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The Roots - Things Fall Apart - Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
Things Fall Apart
01. Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
02. Table of Contents, Parts 1 & 2
03. The Next Movement
04. Step Into the Realm
05. The Spark
06. Dynamite!
07. Without a Doubt
08. Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ New
09. Double Trouble
10. Act Too (The Love of My Life)
11. 100% Dundee
12. Diedre vs. Dice
13. Adrenaline!
14. 3rd Acts: ? vs. Scratch 2… Electric Boogaloo
15. You Got Me
16. Don’t See Us
17. The Return to Innocence Lost
18. Act Fore… The End?
And you are all
But we don't even come to see our own, man (take it from us)
Listen, Freddy, listen (I shall, whoa)
You know if we had to depend upon black people to eat
We would starve to death (everybody wake up, it seemed easy)
I mean, you've been out there, you on the bandstand
You look out there, what do you see? (There is no pretenders)
You see Japanese, you see, you see West Germans
You see, you know, Slobovic, anything but (go ahead with yourself)
Except our people, man it makes no sense
It incenses me that our own people don't realize our own heritage, our own culture
This is our music
That's bullshit
Why? That's all bullshit
Everything, everything you just said is bullshit
You're complaining about- I'm talking about the audience
That's right, the people don't come
Because you grandiose motherfuckers don't play (then distort up in your face like)
Shit that they like
If you played the shit that they liked then the people would come
Simple as that
Inevitably, hip-hop records are treated as though they are disposable
They are not maximized as product even, you know, not to mention as art