Dundee
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The Roots - 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction)
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The Roots - Act Fore The End
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The Roots - Act Too The Love Of My Life
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The Roots - Act Won.. Things Fall
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The Roots - Adrenaline!
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The Roots - Atonement
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The Roots - Baby
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The Roots - Birthday Girl
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The Roots - Boom!
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The Roots - Can't Stop This
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The Roots - Champion
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The Roots - Clones
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The Roots - Common Dust
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The Roots - Complexity
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The Roots - Concerto of the Desperado
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The Roots - Criminal
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The Roots - Datskat
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The Roots - Diedre Vs Dice
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The Roots - Diedre Vs. Dice
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The Roots - Distortion to Static
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The Roots - Do You Want More
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The Roots - Don't Feel Right
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The Roots - Don't Say Nuthin'
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The Roots - Don't See Us
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The Roots - Double Trouble
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The Roots - Duck Down!
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The Roots - Dynamite
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The Roots - Episodes
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The Roots - False Media - The Roots
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The Roots - For The Love Of Money
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The Roots - Game Theory - Malik B.
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The Roots - Get Busy
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The Roots - Glitches
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The Roots - Good Music
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The Roots - Good Music (Preclude)
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The Roots - Grits
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The Roots - I Can't Help It
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The Roots - I Don't Care
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The Roots - I Remain Calm
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The Roots - I Remember
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The Roots - I Will Not Apologize
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The Roots - I'm Out Deah
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The Roots - In The Music
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The Roots - It's About That Time
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The Roots - It's All About You (Not About Me)
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The Roots - Ital
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The Roots - Kool On (feat. P.o.r.n.)
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The Roots - Leonard I-V
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The Roots - Lighthouse
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The Roots - Livin' In a New World
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The Roots - Make My (feat. Dice Raw)
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The Roots - Meiso
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The Roots - Melting Pot (Bonus Track)
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The Roots - Mumia 911 (Diamond D Remix)
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The Roots - Never (feat. Patty Crash)
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The Roots - No Alibi
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The Roots - No Great Pretender
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The Roots - Now or Never
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The Roots - One Time (feat. Dice Raw)
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The Roots - Pass the Popcorn
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The Roots - Peace
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The Roots - Proceed II
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The Roots - Proceed IV (A. J. Shine's Proceed W/O A Pause)
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The Roots - Proceed V
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The Roots - Push Up Ya Lighter
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The Roots - Quills
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The Roots - Radio Daze
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The Roots - Respond React
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The Roots - Rhymes And Ammo
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The Roots - Rising Down
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The Roots - Rising Up
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The Roots - Rock You
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The Roots - Rolling With Heat
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The Roots - Roots And Aphillyation Unreleased
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The Roots - Sacrifice
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The Roots - Section
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The Roots - Silent Treatment
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The Roots - Singing Man
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The Roots - Sleep
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The Roots - Somebody's Got To Do It
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The Roots - Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)
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The Roots - Stay Cool
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The Roots - Stomp
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The Roots - Swept Away
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The Roots - Table Of Contents (Part 1 & 2)
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The Roots - Table Of Contents (Part 3)
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The Roots - Take It There - Wadud Ahmad
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The Roots - The 'Notic
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The Roots - The Adventures in Wonderland
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The Roots - The Anti-Circle
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The Roots - The Day
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The Roots - The Good The Bad and the Desolate
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The Roots - The Grand Return
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The Roots - The Hypnotic
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The Roots - The Lesson Part 1
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The Roots - The Next Movement
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The Roots - The Return To Innocence Lost
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The Roots - The Roots Is Comin
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The Roots - The Show
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The Roots - The Spark
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The Roots - The Ultimate
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The Roots - The Unlocking
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The Roots - Thought @ Work
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The Roots - Tip The Scale
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The Roots - U.N.I.Verse at War
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The Roots - Unwritten
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The Roots - Walk Alone
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The Roots - Water
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The Roots - Web
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The Roots - Web 20-20
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The Roots - What Goes On Part 7
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The Roots - What You Want
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The Roots - When The People Cheer
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The Roots - Who Tells Your Story (feat. Common & Ingrid Michaelson)
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The Roots - Why (What's Going On?)
