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The Roots - You Got Me ft. Erykah Badu

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Music video by The Roots performing You Got Me. (C) 1999 Geffen Records

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Black Thought - Magnificent (Audio)

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-29 | Music video by Black Thought performing Magnificent (Audio). © 2020 Passyunk Productions, LLC, under exclusive license to Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.

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Nature Of The Beast (Official Lyric Video)

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-22 | Official lyric video of Black Thought “Nature of the Beast” feat. Portugal. The Man & The Last Artful, Dodgr from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

We’re like sheep to the slaughter.
Everybody’s caught up
Trying to find something to be a part of,
Living with our guards up all the time.
Forever with the wall up.
And breaking through it all never crossed our mind.
The world seems smaller and greatness is withering on the vine.

Won’t anybody take the lead?
It's ourselves we love the least.
Everyone seems make believe,
That's the nature of the beast.
A couple dollars and a dream.
What did Mama say kid?.
Everything ain’t what it seems.
Life is what you make it.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing
Going through the same shit.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing
Going through the same shit.

All I wanted was to be more poppin
And to see more profit.
Whats the detour options. Ay!
I feel like Philip Seymour Hoffman
And less Denzel Washington, when people are watching me.
If the right amount of likes and follows could make me less hollow
I’d somehow be more complete.
But people tend to be more toxic
So we see more gossip and it’s tension on the streets.

Won’t anybody take the lead?
It's ourselves we love the least.
Everyone seems make believe
That's the nature of the beast.
A couple dollars and a dream.
What did Mama say kid? .
Everything ain’t what it seems.
Life is what you make it.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing,
Going through the same shit.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing,
Going through the same shit.

Everybody’s caught up trying to find.
Living with our guards up all the time.
And breaking through it all never crossed our minds.
And greatness is withering on the vine.
A couple dollars and a dream.
What did Mama say kid?
Everything ain’t what it seems.
Life is what you make it.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing
Going through the same shit.
We are, We are.
Going through the same thing,
Going through the same shit.

I’m tired of this.
What is it, what are you tired of?
I’m tired of you not being here
I’m here.
The only time that I’m connected with you is via social media. And you never home

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Black Thought - We Could Be Good (United) (Audio) ft. C.S. Armstrong, OSHUN

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-16 | Official audio of Black Thought “We Should Be Good “(United) feat. C.S. Armstrong & Oshun from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

No one can always be kissing under the mistletoe.
Eventually you’ll be sending each other missiles
And wondering just where this’ll go.
Even considering splittin,
But neither one of you wanna make it official though.
That pressure builds in the kettle until the whistle blow.
I know if ever I left you, I’d only miss you though.
Our love is in a place where there's no time and space.
There’s no time to waste on the outside of our divine embrace, because of my mistakes.
Sometimes we overcomplicate and undercompensate.
I try to keep it namaste, but you’ve just got complaints.
I say you know me and you told me to get out your face.
But you should know your crown is safe
And I’m proud to say I’d never just vanish without a trace.
Who's counting arguments? There’s too many to calculate .
I know it's a sweet and sour taste but when it’s good, it’s great.
Energy and chemistry gets out of symmetry but we could be

We can be good baby.
All you do is complain.
Ohh we can be good baby.
All you do is complain

I’m like Johann Sebastian,
The Zohan of fashion.
The slow mind is really showing no signs of graspin.
Go find the caption to explain the neutron and proton attraction
That’s got my wife at home jealous of my microphone,
Telling me she really be missing the smell of my cologne.
That I'm too grown to be living this life of rock n roll.
That all the tension is really starting to take its toll.
And not to mention, I really should try to take control.
Instead of breaking and taking her where she hates to go.
I know it's because of that memory she cringes,
The door was off the hinges, the curtain shredded to fringes.
It's crazy seeing the same image through different lenses.
I’d like to say the price we pay shouldn't be that expensive.
If something isn’t righteous,
It's making you apprehensive.
But time is working with us, not against us

And we could be good baby.
All you do is complain.
Ohh we can be good baby.
All you do is complain.

