Game Theory - The Roots.mp3

[00:00.465][Intro: Sly Stone]
[00:01.217]This is a game
[00:04.731]I'm your specimen
[00:10.999]This is a game
[00:14.511]I'm your specimen
[00:20.801]This is a game
[00:24.559]I'm your specimen
[00:30.828]This is a game
[00:34.340]I'm your specimen
[00:35.619]
[00:37.208][Bridge: Sly Stone]
[00:45.485]You've got to let me know, baby
[00:48.057]So I can go
[00:50.072]I'd have to fake it, I could not make it
[00:54.859]You could not take it
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[00:55.931][Verse 1: Black Thought]
[00:55.974]Yeah, where I'ma start it at; look, I'm a part of that
[00:58.264]Downtown Philly, where it's realer than a heart attack
[01:01.068]It wasn't really that ill until the start of crack
[01:03.576]Now, it's a body caught every night on the Almanac
[01:06.082]Rock bottom, where them cops got a problem at
[01:08.346]Where them outsiders getting popped for they wallet at
[01:11.117]I had nothing, but I made something out of that
[01:13.625]Now, I'm the first out the limo like Charlie Mack
[01:16.138]From 2-1-5, it's him, the livest one
[01:18.651]And he's representing Philly to the fullest
[01:20.670]Black's the realest, you can't touch him
[01:22.719]And not for nothing, if you 'bout hip-hop, then you gots to love it
[01:25.971]If not, then, **** it, I'm still handling
[01:28.453]Smoking more reefer than Redman and 'em
[01:30.960]Damaging MCs, and my name—'Riq, geez
[01:33.218]You endangered species
[01:34.725]For what I do, I'm 'bout to up the fees, I'm paper chase-motivated
[01:38.097]I ain't the one to play with, these cats get set ablaze
[01:40.605]You can have it y'all way, but I'd rather parlay
[01:43.161]Just smoke O.G. and get cabbage all day
[01:45.666]The way foreplay causes your main thing to say:
[01:48.177]"You style so splendid; you 'bout your business"
[01:50.707]You arousing my interests, you sharper than a shogun
[01:53.212]You know the way it go, huh—game! Know what I'm talking 'bout?
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[01:55.013][Hook: Black Thought]
[01:56.265]"Hus'"—that's short for "hustlers"
[01:58.523]We Black Ink, Raw Life productions
[02:00.782]Tryna find our spots amongst the ruckus
[02:03.351]And be sucker-free, and free of chumps and busters, man
[02:06.361]Yeah, get 'em, hus', get 'em, hus', get 'em, hus'
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[02:08.869][Verse 2: Black Thought]
[02:10.406]Ayo, I'm tryn get it at any cost, so it's no remorse
[02:13.428]When I'm blasting off like you been asking for
[02:15.989]When Black step in the door all hats is off
[02:18.531]Your hands up in the air going back and forth
[02:21.036]I'm about ready for a classic massacre
[02:23.543]I'll make it hotter than when Shaft in Africa
[02:26.052]Jump out a black Porshe huffing a fat cigar
[02:28.313]Night-riding on 'em like my last name Hasselhoff
[02:31.298]Voted unlikely to succeed 'cause my class was full
[02:33.804]Of naysayers, cheaters and thieves
[02:35.605]All it gave me was a good enough reason to leave
[02:37.862]And put the writing on the wall for y'all to read it and weep
[02:40.410]'Cause I'm the force of the Lord, the rage of Hell
[02:42.939]You'd rather head for the hills and save yourselves
[02:45.505]My man rip drums like he ringing the bells
[02:48.013]The king of the realm, you seen him do his thing in a film, c'mon
[02:48.781]
[02:50.314][Hook: Black Thought]
[02:51.311]"Hus'"—that's short for "hustlers"
[02:53.570]We Black Ink, Raw Life productions
[02:55.829]Tryna find our spots amongst the ruckus
[02:58.616]And be sucker-free, and free of chumps and busters, man
[03:01.149]Yeah, get 'em, hus', get 'em, hus', get 'em, hus'
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[03:03.692][Verse 3: Malik B]
[03:05.764]Dreams with M16s with infrared beams
[03:08.271]Blowing up presidents' cribs with cans of kerosene
[03:10.774]Hijack the limousine with a strategic routine
[03:13.095]Then blast my enemies, head for the Caribbeans
[03:15.871]The militant guerilla camp is ready for war
[03:18.129]Lay you on the face-down
[03:19.635]Place down your jewels, cash and four-four
[03:21.893]When I score, prepare for torture
[03:23.874]**** around and make your town Warsaw
[03:26.159]I'm from Illadel', the land where the killers dwell
[03:28.419]My technique is to ambush you, guerilla-style
[03:30.928]My instinct is of a killer whale
[03:32.699]Bang you up from head to toe
[03:33.963]With lyrics I pack like a nine-millimal'
[03:35.972]My type subliminal mentality switched to criminal
[03:38.748]Importing heroin internash' from Senegal
[03:41.009]A soldier takes his stripes from a general
[03:43.286]Used the mic of iron or lead, you choose your mineral
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[03:45.293][Outro: Sly Stone sample]
[03:46.364]This is a game
[03:47.618]And I'm your specimen
[03:50.373]You've got to let me know, baby
[03:53.178]So I can go
[03:54.934]I'd have to fake it, I could not make it
[03:59.966]You could not—