Without a Doubt

By The Roots

On The Next Movement

Released on February 23, 1999

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[Intro: Black Thought & Lady B]

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

Yes, yes, ah

Come on, come on, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah

Another one of those Saturday nights, y'all

Yeah, take heed

Yeah, check it out, come on

You're now rockin' with the best, uh

Without a doubt, take heed, y'all

Come on, yeah, uh

Uh, yo, about to give you what you need, y'all

Without a doubt


[Verse 1: Black Thought]

Check it out now, it's the type cerebral

World-renowned, illustrious, illegal

My musical infection

Bubblin' within your zone like champagne

Known as the Fifth campaign

Thought be doin' his damn thang

Bent like a boomerang, tryna maintain

I'm both yin and yang from Mi Kan Lang

With your lady hittin' me up, I'm never answering

Let her miss me, see me, then she all tryna kiss me

Talkin' 'bout, "I dig you, Tariq, the way you twist me"

Meanwhile, she comin' home tipsy, all grinnin'

And what you used to fit in before, you now swimmin'

Just take a dive, P5 deep, the team winnin'

Takin' hip-hop back to the beginnin'

'Cause emcees are pretendin'

I slap your sound out the sky like I'm goaltendin'

Bring your career to an ending

Enter the next era, transcending for real

Know what I'm sayin'? If not, then, man, listen

For you to try to fuck with the Fifth, that's ambition

I let y'all know the time indeed, y'all need to—


[Chorus: Lady B]

Take heed, y'all

Get a little P5D, y'all

Straight from the town of Philly, y'all

We about to give you what you need, y'all

Without a doubt

Take heed, y'all

Get a little P5D, y'all

Straight from the town of Philly, y'all

We about to give you what you need, y'all

Without a doubt


[Verse 2: Black Thought]

Yo, I control the stadium like the law, long arm

Warn, ring the alarm, 'cause here The Roots come

The funk's all ready for whoever want some

Your album get split like a lump sum

No doubt, under this influence of the Falcon

Millennium spaceship, totally wasted

Schoolly D classic, though I vocally laced it

Taste this swerve on a regular basis

Servin' y'all wherever the place is

Blowin' connoisseur quality in my competitor's faces

This is without doubt, your lady pass out (Yo)

This Illa-Fifth Twilight Zone, you ass out

Shout to my brothers on back route

Whippin' the short that's smacked out, dig it

Strump this in your cassette deck, hip-hop has not left yet

I sent a verse in the mail like a death threat

The critically-acclaimed composer, stand over

Whichever mute minuscule mic holder

You never knew the real before, yo, I'll show you

You need to make your thoughts more sober, think it over


[Chorus: Lady B]

Take heed, y'all

Get a little P5D, y'all

Straight from the town of Philly, y'all

We about to give you what you need, y'all

Without a doubt

Take heed, y'all

Get a little P5D, y'all

Straight from the town of Philly, y'all

We about to give you what you need, y'all

Without a doubt

Take heed, y'all

Get a little P5D, y'all

Straight from the town of Philly, y'all

We about to give you what you need, y'all

Without a doubt

Take heed, y'all

Get a little P5D, y'all

Straight from the town of Philly, y'all

We about to give you what you need, y'all

Without a doubt


[Outro]

Yo, Black Thought, Kamal on the keys

Questlove rock, Shock on the M-I-C

The fifth Dynasty, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all

Glenn Hubbard, Malik B

The Godfather, Illa-Fifth in the place to be

It's the Roots Crew, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all

Black Thought, Kamal on the keys

Questlove rock, Shock on the M-I-C

Fifth Dynasty, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all

Glenn Hubbard, Malik B

The Godfather, Illa-Fifth in the place to be

It's the Roots Crew, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all

Black Thought, Kamal on the keys

Questlove rock, Shock on the M-I-C

The fifth Dynasty, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all, y'all

Glenn Hubbard, Malik B

Godfather, Illa-Fifth