The Roots, Q-Tip - Ital (The Universal Side) lyrics

Everybody reppin' from the Illadelph side
(From the Illadelph side)
From the New York side
(From the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)
Everybody reppin'
From the Illadelph side (Illadelph side)
From the New York side
(From the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)

(Abstract) I wanna be able to reach an MC
And reach a little child in the same degree
And my elders excel i mean
What the hell? We might as
Well bridge these gaps
And all, before we fall in the fire

There's a million MC's up on
A plan they call real, tryin' to set it
Profess mic techniques illegit
Inaccurate perceptions of reality embedded
In they mind thus, they rhyme I discredit
Check it out now!

I use my music
Implement it with jewels and sport tools
To inspire all these too-cool fools
Who say "Screw school"
'Cause they don't see the conspiracy
That's put here to trap you and me
But we can get out

Y'all know the Bad Lieutenant
Be on some whole 'nother
Other finesse genetic
They say I get it from my mother
So it's inheredit-ary
And very necessary to shine
Legendarily, heavily refined

Contemporaries like The Roots is
So rad, it's like, dag!
Which bag did they come out of?
And how can I get in it to win it?
Like a raffle ticket pickin'
If you feelin' stuck then guess who did the
Stickin' of ya feelings, y'all

I got this Ital style up-close and personal
The first I find to violate
I shall retal-iate
With realism for their whole lo-cal to relate
We on point like decimal, Abstract, now!

Emceein' while I'm breathin'
(Emceein' while I'm breathin')
Emceein' is believin'
(Is believin' that what?)
That you can host a ceremony and
The dose is never phony in fact
It's quite therapeutic like a
B12 hypodermic needle so, shoot it!

Lyrically elicit, up steps the explicit most
Wicked 7-digit mic wizard
My tongue lash out and strike with it
Ya slightly might miss it
When I blast through ya section or
District to rip it like

Everybody reppin' from the Illadelph side
(From the Illadelph side)
From the New York side
(From the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)
Everybody reppin'
From the Illadelph side (Illadelph side)
From the New York side
(From the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)

In my formative years
By my peers I was influenced
Until the instruments of time
Killed the congruence
I peeped the blueprints on how
To make true sense
Of MC's which are a nuisance
I know just what to do
Since I'm on another lev'
Brothers is fakin' jax
Think they ready for the rev'
But they got a lot to learn
To make they thoughts long-term
'Cause they short-cuts'll make a wrong turn
Probably
Timelessly, I construct the fearsome
To rip ya eardrum for many years to come
Profession-al style
Thinkin' rational to move wise
So hard, it's a wonder y'all alive

And still breathin'
Niggas is dead and not even
Perpetratin' real life
This shit kicked is real trife
They fake bleedin'
It's obvious that they needin'
Attention feedin'
They cold actin' like heathens
When mics is picked up
Obscene scenes is kicked up
Like women with the grip up
Drinkin' Moët 'til they hiccup
Fellas hustlin', pickin' bricks up
Fantasizin' about the illest stick-up
But rip up the jam and
We'll be truly impressed
On stage, you won't need ya tef' vest (What?)
Only a mic and a mic test, and at your best
You get blessed by the fans who profess
That they can relate to
The trials you tribulate
Or the pains you endure
'cause some cats is pure
Tell horrors that are true, but see
Cats like you
Y'all fake joints just to get a woo hoo
The tear jerker, you like a miracle worker
Whose miracles just ran out
I think it's time you pan out
Or just plain fade 'cause, yo, you played
We 'bout to drop it on
You like the Everglades like

Everybody reppin' from the Illadelph side
(From the Illadelph side)
From the New York side
(From the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)
Everybody reppin'
From the Illadelph side (Illadelph side)
From the New York side
(From the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)

Everybody reppin' from the Illadelph side
(From the Illadelph side)
To the New York side (To the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)
Everybody reppin'
From the Illadelph side (Illadelph side)
To the New York side (To the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)
Everybody reppin' from the Illadelph side
(From the Illadelph side)
To the New York side (To the New York side)
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)
Everybody reppin' to the East Coast side
(To the Illadelph side)
To the West Coast side
To the Universal side (To the Universal side)

Everybody reppin' from the Illadelph side
To the New York side to the Universal side