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The Roots - The Seed (2.0)
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The Roots - You Got Me
- 3
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 - Birthday Girl
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The Roots - Dear God 2.0
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The Roots - Don't Say Nuthin'
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The Roots - Dynamite
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The Roots - Here I Come
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The Roots - The Next Movement
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The Roots - Ain't Sayin' Nothing New
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The Roots - Good Music
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The Roots - Grits
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The Roots - How I Got Over
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The Roots - Ital
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The Roots - Meiso
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The Roots - Rhymes And Ammo
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The Roots - Step Into The Relm
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The Roots - Swept Away
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The Roots - Tao of the Machine
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The Roots - The Session (Longest Posse Cut In History)
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The Roots - U.N.I.Verse at War
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The Roots - Writters Block
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The Roots - Act Too The Love Of My Life
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The Roots - Atonement
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The Roots - Baby
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The Roots - Boom!
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The Roots - Clock With No Hands
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The Roots - Clones
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The Roots - Concerto of the Desperado
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The Roots - For The Love Of Money
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The Roots - Get Busy
- 34
The Roots - Good Music (Preclude)
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The Roots - I Can't Help It
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The Roots - In The Music
- 37
The Roots - Mellow My Man
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The Roots - Melting Pot (Bonus Track)
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The Roots - No Great Pretender
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The Roots - Now or Never
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The Roots - Pass the Popcorn
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The Roots - Proceed III
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The Roots - Rising Up
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The Roots - Roots And Aphillyation Unreleased
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The Roots - Section
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The Roots - Somebody's Got To Do It
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The Roots - Star / Pointro
- 48
The Roots - Stay Cool
- 49
The Roots - The 'Notic
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The Roots - The Adventures in Wonderland
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The Roots - The Other Side
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The Roots - The Roots Is Comin
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The Roots - The Spark
- 54
The Roots - The Unlocking
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The Roots - Water
- 56
The Roots - Web 20-20
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The Roots - When The People Cheer
- 58
The Roots - Ya'All Know Who
- 59
The Roots - You Ain't Fly
- 60
The Roots - You Don't See Us
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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 Won.. Things Fall
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The Roots - Adrenaline!
- 66
The Roots - Break You Off
- 67
The Roots - Can't Stop This
- 68
The Roots - Champion
- 69
The Roots - Common Dust
- 70
The Roots - Complexity
- 71
The Roots - Criminal
- 72
The Roots - Datskat
- 73
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 - Doin' It Again
- 78
The Roots - Don't Feel Right
- 79
The Roots - Don't See Us
- 80
The Roots - Double Trouble
- 81
The Roots - Duck Down!
- 82
The Roots - Episodes
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The Roots - False Media - The Roots
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The Roots - Game Theory - Malik B.
- 85
The Roots - Glitches
- 86
The Roots - I Don't Care
- 87
The Roots - I Remain Calm
- 88
The Roots - I Remember
- 89
The Roots - I Will Not Apologize
- 90
The Roots - I'm Out Deah
- 91
The Roots - It Just Don't Stop
- 92
The Roots - It's About That Time
- 93
The Roots - It's All About You (Not About Me)
- 94
The Roots - Kool On (feat. P.o.r.n.)
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The Roots - Lazy Afternoon
- 96
The Roots - Leonard I-V
- 97
The Roots - Lighthouse
- 98
The Roots - Livin' In a New World
- 99
The Roots - Long Time
- 100
The Roots - Lost Desire
- 101
The Roots - Make My (feat. Dice Raw)
- 102
The Roots - Mumia 911 (Diamond D Remix)
- 103
The Roots - Never (feat. Patty Crash)
- 104
The Roots - No Alibi
- 105
The Roots - One Time (feat. Dice Raw)
- 106
The Roots - Panic!!!!!