We both going to feel,
But we ain't gotta fight.
You can be real, fuck trying to be right.
You can be straight with me, never tell lies.
Easy as cake baby, we can be pi.
Instead of us trippin, you flippin 'all night.
We can be trippin, jumpin on flights.
And we should just listen, we gonna disagree.
Shit, baby we different

We could be good baby.
All you do is complain.
Ohh we can be good baby.
But all you do is complain.

My soul can really feel your soul, you know what I mean.
Spirit or no spirits and our spirits agree.

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Black Thought - Ghetto Boys and Girls (Fuel Interlude) (Audio)

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-16 | Official audio of Black Thought “Ghetto Boyz and Girls” feat. C.S. Armstrong (Fuel Interlude) from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

I came from the bottom up.
God dammit, my family never had enough.
Listen, everything I leave to this world is for these Ghetto Boyz & Girlz.

And they convince us to adopt lies
Til the stock rise.
While them vultures trying to push the culture counter clockwise.
Got us licking shots at one another for popeyes.
N**gas rock climb, trying to come out on the top side.
I mean the top of the food chain, fuck a top five.
My fears fueling my mood swings like the Mach Five.
What's the reason I just got high? I forgot why.
Another day, another glock fired like we’re not tied.
Hollow men in the wasteland like T.S Eliot.
Spear sticking out in the flesh of a fresh elephant.
News coming out in the press and they just relish it.
When your hope’s shattered in stress
You say the hell with it.
This is for my young boys in them gun wars,
Out here on their going dumb jawn on the front lawn.
Trying to break the long arm of the law
That hunts for em.
Bettin lives on the luck of the draw.
We want more n**ga.
Still moving on a boy n**ga.
We not human, we at war n**ga.

It’s for these Ghetto Boyz and Girls
Listen

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Black Thought - State Prisoner (Audio)

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-16 | Official audio of Black Thought “State Prisoner” from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

We need each other, we have to have each other for our survival.
From the revolutionaries to the conservatives. A Black united front, is what we’re about.

The making of the mob
The changing of the guard
An angel from the lord, in ceremonial garb,
The big homie in charge
Main culprit at large
Emerged over the odds
The victory is ours
The talented Mr. Trotter
A midnight marauder.
If it’s blood in the water, no stopping the top shotter
I drop bombs, multiples arms like candelabras on a mission
I’m chasing chicken like a Chupacabra n**ga
Salute your father, I’m heading back to Wakanda
After the drama, rappers get medivac’d to the trauma
To kill a lion, separate it from the pride
I rule Zion, I am the most hated one alive
A gun was fired, another one expired
I represent the unwanted, undesired
Washed my hands of it all, then raised one and testified
To lyrical manslaughter, I’m guilty but justified n**ga

I’ve been hanging out on the streets since I was little
When I started hanging out at eleven, I knew what to do when I was twelve

Trust the vibe, when it’s the
Fly sinister
Philly’s certified finisher, the Prime Minister
In God’s image. The monument, the homage is to
The problem is acknowledging, how to apply penance for the transgressions
That I’ve accepted, in acquiescence of my own presence
As I inspected my loaded weapon.
Y'all just don't get it.
So stream it at your own discretion every answered question,
Investment in your own protection.
They be like Black
Well who knew, we’d be receiving a new you
That's part Zulu and Farrakhan meets Pharaoh Khufu?
Misinterpret my level of genius and call it coocoo.
But the Swahili meaning of freedom is still Uhuru
To the booth guru. I deliver the truth to you.
Who’s got the nerve to act as if this isn’t proof to you
That I will mobilize a militia then troop to you?
No telling what I’ve got n the system to shoot through you,
If it's too brutal, look the other way like
I’m bribing you, but surrender all your valuables
As if I'm robbing you, as I slide
The hassle to the side like a tassel.
The facade of the place I reside, is like a castle.
I'm The Honorable Pensèe Noir, my nom de guerre
I’m the Czar
The Peking-to-Paris, is my kind of car.
I’m the R, I’m the L, I’m the Kane.
All correlated. Unadulterated power.
The King’s been coronated. Wake up.
No masquerade, remove the make up.
It’s no sleeping. My eyes refuse to stay shut.
There’s gatekeepers responsible for this place,
But historically the authority’s been morally bankrupt.
Enter the executioner, speaking of retribution.
I will send shots to Lucifer even to catch the future .
Me and the best producers out again. On route again.
Airborne audio spores, it's like an allergen.
So in conclusion, I wanna clear the confusion,
Any rumors the artist you’re currently hearing is human.
The shapeshifter, weightlifter, I hate Hitler.
I’m the great victor behind the bars.
State prisoner

