The Roots, Common - Universe At War lyrics

When you and I verse at war, motherfucker
We gonna do this Chi-town style
Illadelph, you know how we get down
You know the business illadelph, Illinois
Bringin' it straight to your chest
Comin' thru with the ill convoy
Yes, sir, hah, yeah lieutenant with the Com
Break it down one, two
We about to drop the bomb, check it

When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone
You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or
When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone


You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or

Rappers, get on the mic talkin'
About cars and clothes soundin' like hoes
Ain't been exposed to the foes
The most disciples
I'm from the state that is ill
The rap son of man rotated down to Phil
To say what I feel, get it off my bird chest
My word becomes flesh
War, goin' on between the West and the East
Of the lands, niggas don't own a piece
Grease is the word
Murray slides some pimp oil to me
My lady friend sneaks my beer in the movie
Throw your hands in the air
If you the true and livin'
Beware - The New World Order
The devil's new religion
Sent my homie to the number two division
Sellin' bootlegged movies
Got my VCR on a oove' smoove'
Be at Fat Tuesday's
Drinkin' tropical and just sittin'
At a table with sophisticated bitches
Nah, that ain't nothin' I
Would call my mother
Nor do I call every nigga my brother
Gotta have Black Thought
It sorta B like Malik
So, don't Question a Brother, to The Roots
I get deep

Yo, enter the last era
Your scholarship into the world
Of politics and mascara
We operate within this artificial op-era
I bring hip-hop terror like the Führer
The Ace Ventura into the horror
Laboratory labor-er
Venture beyond the border
I'll struc ture a style
Destroy your whole aura
Plus, your a-drenalin'll rise
Before your eyes
Immortalize my image in the skies
Deceive the devil in disguise
My music I parenthesize, represent the wise
Through this be how we enterprise
Kid, no compromise
I'm thinkin' fast like Rama-
Dan, I wear your mind away like Alzheimer
I pull a mic up out my mama
Big up to Bahama-
Dia, a yo, this year we leavin' 'em in trauma
Then after me
I plan to leave behind the legacy
Or history of the family the Fifth Dynasty
For humanity to bear witness to
This Del-Val' sylla-ble stylist
You know the time, kid

When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone
You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or
When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone
You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or

Yo, the general flows
Kids compose on tablets
Expose how they was average and
They thoughts not rapid
Here comes the hot package through
Your block like traffic
The rock was type graphic
Now watch the mic blast it
Shootin' at the stars with
Emphatic rap static
See the mirror shatter from thoughts
I'm bustin' back at it
The Lieuten-ant, the eleph-ant
Sippin' automatic mic rippin' Asiatic
Architects out to have it
The turn of the century
The planet's like a penitentiary exaggerated
Niggas is livin' highly medicated
I Used To Love HER, now she violated
Hip-hop holocausts and camps
Old champs are concentrated
They outdated and incarcerated
Loved and appreciated, hated and very debated
For every career created, one's eliminated
And that's the way the balance of
Yin and Yang is related, fa' real!

Every block is divine
Niggas swing on in a safari
Wild niggas, like I'm high on latari
Some let the block block they mind
If they could see what I see
Get out the city for a sec
Be at the places I be
Hey! I'mma be back on the deck
Openin' businesses in places
For you to cash yo' cheque
My neck of the woods ain't all good
Ain't all bad
You can live in the 'burbs, and still get had
The sad part about it niggas
Had houses on the lake
They tryin' to move us out
The land we ain't appreciate
For peace we skate
Crackers be rollerbladin' on hate
Call each other "Cuz" 'cause of how we relate
I seen weight turn into
Cadillacs with dopeman plates
Through the wind and blow-ups
Is how niggas communicate
Harmonizin' through beepers and reefer
The city got my peoples in a sleeper
Talk is gettin' cheaper

When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone
You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or
When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone
You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or
When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone
You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or
When you & I verse at war
And your verse at core for
What you thought before
Steppin' up into a zone
You should never explore
The next step or level of
The whole concept or