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Artist : THE ROOTS
 Long Time | THE ROOTS
 
[Chorus] 
Oooh 
It's been a long time 
Since I been back around the way 
It's been a long time 
Let it spin let spin let it spin 
Since I been back around your way 
It's been a long time 
Long time long time 
 
[Verse] 
[Black Thought] 
Struck by the luck of the draw 
Real life preservation 
What I'm hustling for 
My name black thought 
The definition of raw 
I was born in South Philly 
On a cement floor 
I had nothing at all 
Had to knuckle and brawl 
They swore I'd fall 
Be another brick in the wall 
Another life 
Full of love 
That lost 
That's silly 
This Philly 
Y'all really ain't stoppin 
The boy with the pen 
Like Willie 
On top of the hall 
Pure soul is what the city 
Most popular for 
Hear the tones 
That will ease you 
Smooth 
As Bunny Sigler's soundtrack 
Keepin your head boppin and all 
It's something in the water 
Where I come from 
They used to sing it on the corner 
Where I come from 
Making somethin outta nothing 
Because everybody fifty cents 
From a quarter 
Where I come from 
Yeah 
The streets ain't timid 
But I feel at home in it 
Gotta see a couple people 
I ain't got at 
In a minute 
Yeah 
You can take a brother outta South Philly 
Can't take it outta him really 
I forever represent it 
And it's 
 
[Chorus] 
 
[Peedi Peedi] 
Live and dirvet 
I don't need no mic check 
Remember mommy told me 
You ain't write that 
It started in the bathroom taking a dump 
Listening to Ultramagnetic 
Ego tripping you won't 
Pressure my word 
I'm the urban vision 
Of you chump 
Stomped on a different ground 
Sound second to none 
Synthesizers tweet 
To improvise your feet 
I calculated every lyric to arrive on a beat 
It's free 
Come get high on me 
Before a nine millimeter shell 
Hit my pelle pelle 
In the p 
Yeah 
It's somethin in the water 
Where I come from 
They used to sing it on the corner 
Where I come from 
Making somethin outta nothing 
Because everybody 
Fifty cents from a quarter 
Yo 
Where I come from 
It's just a natural reaction 
For crack to make it happen 
Let the pen ink sink 
Into the paper of the pad 
Think back 
When I was younger 
Ghetto could have took me under 
Young Peedi can't mess with North Philly 
Never had 
You don't know about me 
You ain't stroll my streets 
Look familiar 
I feel ya 
Longtime no see 
 
[Chorus] 
 
[Black Thought] 
Uhh 
Clap somethin 
But whatever you clap 
Clap to the record spinnin 
While I'm takin you back 
To the top paper era 
Baby big on that 
Picture the pool room 
Where the money getters was at 
And street people 
With feather in the cap 
Or their bossolino Pullin paper 
As if it's a small casino 
I was a young boy 
Sweepin the floors 
And runnin to stores 
But all those old heads 
Woudl talk to me About the way 
To clutch the eagle 
On a buck and truck 
And if I'm down 
How to get back up 
Just survival kid 
And it's a struggle worldwide 
I'm positive 
Shit the ghetto might as well 
Be the Gaza Strip 
You know where all the monsters is 
Street walkers 
You don't see no consciousness I'm coming back to where 
The core of the problem is 
We on the job again 
Y'all know what time it is 
 
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