[Black Thought]
C'mon.. and yes y'all
You are now in tune to the sounds..

of the legendary.. foundation

Yeah, you go

Hey you listeners, stop what you're doin and
set it in motion, it's the next movement
You listeners, stop what you're doin and

set it in motion, it's the next movement

Word up, we got the HOT-HOT music, The HOT MUSIC [1X]

The HOT-HOT music, the HOT music [3X]

Yo, one, two, one-two one-two

That's how we usually start, once again it's the Thought
The Dalai Lama of the mic, the prime minister Thought
This directed to whoever in listening range

Yo the whole state of things in the world bout to change
Black rain fallin from the sky look strange
The ghetto is red hot, we steppin on flames

Yo, it's inflation on the price for fame
and it was all the same, but then the antidote came
The Black Thought, ill syllablist, out the Fifth

This heavyweight rap %#@! I'm about to lift
LIKE, a phyllum lift up it's seed to sunlight
I plug in the mic, draw like a gunfight

I never use a cordless, or stand applaudless
Sippin cholorophyll out of ill silver goblets
I'm like a faucet, monopoly's the object

There ain't no way to cut this tap, you got ta get wet
Your head is throbbin and I ain't said %#@! yet
The Roots crew, the next movement, c'mon!


And yes y'all
You are now in tune to the sounds

of the legendary, foundation, check it out, uh

Testin, yo, you go

Hey you listeners, stop what you're doin and
set it in motion, it's the next movement
You listeners, stop what you're doin and

set it in motion, it's the next movement

Word up, we got the HOT-HOT music, the HOT music [1X]

The HOT-HOT music, the HOT music [3X]

Word up, the formation of words to fit

That's what I usually disturb you with
A lot of rappers never heard of this, or know half the time it is
You doubt the Illa-Fifth, what could you accomplish?

Whether they skywriting your name, or you anonymous
You be speechless, with stinging sinuses
The Roots royal highnesses through your monitors

I tilt my crown, then blow down a diamond kiss
You need to buy a CD and stop rewindin this
I'm the finalist, shinin like a rugged amethyst

And at your music conference, I'm the panelist
Listen close to my poetry, I examine this
like an !@#^yst, to see if you can handle this

Check it out
You, got the groove, emcees
freeze, stand still, nobody move

unless you dealin with The Next Movement
The P-Phi-D we be the mon-u-ment
I live my life nice, but I'm not too bent

You theatrical as a Broadway play, this ain't Rent
One hundred percent, straight out the Ba!@&(t
Spreading this across a planet on some next %#@!

How many people feelin this love music? C'mon

Yo, you go

Hey you listeners, stop what you're doin and
set it in motion, it's the next movement
You listeners, stop what you're doin and

set it in motion, it's the next movement

Yo, we got the HOT-HOT music, the HOT music [1X]
The HOT-HOT music, the HOT music [7X]