- 107
The Roots - Peace
- 108
The Roots - Proceed
- 109
The Roots - Proceed II
- 110
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
- 113
The Roots - Pussy Galore
- 114
The Roots - Quills
- 115
The Roots - Radio Daze
- 116
The Roots - Respond React
- 117
The Roots - Rising Down
- 118
The Roots - Rock You
- 119
The Roots - Rolling With Heat
- 120
The Roots - Sacrifice
- 121
The Roots - Silent Treatment
- 122
The Roots - Singing Man
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The Roots - Sleep
- 124
The Roots - Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)
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The Roots - Stomp
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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 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 Return To Innocence Lost
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The Roots - The Show
- 137
The Roots - The Ultimate
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The Roots - Thought @ Work
- 139
The Roots - Tip The Scale
- 140
The Roots - Unwritten
- 141
The Roots - Walk Alone
- 142
The Roots - Web
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The Roots - What Goes On Part 7
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The Roots - What You Want
- 145
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
The Return To Innocence Lost
The Roots
Muffled sound of fist on flesh
Blows to chest
No breath
Air gasps
You ain't nothing but white trash, bitch!
With each hit, each kick, each...broken rib
Crack, Crack!
Bones are crying
Mommy's crying and bleeding
And pleading
And then...
Daddy wants to fuck
Dick hard, swelled with power rush
And as if all that wasn't enough
Mommy's seven months heavy with birth
As...Daddy grunts and cursed drunk nothings in her bloodied ear
[singing softly]
First...lullaby
First...Son...will...ever...hear
And never forget
Mommy almost bled to death when she have him...finally
She'd already lost...three
Uterus-bruised, shredded, and weak
From being daily beat
And Friday nights were the worse and...
Daddy never came with flowers
Instead he spent hours at some corner spot
With some bar pop named Cookie
Putting his thing down
Soiling Mommy's sheets with...
Sweet...talk shit,
Cookie's cheap lipstick,
Hair grease, sperm, and jezebel juice
To hell with the good news that...
He was a father for the first time
His thirst for wine and women
Clouded his vision...
No warm welcome for mother and son
Just...
The rank smell of ass-crack, funk, and cum
But Mommy's prayerful strength-her best defense
She...burned the dirty linens
Made a fresh bed
Laid sleeping First Son down
And never made a sound
As she purged her scourge
With birth-blood and quiet tears
Watching as her fears and love and sacrifice
Lie there in his soft skin and new life
Breathing, dreaming, fresh from God's eye
Mommy's little survivor
Like...her
Mommy called crazy and scorned
'Cuz she two more born
One boy soon after
The girl much later and...
Although they were both sung the same lullabies of hate
Her...First Son, the first one
Whose...womb-world was profaned
Came of age playing street games
With Stewie, Rezzie, and Little Brother
'Till his heart start to wither
In pain and shame
Blamed Mom for the wrong she let Daddy do to her
And him...
Let...sins of the Father cause his Innocence to wander
Found out amongst thieves
Chose to squander his dreams
Stopped believing in himself
Become prodigal with his life
Make impossible shit right with...
Gang-ties, crime, lies
Erase wise, woeful words of Mother
Replaced them with absurdities of others
Who had also lost their way
Played a different kind of street game now
First Son plunged deep
Speak street-family vows
Espouse no causes but his own
See, he couldn't protect Mommy's neck from Daddy's grasp
Or...protect Mommy's ass from Daddy's wrath
Couldn't shield her ears from...
Daddy's foul-mouthed, liquor-breath jeers
His only defense-served be confidence
Brown bottles housed his swift descent
Phones called cops on block frequent for his shenanigans
Now...Daddy and him twins in addiction
Driven to false-hearted heavens and friends
By liquefied demons
Had become what he despised from Conception 'til End
Destined for a demise
Survived nine lives of staying high
Conning, jewelry-pawning, arrests, theft
Womanizing...only for money, never for sex
Bullet in chest, baseball bat to the head
Left for dead
So, eyes wide and glassy
Speech...slowed and slurred
Lips twitched with caked-up codeine candy
And mouth corners one December 24th
Mr. Hide and False Friend
Took final ride to suburban supplier
Shots were fired by the gray man
With shaky hand
But not shaky enough to miss...
Hit...Lost Boy in back
So-called Friend runs for door
Leaves First Son blood-born
Lying alone in blood on cold floor
Death was the cause of...
Returning to Innocence Lost...
Baby 'Sis awake for dawn on Christmas morn
To Mommy's sobs and shakes
Daddy's silhouettes of regret
All past, omitted, and absolved by lost
As they clung to each other
Knowing...