{"id":3603,"date":"2014-04-14T23:45:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T23:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2020-05-09T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T19:59:50","slug":"roots-manuva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=3603","title":{"rendered":"Roots Manuva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GaSNJ87Tl-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rootsmanuva.jpg\" alt=\"rootsmanuva\" width=\"227\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rootsmanuva.jpg 227w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rootsmanuva-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rodney Hylton Smith, better known by his stage name <strong><a title=\"roots manuva\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsmanuva.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roots Manuva<\/a>,<\/strong> is a British rapper from Stockwell, South London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is currently signed to Big Dada, an independent record label distributed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ninja_Tune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ninja Tune<\/a>. It was started by reputed hip hop journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Ashon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will Ashon<\/a> in 1997.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2022\u2192<a href=\"http:\/\/genius.com\/search?q=roots+manuva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/genius.com\/search?q=roots+manuva<\/a>\u21d0<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u2207&nbsp; &nbsp;&#8216;The Falling&#8217; &nbsp;\u21d3<\/span><\/h4>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\">[Verse 1]<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Guns, bitches, hoes, crack<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Death and disease, and a baseball bat<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>S-T-Ds that have no name<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Down at the clinic with a face full&#8217;a shame<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Russian Roulette with a naked flame<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Dangerously slow but in the fast lane<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>A big nose bleed and a bag of cocaine<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Just got the news about the tumour in my brain<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>But we don&#8217;t care so we sniff it all the same<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Caught my best friend sleepin&#8217; with my girlfriend, Jane<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Now I&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; of a way to get them slain<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>***assins for hire, they shall get paid<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Two-G, Three-G, what-ever it costs<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>None of those fools shoulda got me crossed<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>I&#8217;m just about ready for some treachorous fame<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Ten grenades on the plane, whoops, another Dunblane<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hAJ-Bdm-igw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">[Verse 2]<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Mass murderin&#8217;, brains on the floor<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You&#8217;re dead &#8216;cause I said you shouldn&#8217;t live no more<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You done made me, lose my cool<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Where&#8217;s my tool?&nbsp; Who&#8217;s the bigger fool?<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Road rage, pavement rage, all kinds of rage<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You&#8217;ll be lucky if you get to see some old age<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Every other day&#8217;s a good day to die<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Best be careful, if you&#8217;s love your life<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You don&#8217;t know nothin&#8217;, you don&#8217;t see nothin&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You don&#8217;t be nothin&#8217;, you don&#8217;t do nothin&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>but we all got to be something, and somebody<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>but everybody here can&#8217;t be that rich<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>You know the sayin&#8217; &#8211; \u00abLife&#8217;s a bitch\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>I got my finger on the trigger with a nervous twitch<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Keep your mouth shut, help me dig this ditch<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t you be, a stupid bitch<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #003300;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">[Verse 3]<\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>I took a blunt knife, and cut a piece of my heart<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>That&#8217;s my sacrifice, my wayward device<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>it sound mad though, my self-mutilation like<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Doctor Foster and his very first patients<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>God&#8217;s unhappy &#8216;cause we man&#8217;s praisin&#8217; himself<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Plannin&#8217; to get to heaven with that earthly wealth<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Blood money, grudge money, no-body budge money<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Mass futility, souls on the guillotine<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Meantime I unravel, callin&#8217; Jimmy Saville<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>\u00abCome fix my epitome, I bid to leave this bitterness\u00bb<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u2666 &nbsp;&#8216;(Brand new second-hand) Movements&#8217; &nbsp;\u2193<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wUwDTdeCNoE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I bring you tents and girth to this homegrown range<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Bona fide what you hear, tis the sound of pain<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">But pain leads to gain so we dare not stagnate<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">We elevate to that next state, motion divine<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Glisten like crystal ball and stand tall<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">With this knowledge and overstanding<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Enterprise landing, bringing dem new brands of buff<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Yes, we come proper with potency<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Ain&#8217;t no blood in my body, it&#8217;s liquid soul in my vein<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I dance on a thin line of sane and deranged<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">And it&#8217;s all criss once I get neatly in the cipher<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Chat like pickney to the piper that pied<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">As this natural mystic blows through the air<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">These lessons of life become crystal clear<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Precision of my vision is ital<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Separating sharks from the blessed is vital<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Now I can smell a rat coming from a mile round the corner<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">One time I bored ya, twice you can&#8217;t couf<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">No, we won&#8217;t stop rebuke thee<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">You satanics, you fools can&#8217;t recruit me<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Not now while there&#8217;s<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">[Chorus]<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Movements fi make, typhoons grew<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Strong and cold-sheist them a still coast through . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I&#8217;ll slap the bacon out your mouth, dance upon your sarnie<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Rolling with Jah bredren dem, God-blessed army<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">How the hell you gon stop this tide from steady coming<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Run and catch in tune with the elements<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">At speed we proceed, traction for action<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Hot 125, government goons get dashed to the side<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Too big to slide now, though they try to disguise<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">I can still recognize devilworks when I see it<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Weakheart disciples keep weakheart friends<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Always had a hate for what their weakhearts defend<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">They fiend for that crack, ain&#8217;t no one to tax<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">We might run home and smoke a brown bag of seed<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Best believe that these times is treacherous<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">And I know not how else I&#8217;m supposed to act<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">But stand close to culture roots-fi<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">See me getting deft with that two-step shuffle<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Haggling others who for the cause<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Reigning with that roots type terror<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Freaking at your weakhearty era but<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">We build, move and prove that we don&#8217;t suffer fools<\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/address>\n<address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Movements fi make, typhoons grew<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Strong and cold-sheist them a still coast through . