Grassroots


                                         Homebrew

Now I know, fools get their own when they chit chat 
Haven't heard yet but you can bet I'm not with that 
With that talk with the digi walk 
I stalk a bird you heard absurd word to the Fact 
I'm a cat nippin sippin on the flask 
Passin it talking shit but only if your ass 
In front of me cause you could run from me but 
In the end revenge send ends to the defendant 
I can't get get caught in the spiral cause every bit of energy 
It goes to my survival out my way 
I'm a flicka flacka blotter ya try to find a weakness 
But the shit keeps gettin harder 

Fourth of July with Lucy in Sky 
I remember pine trees and the coat of many colors 
I was nineteen 
I'd do anything 
Shit like that now scares me but I'd like to do it again 
It was Independence day 
I've seen the other side and I say 
I've been insane 
And I won't ever be the same 

Cuz we flow we must be fly 
First to flow Nickel my brother, so wise 
And then I rise 
Here's an ill kid pimpin' cuz he is so slick 
Step's from darkness his body electric 
A drone buzzes the air a cracklin' tone 
Then boomin' like thunder in a cosmic jungle 
Deathe defyin; like Knievel he weeble 
Words that will wobble awkward and evil 
Cuz he flow and rock the hardest of the crowds 
A marvel pow how you like me now 
I've returned the kiss of death the last Damien 
From the abyss fresh eternal alien 
Now famished from pathless way I ma, do damage 
To the wack MC's I know you can't stand this 
Right about now get down I'm the annihilator 
Rockin with the rhythm of my rhyme detonator  


                                            Lucky

I'm takin' to the bridge and there's a different country 
I'm bringing with me the people I know deep down are funky 
Oh yeah we dap we got the juice it's on tap 
Never take the time to rewind all the weak crap 
Here take it it's yours the gift is calling 
The sunshine be falling our way first every morning 
I'm a magician you see I'm christened with condition 
Held over from a future would I've come to you so listen 
There's a place out in deep space 
Where all the brothers chant and dance and rant 
And shave their heads like Buddha 
I'm a fly guy you know I'm smoother 
Of course no remorse is felt for all those loser crews 

I do not care what you do, I always screw up 
But when I do it's nothing like you, I wish you grew up 
You're saying anything like promise to get clean 
Won't kick half dead fucked up in the head 
Just get him out of here he's making me sick 

We push a sucker out 
With much force and much clout 
Didn't want to do it 
Thats not what were about 
But we got to have a limit 
How low can you get it 
Seems about time to 
Change the subject 
And sing about the wise eyed 
That makes me feel 
Good and never do 
I leave misunderstood 

Damn you know I feel good true 
I got a choice of what I'm gonna do It's like this that 
Swingin on my bat 
Mix a melody with some back chat 
Tell 'em again 
Dam I know you feel good too 
You got a choice of what you're gonna do it's like this that 
Nippin' on a cat 
Mix a melody with some back chat 

I'm rollin' slow no particular place to go so nothings changed 
The more things stay the same the more it doesn't matter 
To a late day St. Bernard acting hard 
But I throw down like a crazy retard 
But what cold make a man 
Wanna walk around the school yard with his tool hard 
What could make the switch to call a woman a bitch 
It probably downed when you couldn't get a date to the prom 
And you were stuck with Beavis 
Let's leave us on a note of positively 
I'm saying this for levity 
But if I leave it brief I call it brevity 
I said I see the people rocking 
Which means there's no stopping the flow 
And you can just tell 'em that you know 

Every night yeah we turning up 
And comin' off live 
Like and final 311 battle breakin idols 
On the one you never heard before 
You know the hard-core rockin 
Pumping the dance floor 
Leave ya feet sore lookin for your Micatin 
Because the mic is deadly in the mood we in 
Certified not fakin coool like a Jamaican 
Every time the enemy hear us they will be shakin'  


                                        Nutsymptom

The cold funk has you sunk feel the mids pump 
Blessed are those who erupt when we turn up 
Right now we corrupt 
Cons the shades we don in the neon night 
We're gonna feed on the mics and blast through a pipe 
I gotta feed on the mics and blast through a pipe 
I gotta cool capability to toast and ill 
Yo my daddy told me, "Hey son you must act chill" 
Alien rough 
My galaxy is tough 
Here comes the bang of a hip-hop thang that we bring and swing 
Men from Mars ain't ever gonna hang 
With dope Buddha's come to the stage we are attackin 
Space assassin naked live and never slackin 
Come a day on the way enter on S.A. 
Amplified form another world far away 
I got the pang of a gang and I come from the Southside 
Here's the thang that I bring and I promise to come live 

