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 THE ROOTS - Universe At War Lyrics

[feat. Common]
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[Intro: Common]
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Yeah, U.N.I.Verse
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at war
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U.N.I.Verse [when you and I verse]
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at war mother####er
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We gonna do this Chi-town style [verse at war]
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Illadelph, you know how we get down
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You know the business [Illtown illanoid]
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Bringin it straight to your chest [comin thru with the iller category]
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Yessah, hah, yeah [preacher man with the Com]
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Break it down one two [we about to drop a bomb, check it]
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[Chorus: 2X]
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When you and I verse at war [U.N.I.Verse at War]
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And your verse at core, for what you thought before
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Steppin up into a zone you should never explore
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The next level or, level of the whole conceptor
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[Verse One:]
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Check it, rappers
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Get on the mic talk about cars and clothes
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Sounding like hoes
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Ain't been exposed to the foes of most disciples
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I'm from the state that is Ill, the rap son of man
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Rotated down to Phil, to say what I feel
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Get it off my burnt chest, my word becomes flesh
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War, going on between the West and the East
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of the land, niggaz don't own a piece
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Grease is the word, Murray slides some pimp oil to me
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My lady friend sneaks my beer in the movie
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Throw your hands in the air, if you the true and living
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Beware, the new world order, the devil's new religion
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Sent my homey to the number two division
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Sellin bootleg movies, got my VCR on a evasive maneuver
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Be that as I chooses, drinkin tropical it's just sittin
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at a table with sophisticated bitches
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Nah that ain't nothin I would call my mother
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Nor do I call every nigga my brother
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Gotta have Black Thought, it's sorta B like Malik
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So don't Question a Brother, to the Roots I get deep
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[Verse Two:]
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Yo, enter the last era
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Your scholarship into the world of politics
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and mascara, we operate within this artificial op-era
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I bring hip-hop terror like the Fuhrer
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The Ace Ventura into the horror
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Laboratory laborer, venture beyond the border
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I'll struc-ture a style destroy your whole aura
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Plus you're a-drenalin'll rise before your eyes
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and mortalize, my image hit the skies
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Deceive the devil in disguise
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My music I parenthesize
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Represent the wise, do this be how we enterprise
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Kid no compromise [yeah, yeah] I'm thinkin fast like drama
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Dyin I wear your mind away like Alzheimer
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I pull a mic up out my bomber big up to Bahama
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The A-O this year we leavin em in trauma
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Then after me, I plan to leave behind, the legacy
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or history of the family, the fifth dynasty
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For humanity, to bear witness to this
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Del-val-syllable stylist
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You know the time kid
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[Chorus 2X]
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[Verse Three:]
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Yo, the general flows, kids compose on tablet
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Expose how they was average and they thoughts not rapid
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Here comes the hot package, through your block like traffic
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The rock was typed graphic now watch the mic blast it
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Shootin at the stars with emphatic rap static
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See the mirror shatter from thoughts, I'm bustin back at it
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The Lieuten-ant, the ele-phant, sippin automatic
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Mic, rippin asiatic, architects out to have it
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The turn of the century, the planet's like a penitentiary
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exaggerated, niggaz is livin highly medicated
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I Used to Love but now she violated
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Hip-hop holocaust and camps, old champs are concentrated
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They outdated and incarcerated
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Loved and appreciated hated and very debated
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For every career created was eliminated
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And that's the way the balance of yin and yang related
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[Verse Four: Common]
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As the block is de-vine
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Niggaz swing on in a safari
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Wild niggaz, like I'm high on latari
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Some let the block block they mind if they could see what I see
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Get out the city for a sec be at the places I be
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Hey, I'ma be back on the deck, opening
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Business in places for you to cash your check
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My, neck of the woods ain't all good ain't all bad
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You can live in the burbs, and still get had
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The sad part about it niggaz had houses on the lake
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They tryin to move us out, the land we ain't appreciate
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For peace we skate, crackers we roll or player hate
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Call each other cuz cause of how we relate
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I see way too many Cadillacs with dope man plates
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Through the wind and blow-ups, is how niggaz communicate
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Harmonizing through beeper and reefer
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The city got my peoples in a sleeper, talk is getting cheaper
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[Chorus 4X]
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