No Alibi - The Roots

If you seen it or heard it, maybe probably I did it maybe or maybe not, I'll admit what I committed

exhibit the truth because I’m living proof why

I had no disguises, no verdicts, no alibis

(Malik B)

Look into my window, tell me what you see

m-ill-i-tant school of philosophy

when niggaz get dealt wit mental velocity

connect my sentences and thoughts like apostrophes

we represent hypocracy, it ain’t no stopping me until I fulfill the 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's quick to pull it?

the anti-bullshitter, islamic extortioner

you’re the forfeiter unfortunately

niggaz who wanna gyp me I cause humidity so come and get me

I’m simply, the cat to lay back

I chill and what you

the silent ninja

intends to injure, now I got you

sanity was lost so now I’m found insane

I’m seeking 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, niggaz they wear 'em like a bangel

check it out

one time for your mind like that

(Black Thought)

Look into my window tell me what you see

lieutenant university of philosophy

while you not possibly escaping what I’m meditating

my shackle of thought tackle you while I’m educating

your dome’s resonating from inhalation of darkness

while I spark the smart shit from what you waiting

since you waiting me at the top of the pile

wild delaware file, pennsylvanian, sub-terranean style

step up into my crevice and taste the medicine of the champagne

king like evelyn leaving you leveled and

sabatoged, it's all camaflouge like the devil and guns

and coke peddling, olympic medaling flashback

that of a war veteran, blast at the programmer bringing 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, reacting off of intuition

continuously alert, no intermission

if your ears hurt, you shouldn’t listen

that means you artificial and my style’ll poison your brain tissue

your inanes are crippled once the gamma rays hit you

my grains habitual and I should never go against

the ritual I’ve been mastering ever since

I was among the flavor youth, remain sharper than a saber tooth

my deliverance is self-evidance

vi-tal, lyri-cal science

NOW!!!

(Black Thought)

Who knows what you snorted

or who support what you recorded

but don’t get it distorted, in this orbit you’re aborted

???, shit's imported, exported

styles, they get sported my paragraphs aortic behold

the illest medely got you in the choke hold

illadel epilouge, top league plus plush in Vogue

slice tongues from your area code

student of life with 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 reptillion rooms, the sextillion tons

your armageddon gwan come from the sun

untouchable cuts that’s unclutchable for some to understand

so y’all sit back and wonder damn

I like to take this time to show you who I am original man, Black Thought, aka lieutenant

Malik B’ll be the m-ill-i-tant

known to vanish in the atmosphere

we up there like the stratos