No Great Pretender Lyrics - Illadelph Halflife - The Roots

[malik b] 

Check it out, one two 

M-illi-tant 

I be the, alias malik b 

Internationale rationale 

All the people up 68th ave. 

And across broad street 

Or silk lane in south philly 

And on, et cetera 

Check it out, check it out 

Chorus: the roots 

Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders 

So when we begin to assassinate your cast members 

Here on this agenda, there is no pretenders 

So when we begin to assassinate your cast members 

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Verse one: malik b 

Dig it, cool calm collect in my perspective 

Search the premises, I leave no clues for detectives 

My verbal impact across your back slap 

You talk about you see me, but your vision's full of cataract 

It don't matter that, your glass house I shatter that 

Bad luck I walk under now show me where the ladder at 

Pull up the urinal organs up in your bladder cat 

Approachin you with shriller rhetoric, as if you had a sac 

Now crews down for it, your gas pedal floor it 

With ammo and artillery and stash spots to keep and store it 

I used the banner of a slant with a zort 

Change your strategic plan, my man's getting bored 

Your vocal chord is fraudulent, and not the true porcelain 

I bring the fire, earth, and the source of wind 

The force of sin will endorse the pen 

We all search for sanity, but I think that it was lost again 

Now which stick of artists, can be the smartest 

My beam of sunlight shines the brightest in the forest 

Regardless, artists dislike because I'm? 

Control the temper, makin mc's whimper 

I tilt the earth from off the axis in the center 

Next I'm in the womb like a placenta 

M-illi-tant the city ninja, uplift 

Cause I'm the soul avenger, remember I'm no great pretender 

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Chorus 2x 

Verse two: black thought 

Strategis, I bet y'all niggaz can't believe this 

I read you like a whole avenue that's filled with meters 

Parked, fuck your back talk, I watch how niggaz cat-walk 

Over my pit of venom and send em to the asphault 

For inquisitives, who wanna try to test me 

What protects me, will make you shake like epilipsy 

Plague your neighborhood with lyrical le-prosy 

Stimulate more than ecstasy y'all niggaz check my recipe 

Dig it, I must observe it, analyze when I'm chillin 

Peep out who's the villain then make your whole pavillion 

Of a sicilian, excuse the greed don't want a mill' 

I want a zillion - stacks of franklins to the ceiling 

I counts stacks imported, fuck the yacht and the mansion 

I want pluto and jupiter, political, universal expansion 

Buy out tommy and halle hanson 

Kidnap america,? you hold it for ransom 

Pass it down to my grandson, I got no time to be romancin 

Only time's for mental food and advancement 

This game of life is strictly chancein - get to know 

The nature before I get know the nigga while I'm glancing 

Enhancing, is my mental - I play in the midst 

A squad a team most crews is not in the halfs of rentals 

My utensils, display a whole variety 

Even when in the cut niggaz can't cut they anxiety 

Peep, I fill your brain with suspicion, pay attention 

Like you paid tuition, and stop all your bull-ishin 

The rap chemist in the lab to the finish 

The mic is my apprentice, cause I can't stand 

Courts or tennis, my pigmentation is the menace 

That's why the system's always tryin to pursue with a blemish 

Pale asses, think a nigga in this 

My flow's tremendous, for the meal you can't replenish 

The question you ask me, situation get worse 

Fam I won't befriend ya, cause I'm no great pretender 

Chorus 2x 

[malik b] 

It's like that, one time for your mind 

Fifth dynasty, interwine and combine 

M-illi-tant 

The bad lieuten-ant 

One hundred x, bahamadia 

Minds and souls, like that 

Fifth dynast', my man?, p.r. star 

My man slick looka 

Check it out, one time like that 

Feel the fifth 

The one-fifth attack 

Your backbone and spine 

Check it out 

Brother q.u.e.s.t. 

South philly,?