#TheRoots

Black Thought - Im Not Crazy (First Contact) (Audio)

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-16 | Official audio of Black Thought “I’m Not Crazy” (First Contact) from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

21 pounds, 21 pounds, 21 pounds

John Trudell: So, when Columbus got here, he got off the boat and he said to the first people he saw “Who are you?” And the first people he saw said “We’re human beings”.

They say the world keep turning
California is burning
Who reignited the thirst for knowledge
Over the learning?
Oh wise and powerful, black scholar holding a sermon
The Gods is
proud of you with your sword raised in a turban.

John Trudell: Columbus said “Oh, Indians”

The return of the prodigal Sire accountable
For making remarks remarkable
I hear some artists withdrew and I was responsible.
A vessel partial for sending that holy gospel through

John Trudell: Columbus is every descendant of the tribe of Europe that came. This is a mentality that came. The Columbus mentality, we name it. But in about discovering this is, it's almost like this. . .when the virus got here .

We go to war when peaceful solutions are impossible.
A mountain is not to be confused with an obstacle.

John Trudell: Anyway, when Columbus got here, and he didn't know what it meant to be a human being.

Stop fucking resisting, back up, back up
I’m not moving
Back up, back up
What the fuck I’m standing right her,. I’m not moving. I’m standing still.
Back up, Back up, Back up

Love, patience, brotherhood and unity. We try, and we try and we try. If they become a threat

#TheRoots

Black Thought - Fuel (Audio) ft. Portugal. The Man, The Last Artful, Dodgr

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-16 | Official audio of Black Thought “Fuel” feat. Portugal. The Man & The Last Artful, Dodgr from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

P is for the city, P is for the city. P
Is for the city where it all began

I’m an Ernest Hemingway portrait
Painted by Ernie Barns.
Clean sneakers and dirty horns.
Last soldier of thirty gone,
Who lost hope but still journeyed on.
Yet I’m the reason we gonna have to get the gurney for em.
Karma police carrying customize cuffs for me.
I hope these taped up guns still bust for me.
I had the whole world, that wasn't enough for me.
And got me feeling like the Lord lost trust for me.
I made a means to an end, where there were no wins.
I burned bridges, I had sworn to be eternal friends.
The last ones I ever intended to turn against,
Until we grew our separate ways like fraternal twins.
So, to the chosen few with whom I need to reconcile;
My mother’s mother, my only brother, my second child.
I’ve always loved you.
Although that was rarely said out loud
So take forever, I guess better late than never proud.
Listen

I’m gonna breathe in the bellows with the apple on my head.
Hard to gain perspective with the world in your hands.
Gonna drown in the shallow, ashes in the bay.
Never looking back until there’s nothing in my way.

Identify with the dead or the livin? I dunno.
Maybe my peoples set up to fall like a domino.
America the beautiful, go ask Geronimo.
What's the worst they can do to you?
I bet my mama know.
I bet my father know.
Your Honor’d throw the book at us.
Even if justice wasn’t blind, she’d never look at us.
I want that clutch of what I could not touch.
I was trynna to get what I can get before I get locked up.
And when that death clock struck,
I was depressed enough to go ahead and press my luck.
They held me down so long, I figured I should just rise up,
Like helium from the delirium.
Try to change my skin color like a chameleon.
But are my best years of life behind us still ahead of me?
What would I leave behind if I was over everything?
The foundation for creation of a better me.
That's honestly the true definition of legacy.