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The Roots - Without A Doubt
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The Roots - Writters Block
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The Roots - Ya'All Know Who
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The Roots - You Ain't Fly
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The Roots - You Don't See Us
Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)
The Roots
Something in the way of things
Something that will quit and won't start
Something you know but can't stand
Can't know get along with
Like death
Riding on top of the car peering through the windshield for his cue
Something entirely fictitious and true
That creeps across your path hallowing your evil ways
Like they were yourself passing yourself not smiling
The dead guy you saw me talking to is your boss
I tried to put a spell on him but his spirit is illiterate
I know things you know and nothing you don't know
'cept I saw something in the way of things
Something grinning at me and I wanted to know, was it funny?
Was it so funny it followed me down the street
Greeting everybody like the good humor man
But an they got the taste of good humor but no ice cream
It was like dat
Me talking across people into the houses
And not seeing the beings crowding around me with ice picks
You could see them
But they looked like important Negroes on the way to your funeral
Looked like important jiggaboos on the way to your auction
And let them chant the number and use an ivory pointer to count your teeth
Remember Steppen Fetchit
Remember Steppen Fetchit how we laughed
An all your Sunday school images giving flesh and giggling
With the ice pick high off his head
Made ya laugh anyway
I can see something in the way of our selves
I can see something in the way of our selves
That's why I say the things I do, you know it
But its something else to you
Like that job
This morning when you got there and it was quiet
And the machines were yearning soft behind you
Yearning for that nigga to come and give up his life
Standin' there bein' dissed and broke and troubled
My mistake is I kept sayin' "that was proof that God didn't exist"
And you told me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do"
But still, its like I see something I hear things
I saw words in the white boy's lying rag
said he was gonna die poor and frustrated
That them dreams walk which you 'cross town
S'gonna die from over work
There's garbage on the street that's tellin' you you ain't shit
And you almost believe it
Broke and mistaken all the time
You know some of the words but they ain't the right ones
Your cable back on but ain't nothin' you can see
But I see something in the way of things
Something to make us stumble
Something get us drunk from noise and addicted to sadness
I see something and feel something stalking us
Like and ugly thing floating at our back calling us names
You see it and hear it too
But you say it got a right to exist just like you and if God made it
But then we got to argue
And the light gon' come down around us
Even though we remember where the (light or mic) is
Remember the Negro squinting at us through the cage
You seen what I see too?
The smile that ain't a smile but teeth flying against our necks
You see something too but can't call its name
Ain't it too bad y'all said
Ain't it too bad, such a nice boy always kind to his motha
Always say good morning to everybody on his way to work
But that last time before he got locked up and hurt, real bad
I seen him walkin' toward his house and he wasn't smiling
And he didn't even say hello
But I knew he'd seen something
Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in will
And he kept marching faster and faster away from us
And never even muttered a word
Then the next day he was gone
You wanna know what
You wanna know what I'm talkin' about
Sayin' "I seen something in the way of things"
And how the boys face looked that day just before they took him away
The is? in that face and remember now, remember all them other faces
And all the many places you've seen him or the sister with his child
Wandering up the street
Remember what you seen in your own mirror and didn't for a second recognize
The face, your own face
Straining to get out from behind the glass
Open your mouth like you was gon' say somethin'
Close your eyes and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like
Now, don't you see something else
Something cold and ugly
Not invisible but blended with the shadow criss-crossing the old man
Squatting by the drug store at the corner
With is head resting uneasily on his folded arms
And the boy that smiled and the girl he went with
And in my eyes too
A waving craziness splitting them into the jet stream of a black bird
Wit his ass on fire
Or the solomNOTness of where we go to know we gonna be happy
I seen something
I SEEN something
And you seen it too
You seen it too
You just can't call it's name name name name name name name