While the masses passes upon there fucking asses 
And if you don't see get glasses 
That is a shot out to the words of Curt Grubb 
The motherfucker is not scrub I said the man is the kind 
With the one that I call Brine Shrimp 
We never ever do skimp I limp on a stage in a huff 
Like magic dragon I puff on the stuff of a Humbolt cone 
Then I'm stoned watch out 
Smoke the weed that come from Northern California 
Don't do no cocaine that come from Columbia 
That the thing that mash up your nature 
Mash up your body and mash up your culture 
Take a tip from the the flipped script of Daddy Freddy 
I give complete props to the one that rocks steady 
With dexterity and goes on and on and on 
And turn out the dope shit like the one that's called 
Pawn Shop Press yes it's on what's up 
P-Nut change it up   


                                          8:16 A.M.

Stranger flowers yet 
There will never come a day that will ever regret 
The hours days years and the minutes 
The joy the pain the sunshine and rain in it 
The drives on the coast to nowhere 
Nothing to say just sit and stare 
There's nothing like the comfort of a silence that's comfortable 
Not talking small just skip the bull 
Then I find myself in servility 
Didn't think that was my ability 
I go a yard and a mile to make you smile 
But then I'm happy see 
I got so many ways to make your gaze elliptical 
Got a ways to go future's so 
Critical and I'm glad 
Just another many things we've had 

It's 8:16 A.M. will you wake up to me 
The first thing that you see 
My eyes open I'm just hopin' you feel the same as me 
The day starts carefully 
On the sidewalk with the dog 
You're right last night I was a hog 
Come on I'm sorry 
It's 73 degrees 
January easily glides 

Stranger flowers still 
If you're gonna wanna go another day I will 
Like this make it a deal 
Sealed with a kiss 
Sealed with a fell of impermanent bliss 
Today my love we shall let the world slide 
Turn off the ringer and just glide 
For we shall never be younger again than 
What do you see 

It's 8:16 A.M. will you wake up to me 
The first thing that you see 
My eyes open I'm just hopin' you feel the same as me 
The day starts carefully 
On the sidewalk with the dog 
You're right last night I was a hog 
Come on I'm sorry 
Holiday on the radio 
Billie knows that is the way to go 

A place where we both can spend out saved time 
Not collecting interest 
Maybe the same reason we always find ourselves home bound 
I've got to do some homework 
The leave response we want to leave Wisconsin 
For a new life a new trailer with an antenna and a porch 
Of course we'll bring the dog   


                                       Omaha Stylee

In a minute everything you have can all be straight gone 
In a minute things you though were tied can come straight undone 
How about some knocks on wood some so far it's so good any day 
What you think is solid earth can jump up and spread out 
To the north and south that's what plates are about 
Nature has no conscience no kindness or ill will 
The dreams they had make me sad because of the vides of them 
When one girl dreamt a fire in hers and then it happened 
To me and my family my bro's and I were driving 
The RV bleeding flames us leaping through fire surviving 
Zoned with no home there was fire all on it 
Umm let me have my life I want it 

I'm gonna let you know that I said 
We're coming in kill we're coming chill 
We've comin in how we will 
Gone to tell the whole world what's the deal 
And I say know no critical boarder cuz 
We do what we want 
Got more funky styles that my laser jet got font 
Not one to get over sounding like the norm 
Friendly to the radio all that shit is corn 
All we coming with is a little bit of swing 
And we go on like it ain't no thing 

Omaha stylee did not think there was one 
Where you know the radios weak and the shows are more fun 
But you know we fuck up the dance since 1988 
Many did not think when they hear that we come from this state 

Still we're down like that x3 
Makin the funk that smells of skunk 

Such occasions occur back in the day 
It begins you're a raw kid all the way 
Son of a gun but they you drifted 
All are endowed but few are gifted 
At the break of dawn behaving like a spy 
Lampin in the light the cold world awakens 
Deeper is the light to open up the sky 
Look into my eyes see the dialatin' 
Omaha Stylee is the shit we come with man 

Embedded in out souls it breathes out from this band We always knew that we could 
Thank you if you too felt we would 

We will arise explore these worlds and find the grass roots 
How to crew to do the grinding of the grounds to brew 
My dude on the one come off like Teflon 
Rock your shit and you will rise on 

If you're a farmer outstanding in your field say 
Do as you will do as you wish follow your bliss say 
We travel round the world giving it our best 
Like to see the people dancing and bouncing and the rest 
The hammer and the chisel and the rule it compass 
We forged the sword chariots of war our battle ax 
There's much power in anger but loves a bigger banger 
Complete props to my crew this is what we do 

   