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<address><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/address>\n<\/address>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">\u2666&nbsp; &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wbuSdXKtJX4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">The Witness<\/span><\/a>&#8216;&nbsp; \u21d3 <\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ltP7L16A8Hs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Taskmaster burst the bionic zit-splitter<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> We lean all day and some say that ain&#8217;t productive<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> That depend upon the demons that you&#8217;re stuck with<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Cause right now, I see clearer than most<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> I sit here contending with this cheese on toast<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> I feel the pain of a third world famine<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Segue, we count them blessings and keep jamming<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> It&#8217;s him scumbag, scum of the earth, his worth was nil<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Until he gained the skill of tongues<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> From fifteen years young &nbsp;straight to my greyback self<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> I stay top shelf material, &nbsp;jerk chicken, jerk fish<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Breakaway slave, bliss<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Generate gees and then we stash &#8216;em in the Swiss<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Fools can&#8217;t see this, audio pistols<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> A fistful of hip hop banzai, progressing in the flesh<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Esoteric quotes, most frightening<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Duppy took a hold of my hand while I was writing<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Let go me ting, &nbsp;let go me hand<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> I summon up the power of banana clan!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><em>[Chorus &nbsp;x4]<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> <strong>Witness the fitness &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>The Cruffiton liveth<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> <strong> One hope, one quest . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Swigging that beetroot juice, now we dipping and boost<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Set the spirit dem loose, go head go slash up the noose<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> We conclusive proof of both the truth, the right<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Cause whether we hitchhike or push bike or travel kind of trash<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Manifest that with wholesome roots rap, manifest that, yeah!<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> I do my same way, ain&#8217;t nothing else I know<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Gone up in the life with this here rag-and-bone flow<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Squeeze the pain from my belly and set my soul free<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Travel over ocean, land and sea, &nbsp;face nuff stress and difficulty<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Flung back from the brink, &nbsp;gwan in kinda stink<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> We don&#8217;t give a frigg about what dem fools think<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Frigg your network, our debt work a speak for itself<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Proof of the trophy and champion belt<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Come sun, come rain, come hailstone pelt<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><strong>Witness the fitness &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>The Cruffiton liveth<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> <strong>One hope, one quest . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\">Bwana Smith with some old time shit<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Let the whole world know we on some off-key tip<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Mega-manic when time the pressure start lick<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> By the hook or by the crook, by the poop or by the kick<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> He&#8217;s sickly cryptic, spitting that code<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> And most proud to present that Cruffiton mode<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> And it shows that they bros done seen a few sleights<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Life throws scenarios, reality bites<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> We in collision with the beast<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Lost we religion and we can&#8217;t get no peace<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Idiot weakhearts want to take I for chief<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Stoop to their level and we plotting cold grief<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> But we should know that discipline maketh the gees<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Separation of the DAT from the rap, that&#8217;s a must<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Proceed set speed with the Cruffiton touch<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333300;\"> Proceed set speed..Cruffiton, y&#8217;all<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333300;\"><em>[Chorus &nbsp;&#8230; &nbsp;x4]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">\u221e &nbsp; w\/ &nbsp;The Cinematic Orchestra \u2193 &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S-rZdfZfMPw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">&#8216;All Things To All Men&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rcxnOO9pZHU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">And now it seems as if we&#8217;re used to the shegree<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">We made our beds and now we hate where these beds be<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Took nothing at all to part this Red Sea<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">I&#8217;m a shackled child, singing the good song of freedom<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">They&#8217;ve got no pride &#8211; they interrupt our grieving<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Tear drops dropping for the pain of the world<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">My best friend dies when she was just a young girl<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Left me here to fend for myself &#8211;&nbsp;Now the pain never leaves<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">We just learn to cope so when the devil needs hangin&#8217;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Will you tie up the rope and shout, \u00abPull\u00bb?<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Let&#8217;s put an end to this bull &#8211;&nbsp;Zen thing<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">How many years before we practice what we preach<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">How many tears before we truly clinch the peak<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Only to find that there is no honey on the moon<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Official goon with the unofficial croon<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>I&#8217;m all things to all men<\/strong><\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>All of the women, all the children<\/strong><\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Just say when and I&#8217;ll take you to my tardis<\/strong><\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong>Who&#8217;s the hardest, who&#8217;s the hardest . . .