I’m gonna breathe in the bellows with the apple on my head.
Hard to gain perspective with the world in your hands.
Gonna drown in the shallow, ashes in the bay.
Devil on my back and there's a demon in my way.

Told you once, can't fool me twice.
Hate to be the bearer of bad advice.
But I see before my eyes. Bear witness
Fuel the fire to light the path of least resistance. Resistance.

They say my seed is a future threat.
That’s all too correct,
For that two fifths of a man,
That barrel to your neck.
God dammit, the hot hammer get all due respect,
For the young cell block cannon that calls you collect.
After runnin multiple rings like the dream team.
Trying to breathe and touch the keys like Kasseem Dean.
Supreme cream, his hands so dirty
It seemed clean.
Scream murder, watchin thirty for thirty.
Here go the theme n**ga

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I’m gonna breathe in the bellows with the apple on my head.
Hard to gain perspective with the world in your hands.
Gonna drown in the shallow, the lovebird in the bay.
Never looking back until there’s nothing in my way.

P is for the city

Black Thought - Im Not Crazy - Outro (Audio)

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-16 | Official audio of Black Thought “I’m Not Crazy” (Outro) from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

We go to war when peaceful solution is impossible.
A mountain is not to be confused with an obstacle.
I’m as sharp as a scalpel that’s used in the hospital.
So until that day we expire and turn to vapors,
I’ll be making this paper and finally earnin my acreage.
Leavin for Quadry, Asa,
Ahmir and Benjamin, Trevor and Jordan, Bia, Tarik and them finally be safer.
I lay it all on the line, find me a taker.
If any man is an island, I’ll be probably Jamaica.
A storm is formin too, stand down yo I’m warnin you.
I come to switch up the climate like global warmin do.
A man called Portugal got with the oracle.
We move from metaphorical to historical.

When we introduced ourselves to the Europeans as human beings, they just didn't get it.

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Black Thought - Quiet Trip (Audio) ft. Portugal. The Man, The Last Artful, Dodgr

TheRootsVEVO 2020-10-16 | Official audio of Black Thought “Quiet Trip” feat. Portugal. The Man & The Last Artful, Dodgr from the new album Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able, available everywhere now: https://BlackThought.lnk.to/SOTV3

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Lyrics:

Oh my god I can't believe my eyes.
Wake up everybody you know, come on watch the garden grow.
See you when you get there

Two Fifteen
Downtown for the win whoa!
Sean C for the tempo.
Portugal for the intro.
This is Arctical Don Disco
From the one choir, calling shots like an umpire.
Where I live yo man,
I done lost mad kinfolk over gunfire through the window.
As a young squire who become Sire
I had no way to tell what I was in for.
I was five nine like Royce
With the giant voice like Mike Winslow.
Never been quite like “them” so I’m on my own time.
Mind darker than a coal mine,
Thoughts deeper than a gold mine
So I'm out here slangin on this blade,
Hoping that I don't get cut
By these police making raids on those of us who know what's up.
My lil homies, my lil sons got them keys and they got them drums.
Making superstitious runs on them insufficient funds.
No more rules to this here shit, toddlers packing a revolver,
How the hell you robbers gonna rob the robber?
See you with that heater
You sweeter than peach cobbler.
If it ain't about that paper, then man that ain’t what Reek habla.
Man you know what's goin, they say woke about that dope.
Ask them fiends about them keys, about that coke, about that smoke.
Two fifteen my city man. And we it from round here,
If it's crazy where you at then, it aint no different round here.

