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Chorus: Black Thought: (2X)
You can`t front, we comin with the shots to pump
We got more cuz it`s what you want
Thump it in your section and throughout your section
In your area, throughout your whole section, yo...

Black Thought:
Y`all know the dynasty, the Roots repertoire
The lieutenant from the reservoir, serve the spar
The injurar, preditar of a competitar
I send MCs where the paramedics are
At first, I`m like "nah", I`m nonchalant from afar
Then strike to cut the fake rap star jugular
With irregular balance of the cat burgla-rar
Known to parlay with Garcia Vega cigars
I know the flavor because me and the thugs minds are mutual
We congruent, lay on the corner with the trauma unit
I`m from the lab where the bomb`s distibuted
So never try to duplicate the skills executed
Son you`d get electrocuted from the worldwide reputed
Shine like nickel heat that blow your mind when I shoot it
Some know me as the man that`s from the Roots crew
Others as the bad lieutenant of Snyder Avenue
We go an eye for an eye
Behead like a samurai that`ll command the dynasty until he die
Who will imply that I lack a-biliti?
Make your words known, amplify the u-tiliti
I`m crooked like the "I" on a toxic malt liquor
The land whipper, the Dom Perignon champ sipper
The fifth`ll bring it all together like the zipper on a butter leather
The bad lieu a bring the bad weather
So to whoever got riff, let it rest
Reflect, then recollect on the way it was set
It`s the veteran architect that flows with the rhythm of sex
Be on the low shotgun in the Lex
With my man low to flex
I`m restin where they handle the Tecs
And the lyrical vandal is next flow
So my man, my mizza, my man
M-ilitant, what`s the master plan?
Once again...

chorus:

Malik B.
Peep the oratory, niggaz bore me with theatrics
Moms listen to they daughter story about my packets
The adverse is on your table, stabilize emotion
A soldier at ease, but on post of up most in
Brag and boast in my anecdotes that choke
Invade your whole terrain, you feel the pain provoke
When I breaststroke your wavelength of intensity
My alliance bring forth to you an entity
Your whole vicinity, I contaminate with hate
Got no time to debate, but hold up wait, sit straight
It`s in mil, the elicit, you violate, you get a ticket
MCs you can`t tell I expel, you get evicted
>From out your misery, serve your ass with my delivery
Allah makes the ground you steppin on shivery
Permanent tears run through your thoughts you queers
It`s all upstairs, where there`s a crowd, table and chairs
For years, been on the mic, I`m like a dike with stairs
When I strike, I stay severe, niggaz stay low in they glare
>From over here, my Range Rover square to blast offside
Switch the pitch from southpaw to unorthodox
I shock your brain with the miscellaneous
Who beez the zaniest...nigga with words that are spontaneous?

Black Thought:
A yo, the purpose mainly is to generate the Luther Van
Lyrical contraband, controllin your command and...

chorus:

Black Thought:
All the way live from 2-1-5, all the way live from the 6-1-0
Gettin cash, get the gusto
One time, it`s the dynasty flow
Runnin it down the line, it`s another
Yeah, you in tune to another ill
5th dynasty production baby (fading out)

Release History

06 March 1997

Illadelph Halflife

1. Intro (0:37)
2. Respond/react (5:11)
3. Section (4:18)
4. Panic!!!!!!! (1:27)
5. It Just Don't Stop (4:36)
6. Episodes (5:58)
7. Push up Ya Lighter (1:58)
8. What They Do (5:15)
9. ? Vs. Scratch (The Token Dj Cut) (1:50)
10. Concerto of The Desperado (4:00)
11. Clones (4:54)
12. Universe at War (4:57)
13. No Alibi (5:26)
14. Dave Vs. Us (0:53)
15. No Great Pretender (4:28)
16. The Hypnotic (4:53)
17. Ital (The Universal Side) (4:56)
18. One Shine (5:42)
19. The Adventures in Wonderland (4:36)
20. Outro (0:16)

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2000

Instrumental Album

1. Distortion to Static (4:18)
2. What They Do (5:15)
3. Proceed II (5:48)
4. Concerto of The Desperado (4:00)
5. Adrenaline! (4:29)
6. Clones (4:54)
7. Da Lesson, Part I (5:13)
8. Section (4:18)
9. Da Lesson, Part III (3:59)
10. U.N.I.verse At War (4:47)
11. Respond/react (5:11)
12. Sweetback (Au Natural) (4:11)
13. Represent (3:11)
14. Proceed Without A Pause (4:03)
15. Distortion To Static (At Ease Remix) (4:26)

2000

Instrumentals Album

1. Distortion to Static (4:18)
2. What They Do (5:15)
3. Proceed II (5:48)
4. Concerto of The Desperado (4:00)
5. Adrenaline! (4:29)
6. Clones (4:54)
7. Da Lesson I (5:16)
8. Section (4:18)
9. Da Lesson III (It's Over Now) (4:01)
10. U.N.I.verse At War (4:47)
11. Respond/react (5:11)
12. Sweetback (Au Natural) (4:11)
13. Represent (3:11)
14. Proceed Without A Pause (4:03)
15. Distortion To Static (At Ease Remix) (4:26)

0000-00-00

Live Vol. 2

1. Roots Freestyle
2. No Alibi (5:26)
3. The Message
4. Section (4:18)
5. Return Of Raphael
6. Trife Life
7. Jam
8. Motherless Child
9. Clones (4:54)
10. Push up Ya Lighter (1:58)
11. Concerto Of The Desparado (Using The Firm's "Affirmative Action" Underscore)

1999

Things Fall A Preview

1. Distortion to Static (4:18)
2. Dynamite! (4:48)
3. Don't See Us (5:22)
4. Section (4:18)
5. Push up Ya Lighter (1:58)
6. Concerto of The Desperado (4:00)
7. Double Trouble (6:23)
8. Without a Doubt (4:15)
9. Good Music (4:08)
10. Leonard I-V (4:06)
11. Popcorn Revisited (4:06)
12. Adrenaline! (4:29)
13. Clones (4:54)
14. Next Movement
15. 100% Dundee (3:56)
16. Love Of My Life