<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Look at the monster you make<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Look at the monster you pay<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">But you claim no responsibility<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">But you claim not<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">We&#8217;re searching for Jesus<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">But I&#8217;ll be damned if I&#8217;ll be crucified<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">By 10,000 spies, compulsive lies<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">They hate me, they love me, they hate me<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">&#8216;Cause I&#8217;m all things to all men<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">All of the women, all the children<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Just say when and I&#8217;ll take you to my tardis<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">Who&#8217;s the hardest, who&#8217;s the hardest<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 id=\"watch-headline-title\" class=\"yt\" style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222; text-align: right;\"><strong><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title yt-uix-expander-head\" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Roots Manuva - 'Stolen Youth' (Radio Edit)\">\u2022\u2192&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EHfIjSMNEIU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Stolen Youth&#8217;<\/a> \u21d4 [<a href=\"http:\/\/rapgenius.com\/Roots-manuva-stolen-youth-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lyrics<\/a>]<\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">\u2666 &nbsp;GDMFSOB &nbsp;\u2193 &nbsp;(UNKLE Uncensored DJ Shadow Remix_2003)<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0CpWOo7ODzg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Now this happens to be what they might call &nbsp;or what they might term a remix. &nbsp;A rethink, a rejiggle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">So who&#8217;s that?<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> I see many lights before me&#8230;&nbsp;Many lights!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Dark shadows<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Nice Unkles&nbsp;and a Rooty-toot Manuva<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Swell then! &nbsp;A shizzle<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> More bass.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Find me a space,<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Find me a space on, on the beat, yeah!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Round chemist, menace<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Who that met off for this five whore<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Totally soft,&nbsp;From jokey-jammin&#8217;&nbsp;Now we plannin&#8217;<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Now we mannin&#8217; that mission now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Rediss and dismantle, my spambo<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Knockin&#8217; you down, come catch this sound<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Heavy weight now, takin&#8217; you there<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> You made me take wow, wait now<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Walk to the light, that baptism<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Medicinal positionin&#8217;<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Visit now we fishin&#8217; in my jin sin in acid<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> See my dick&#8217;s never flacid<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Tax machine<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Leanin&#8217; and mean<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Sweat &#8216;til it hurts<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Splurt my bambino<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> My Brian or my Eno<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Oops-my-daisy,<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Can&#8217;t see your face never faze me<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Love for day my oxi<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Sonny is he crazy?<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Yes y&#8217;all, chicks in the bathroom<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\">They hippy high heels with the lippy<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Now we sick to the back tooth<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Uncouth, corner the room<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> They&#8217;ll cut root now<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Sonic yarp youth<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> See the light, see the truth now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>You little piece of dick brained, horse shit,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>slime sucking son of a whore!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em> You live with a cocksucking mynx, you scumbag, <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>you low-lifed motherfucker!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Badder boy, ship ahoy<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Ghosts how we do this<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> We fucked up, we tucked up<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Leave me to thief police car<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Ride don&#8217;t know me<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Won&#8217;t you walk with me slowly?<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Yes y&#8217;all, you don&#8217;t got no time to be stood<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> One doosh, one toosh<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Irrigation, colonic<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> My trance for you, &#8216;tronic<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> We on it like a sonic<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> We done it &#8216;cos we dance from long time<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The prime<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Porky walky<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> See the codes on my<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> My walkie talkie<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Breaker one nine, breaker ten to we stage you<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">True up to the faith<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> &#8216;cause it just can&#8217;t be replaced<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Put a poem on that dark place<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> See it from that dump state<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Burn down that hate shootin&#8217;<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Practiced in the state<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> With that snake that I sting you<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> That statement stage will<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> &#8216;cause most of the time we keep it all for real now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><strong>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch . . .<\/strong><br><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">Most of the time we keep it all for real now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">G.D.M.F.S.O.B.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <em>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch, goddamn!<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> G.D.M.F.S.O.B.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <em>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Everybody move!<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> More bass,&nbsp;<em>bass, bass, bass&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch<br>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&#8216;cause most of the time we keep it all for real now<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em><strong>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch &#8230; Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch<\/strong><br><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">G.D.M.F.S.O.B.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <em>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch, Goddamn!<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> G.D.M.F.S.O.B.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> &#8216;cause most of the time we keep it all for real now<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> G.D.M.F.S.O.B.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <em>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch, Goddamn!<\/em><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> G.D.M.F.S.O.B.<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> <em>Goddamn motherfuckin&#8217; son of a bitch!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">U.N.K.L.E<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> UNKLE<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Shadow<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Roots Manuva<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Shwell then &#8211; Well then!<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Yes y&#8217;all!<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Shwell then &#8211; Well then!<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> Can you tell them?<\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399;\"> &#8216;cause if you don&#8217;t tell them, somebody will!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Goddaaaamn, motherfuckin&#8217;, son of a biiiitch!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\">That&#8217;s how we like it now.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rodney Hylton Smith, better known by his stage name Roots Manuva, is a British rapper from Stockwell, South London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is currently signed to Big Dada, an independent record label distributed by Ninja Tune. 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