Oh my god, I can't believe my eyes.
Wake up everybody you know, come on watch the garden grow.
See you when you get there
Oh my god, I can't believe my eyes.
Wake up everybody you know, come on watch the garden grow.
See you when you get there

Reminiscing over old times.
Sip a little bit of Oban
When the wind blow like a landmine.
Balled up fist.
Nah, Who the fuck’s this calling on the landline?
Back back like a hairline.
I don't really want the air time.
I don’t wanna smile for the camera.
Damn I just wanna see my fam rise.
I can feel when a man lies.
Trying to grow old and wise and I'm still fly like airlines.
Stay sharp like samurais.
Dip low like Cam’ron.
Big show when it’s slam time.
Word to my n**ga Anton
Bogarting through this door
Hoping that it don’t get shut,
By these police making raids on those of us who know what's up.
My lil uzi weighs a ton, man I truly ain't the one.
My lil junior straight from juvie, make a movie gangster run.
Y'all confusing here this shit, with some television drama.
None of y’all Lil Mamas, touching Mr. Trotter.
Even with that heater, you sweeter than peach cobbler.
Real ones out here winning, you swimming in deep agua.
Click pow, I’m a rebel just for kicks now.
Been down with the get down.
You aint saying shit, sit down.
This loud. 21 pound my town.
Man we it from round here,
If they bout it where you from then it aint no different down here.
Listen.

Oh my, god I can't believe my eyes. Wake up everybody you know,
Come on watch the garden grow. See you when you get there

Oh my god, I can't believe my eyes.
Wake up everybody you know, come on watch the garden grow.
See you when you get there

At the end of the day, everybody got good and bad. And every culture and every race
But you also gotta remember, where Your people at.
So you always just wanna love your people unconditionally no matter what.

#TheRoots

Black Thought - Nature Of The Beast (Audio) ft. Portugal. The Man, The Last Artful, Dodgr

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Lyrics:

We’re like sheep to the slaughter.
Everybody’s caught up
Trying to find something to be a part of,
Living with our guards up all the time.
Forever with the wall up.
And breaking through it all never crossed our mind.
The world seems smaller and greatness is withering on the vine.

Won’t anybody take the lead?
It's ourselves we love the least.
Everyone seems make believe,
That's the nature of the beast.
A couple dollars and a dream.
What did Mama say kid?.
Everything ain’t what it seems.
Life is what you make it.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing
Going through the same shit.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing
Going through the same shit.

All I wanted was to be more poppin
And to see more profit.
Whats the detour options. Ay!
I feel like Philip Seymour Hoffman
And less Denzel Washington, when people are watching me.
If the right amount of likes and follows could make me less hollow
I’d somehow be more complete.
But people tend to be more toxic
So we see more gossip and it’s tension on the streets.

Won’t anybody take the lead?
It's ourselves we love the least.
Everyone seems make believe
That's the nature of the beast.
A couple dollars and a dream.
What did Mama say kid? .
Everything ain’t what it seems.
Life is what you make it.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing,
Going through the same shit.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing,
Going through the same shit.

Everybody’s caught up trying to find.
Living with our guards up all the time.
And breaking through it all never crossed our minds.
And greatness is withering on the vine.
A couple dollars and a dream.
What did Mama say kid?
Everything ain’t what it seems.
Life is what you make it.
We are, we are.
Going through the same thing
Going through the same shit.
We are, We are.
Going through the same thing,
Going through the same shit.

I’m tired of this.
What is it, what are you tired of?
I’m tired of you not being here
I’m here.
The only time that I’m connected with you is via social media. And you never home

#TheRoots

Black Thought - Experience (Audio)

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Lyrics:

I come from a place of experience, you know what I'm saying.
Bobby Womack told me once, “You got to go through it, to get to it”.
It’s real, you know what I mean. You have to go through it, to get to it with regards to life cuz I’ve lived it, you know what I mean.

