The Roots - No Alibi lyrics

One-two, one-two, one-two, one-two
Check it, yeah, yeah

If you seen it or heard it, maybe
Probably I did it
Maybe or maybe not, I admit what I committed
Exhibit the truth because I'm
Livin' proof why
I had no disguise tryin' to vocalize

Dig it look through the window
Tell me what you see?
The M-Illatant school of philosophy
Where niggas get dealt wit' mental velocity
Connect my sentences and
Thoughts like apostrophes
You represent hypocrisy
It ain't no stoppin' me
Until I fulfill my term of my prophecy
My attitude is scarred by
This inner-city urban


Iller dolo stress on my brain
Just like a turban
Who get grazed by the bullet? Triggers
Who quick to pull it?
The anti-bullshitter, Islamic extortioner
You're the forfeiter unfortunately
Niggas who wanna gyp me, I cause humidity
So come and get me
I'm simply the cat to lay back
I chill and watch you
The silent ninja intends to injure
Now I gotchu
Sanity was lost, so now I'm found insane
I'm thinkin' streets to jeeps hours
Days to weeks
I even speak to geeks, I hold my fortune
It's sweet
I'm discreet in the streets, but that's
Just the way I play, though
I lay low
But over your head just like a halo
Hell's angel
These thoughts you cannot untangle
When I drop jewels, niggas
They wear it like a bangle check it out
One time for your mind like that

If you seen it or heard it, maybe
Probably I did it
Maybe or maybe not, I admit what I committed
Exhibit the truth because I'm
Livin' proof why
I had no disguise, no verdicts, no alibis
If you seen it or heard it, maybe
Probably I did it
Maybe or maybe not, I admit what I committed
Exhibit the truth because I'm
Livin' proof why
I had no disguise, no verdicts, no alibis

Dig it
Look into the window, tell me what you see?
Lieutenant university of philosophy
Where you not possibly escapin'
What I'm meditatin'
My shackle of thought tackle
You while I'm educatin'
Your dome resonatin' from
Inhalation of darkness
As I spark the smart shit
For which you’re waitin'
Situatin' me at the top of the pile
Wild Delaware Val'
Pennsylvanian sub-terranean style
Step up into my crevice and taste
The medicine of the Champagne
King like Evelyn
Leavin' you leveled and sabotaged
It's all camouflaged like the devil and guns
And coke peddlin', Olympic meddlin' flashback
That of a war veteran blast at
The programmer bringin' lashes
'cross your back on some accuracy of a
Brainwashed Bosnian troop
That swooped down through your
Roof without sound
On a lyrical Nat Turner mission
Reactin' off of intuition
Continuously alert, no intermission
If your ears hurt, you shouldn't listen
That mean you artificial
And my style'll poison your brain tissue
Gettin' maimed and crippled once the
Gamma rays hit you my grain's habitual
And I should never go against
The ritual I've been masterin' ever since
I was among the flavored youth
Remain sharper than a saber tooth
My deliverance is self-evidence
Vit-al, lyric-al science, now!

See, if you seen it or heard it, maybe
Probably I did it
Maybe or maybe not, I admit what I committed
Exhibit the truth because I'm
Livin' proof why
I had no disguise, no verdicts, no alibi
If you seen it or heard it, maybe
Probably I did it
Maybe or maybe not, I admit what I committed
Exhibit the truth because I'm
Livin' proof why
I had no disguise tryin' to vocalize, yeah

Yo, who knows what you snorted?
Or who support what you recorded?
But don't get it distorted, in this orbit
You're aborted
This authentic, sorted shit's imported
Exported styles, they get sported
My paragraphs’ aortic
Behold, the illest medley lock you
In a choke hold
Illadelph epilogue, top league, plush
Plus en vogue
Slice tongues from your area code
Student of life that's on
The rugged-exterior mode
Blind a devil with the bold
Black and gold shine
I walk the thin line and hold mine
Let the people respond
It's mind detect mind, swine decline
Let the power refine build like it's 1999
In this day and time
The reptilian roam the sextillion ton
Your Armageddon gwan come from the sun
Untouchable cuts that's unclutchable for
Some to overstand
So y'all sit back and wonder, "Damn!"
I'd like to take this time to
Tell you who I am
Original man, Black Thought AKA lieutenant
Malik B'll be the M-Illatant
Known to vanish in the atmosphere
We up there like the stratos word life

If you seen it or heard it, maybe
Probably I did it
Maybe or maybe not, I admit what I committed
Exhibit the truth because I'm
Livin' proof why
I had no disguise, and no alibi
So, if you seen it or heard it, maybe
Probably I did it
Maybe or maybe not, I admit what I committed
Exhibit the truth because I'm
Livin' proof why
I had no disguise tryin' to vocalize
We got no alibi