Rock N Roll-Mos Def

[ti:Rock N Roll] [ar:Mos Def] [al:Black On Both Sides] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Rock N Roll - Mos Def [00:00.02]Written by：Dante Smith/L. Fernandez [00:00.03] [00:00.69]Make me wanna holla [00:01.57] [00:13.91]Alert the squad [00:15.01]Rock and roll [00:15.55] [00:18.94]Alert the squad [00:20.29]Huh my grandmama was raised on a reservation [00:24.59] [00:25.26]Huh my great grandmama was from a plantation [00:29.64]They sang songs for inspiration [00:31.98]They sang songs for relaxation [00:34.24]They sang songs to take their minds up off that [00:37.67]F**ked up situation [00:39.85]I am yes I am the descendant yes yes [00:45.25] [00:45.87]Of those folks whose backs got broke [00:49.25]Who fell down inside the gun smoke [00:51.97] [00:52.79]Black people chains on their ankles and feet [00:55.82] [00:57.62]I am descendants of the builders of your street [01:02.89] [01:04.06]Black people tenders to your cotton money [01:07.73] [01:08.69]I am hip hop [01:10.97] [01:12.49]It's heavy metal for the black people [01:14.47]I am rock and roll rock and roll rock 'n' roll [01:19.82] [01:20.53]Been here forever [01:22.29] [01:25.06]They just ain't let you know ha [01:28.26] [01:28.86]I said Elvis Presley ain't got no soul huh [01:32.48]Chuck Berry is rock and roll d**n right [01:34.72]You may dig on the rolling stones [01:36.49] [01:37.00]But they ain't come up with that style on they own uh uh [01:39.69]Elvis Presley ain't got no soul hell naw [01:42.36]Little Richard is rock and roll d**n right [01:44.67]You may dig on the rolling stones [01:46.40] [01:46.93]But they ain't come up with that sh*t on they own nah ah [01:49.63]Guess that's just the way sh*t goes [01:51.28] [01:51.83]You steal my clothes and try to say they yours yes they do [01:55.05]Cause it's a show filled with pimps and h*es [01:57.11]Trying to take everything that you made or control there they go [01:59.57]Elvis Presley ain't got no soul [02:01.64] [02:02.36]Bo diddley is rock and roll d**n right [02:04.49]You may dig on the rolling stones [02:06.72]But they ain't the first place the credit belongs [02:08.97]Say whoa oh don't take it [02:11.69]Oh we oh black music [02:13.96]Whoa oh don't take it [02:16.48]Oh we oh black music [02:18.86]Whoa oh Jimi Hendrix say [02:21.52]Oh we oh black music [02:23.84]Whoa oh Albert king and [02:26.38]Oh we oh and Motown [02:28.74] [02:29.81]I ain't trying to diss [02:31.22]But I don't be trying to f**k with limp biz kit [02:33.86]The f**k is on your mind [02:35.16]When I get down in my zone [02:36.46]I be rockin' bad brains and fish bone [02:38.49] [02:39.60]I ain't tryin' to slow your groove [02:40.98] [02:41.65]But that ain't the way I'm trying to move [02:43.26] [02:44.20]I don't turn on korn to get it on [02:46.38]I be playing Jimi Hendricks till the dawn [02:48.40] [02:49.76]That's my word is bond [02:50.84] [02:51.89]Sitting up on my front lawn [02:53.17] [02:54.42]Got the volume turned to ten [02:55.68] [02:56.62]Playing Albert king the best again black [02:58.37] [02:59.38]When the morning in the cooker [03:00.72] [03:01.52]Got to turn on some John Lee hooker [03:03.29] [03:04.08]When I want some rock and roll [03:05.50] [03:06.18]Go to Otis Rredding to get some soul [03:08.24]Say James Brown got plenty of soul [03:10.44] [03:11.02]James brown like to rock and roll [03:12.96] [03:13.73]He can do all the sh*t fo' sho' [03:15.39] [03:16.09]That Elvis Presley could never know black people [03:18.80]Said Kenny G ain't got no soul [03:21.09]John Coltrane is rock and roll uh huh [03:23.73]You may dig on the rolling stones [03:25.61]But they could never ever rock like Nina Simone [03:28.05]Say whoa oh don't take it [03:30.66]Oh wee oh black music [03:33.11]Whoa oh don't take it [03:35.66]Oh we oh black music [03:38.09]Whoa oh don't take it [03:40.70]Oh we oh black music [03:42.91] [03:47.05]Alert the squad [03:48.21] [03:49.08]Who am I huh [03:52.28]Get your punk a** up [03:53.56] [03:54.95]Elvis Presley ain't got no soul [03:56.47]Jimi Hendrix is rock and roll [03:57.77]You may dig on the rolling stones [03:59.12]But everything they did they stole [04:00.72]Elvis Presley ain't got no soul [04:02.18]Bo diddley is rock and roll [04:03.65]You may dig on the rolling stones [04:05.01]But we send their punk a** home [04:06.44]Who am I rock and roll [04:08.07]Who am I rock and roll [04:09.11]Who am I rock and roll [04:10.15]Who am I rock and roll [04:11.33]Who am I rock and roll [04:12.47]Who am I rock and roll [04:13.54]Who am I rock and roll [04:14.61]Who am I rock and roll [04:15.67]Who am I rock and roll [04:16.76]Who am I [04:17.89]Say rock and roll [04:19.61]Who am I rock and roll [04:20.89]Who am I rock and roll [04:22.32]Who am I rock and roll [04:23.75]Who am I rock and roll [04:25.30]Who am I rock and roll [04:26.78]Who am I rock and roll [04:28.31] [04:28.89]Get your punk a** up [04:30.47] [04:34.05]Company move [04:35.56] [04:39.61]For Harlem fort Greene Compton [04:41.48]East st louis detroit bo bo [04:43.76]Chicago bo bo bed stuy bo bo [04:46.43]Flatbush bo bo brownsville bo bo [04:49.10]East New York bo bo Newark New Jersey bo bo [04:51.34]Illadelphia cincinnati atlanta the dirty south [04:53.72]All towns get your punk a** up [04:56.04] [04:56.56]Rock and roll for the black people [04:58.21] [04:58.95]Hi ma [04:59.30] [05:00.74]Well that was just wonderful