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Black Thought - Magnificent (Audio)

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Lyrics:

Two fifteen
I hurt myself to see if I could feel.
Then I began to pray to see if God was real.
I said, “All-Seeing reveal to me”. That which is concealed.
Something told me that I probably shouldn’t be behind the wheel of that Bonneville. I was still feeling kinda ill.
Not a dollar bill. Time to kill. Trying to sign a deal.
Ten years before state prop was rock la famille.
I was popping pills unaware that steel sharpens steel. I’ve grown.
Dropping my popular B-Boy poems
Took me to Amiri Baraka from Leroi Jones.
To Hajj Malik El Shabazz from Detroit Red
And to the polar opposite of what your report said.
When me and Sponart was playing our part
Creating con art to curating fine art.
Now a n**ga’s a monarch.
The torch head was forced fed,
Look how the flames flicker.
Now if it’s what Thought said, you know the name quicker.

The big homie in The Smithsonian.
I'm an ox, so the box
N**gas can’t throw me in.
The punishment imma hit em with is draconian.
It’s in me. Muscle memory is pavlovian,
The magnificent with a tinted skin tone.
Ain’t nobody fucking with me.
Keep em in the friend zone.
Keep em closer than my enemy which I depend on for that motivation.
Thats what keep a n**ga en vogue.
Fingers full of flintstones,
Louder than a motherfucking pimp's clothes.
Haters, I am the weapon the Lord formed against those.
I prefer the law of mathematics over Jim Crow’s.
My prose keep them devils jumpin out the windows.
The man telling you shams to go to hell if you a god damned pyramid, scam evangelical.
The origin of my grace is unavailable
But you would know the name of the place
Is Illadel, if you a real one.

I’m the Magnificent

Got the bop gun loaded up to kill one.
Drop cruising like Top Gun through Brazil.
When your net worth is millions, people too familiar.
My network is real young, careful where you chill son.
I’m the Magnificent
Stay playing where them bad bitches is.
Dilla, Slum Village, macknickelous.
People know my style nasty as black licorice.
Telephone stacks sickening, thats n**ga rich.
Don't make me burn your wings off like the Icarus.
The Lord take away the same thing he giveth us.
Temptation do not lead, please deliver us.
When you a beast, you kinda cease to give a fuck.
You stop listen. Please tell me not this again.
Begging “ Bring back Black, the block missing him!”
To murder tracks right in front of mad witnesses.
Forty four magnificent, what the bidness is?

#TheRoots

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It Ain’t Fair (From The Detroit Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Lyric Video)

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It Ain’t Fair (feat. Bilal) (From The Detroit Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Audio)

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The Roots - Toazted Interview 2004 (Questlove, part 2)

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The Roots - Toazted Interview 2004 (Questlove, part 1)

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"For a rap group to say 'this is our 7th record' and for it to mean something is amazing in itself. The most logical thing for us to do is to make a simple record."

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"For a rap group to say 'this is our 7th record' and for it to mean something is amazing in itself. The most logical thing for us to do is to make a simple record."

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The Roots - Never ft. Patty Crash

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The Roots - When The People Cheer (Lyric Video) ft. Modesty Lycan, Greg Porn

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The Roots - Understand ft. Dice Raw, Greg Porn

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The Roots - What They Do (With Text)

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The Roots - VEVO News Interview

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The Roots - VEVO News Interview: Growing Up

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VEVO News chats with Questlove and Black Thought of The Roots. © 2011 VEVO

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The Roots - VEVO News Interview: Fans of Karmin

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The Roots - Dear God 2.0 ft. Monsters Of Folk

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The Roots - I Dont Care ft. Dom

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The Roots - Star (Clean Version)

The Roots - Break You Off ft. Musiq

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The Roots - How I Got Over

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The Roots - 75 Bars (Blacks Reconstruction)

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The Roots - Rising Up ft. Wale, Chrisette Michele

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The Roots - Birthday Girl ft. Patrick Stump

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The Roots - Clones

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The Roots - Star

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The Roots - Proceed

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The Roots - The Next Movement

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The Roots - Concerto Of The Desperado

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The Roots - Distortion To Static

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The Roots - Silent Treatment

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The Roots - The Seed (2.0) (Official Music Video) ft. Cody ChesnuTT

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The Roots - Break You Off (BET Version) ft. Musiq

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The Roots - What They Do (Official Music Video)

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The Roots - Dont Say Nuthin

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