                                  Applied Science

Nod your head to this as a lot of apprentice 
Some of this were standing on the shoulder of giants 
Some tryants some benevolent 
To the followers it's relevant 
The rest get bent on lending opinions 
I'm sending to a brand new level 
I revel in completion delition of suckers 
Getting served like Smuckers Jam 
Fool know rules but the rest keep bouncing back 
With the lack of further adieu see 
As one can deduce we 
Slam the shit out hard and long 
Cuz we got more song 

Something you might like now 
All-star bound 
Yeah your so sound 
Cool as the blue water all around 
From a force field flashing 
Aliens are sending 
Black evolutions of love you are hearing 
The dark supernatural is the world we call 
Our own home lightning in the mind comes out in song 
But we're wild they say never trust us we're shady 
In lieu of the crew your into we are baby 
Cuz music will be coming out the words we speak 
We erect breakbeats shatter wax still on the platter 
Our shit is badder we come fly then we scatter 
Cuz we deep and we solid yeah we hear ya holler 

Feels good 
Some time the only thing that really ever could 
Feed that hunger I crave it I love it I gave it 
I shove it in a battery and save it for later 
A waiter in the Dorothy C. Pavilion in '89 
I met some wierdos and had myself a real good time 
Downtown L.A. is a soul graveyard 
Where you got to be hard or get jacked 
It lacked a certain sense of something 
Something basic no karm int he least I broke east 
You know I had to face it 

I guess I flaked but it was no mistake because 
311's got the boom 

My mic check is giving me 
Electric company 
I can't see the high wide sky 
Or stars above me 
Are you a flower 
Or more like a high rise tower 
If so the soul of sweet delight 
On you will shower 
There's a place for us they say is somewhere 
Not a dream but a place and you will be there 
Your slippin' but content because your spirit 
And hills are alive with the sound of music 

   


                                          Taiyed

Returning from the water cold alive and shining 
Rock a mic in the afterlife while your moon is rising 
Heatin' up forcing steam whirling to be seen 
The dark held stars are the frost of my breathing 
Swimming through the darkness I'm a ghostly shark 
Developing like a photograph slowly in the dark 
The hearafter the action the main attraction 
One love in all of this that I'm going after 

Now there's fire inside but black space surrounds you 
You think "Where oh where am I" 
but even your light continues 
See through us see a soul we have not yet 
Learned to harness see the next world inside it 
We are the people of skin who left water 
Inside the dark womb inside of our mother 
Prone to the beat and vibe of our tribe 
We catch the drift and ride moving tides 
Out from a love that will keep on burning 
Now see yourself to the next world returning 
This life an old place we face to live again 
What is it to understand the heareafter 

   


                                           Silver

Don't fear mere words cuz if it takes a word ruin ya 
You should have already hard you're finished through and soon ya 
See that stifling sentences is so much more suspicious 
Much worse could come of that so much more delicious 
To the dastardly basturdly plans of little mice and men 
Ugly rears its head and speaks from now and then 
People love to disagree so avoid the endless bout make no attempt 
To try and suss the stupid out 
But of the racist institutions simple minds belong 
Not happy just being human, no wish to get along 
Little people need exclusions sucker groups to throng 
It makes them feel special it makes them feel strong 
Now I got a click but it's more like a family 
Not an ethnic trip more like an ethic see 
I write the rhyme today tell it to you later 
Whether were coming in wack or what it's a waste to be a hater 

Graffiti bombs-from the palms-love is so strong 
Can't be stopped too long 
For the night it will come 
Shaped in the form of Mars that stone afar 
Ghetto cool Oh well 
Now you feel the spell 
The color rocks the bell 
The king of swing rise to the top 
The thythm possessed in ya and it don't stop 
The mise is broken The demon locin' 
Dropping the bomb and all that is left is the smokin' 
Cloakin' chokin; the lyrics are spoken 
Infrared vision scopin' condition 
Now breakin' 'em all to pieces like a sly rap bandit 
Witha fly Lu-Kang kick in Mortal Combat and I land it 
So get your own back when I jam it cold and 
Hearing about you rhyme style been outmoded 
The dopest flow upon the planet 
Dope is the word the bro throw up on the down low goddammit 

You juice your fucking friends like Dracula 
But when we kick you out you're just brokula 
You left a big surprise from Pacific Bell 
Called all your relatives and your friends in Hell 
Now let me tell you something you fucking piece of shit 
You'll never have no money, now tell me was it worth it? 
You leave a trail of lies that's why you keep moving 
We won't come after you we'd only end up provin 
In the end revenge send ends to the defendant 
I know that statement's true I wear it like a pendant 
I know you'll hear this song so I think it's funny 
The name is theif or trust and money. 

Like Captain Picard we come hard in light years 
Our star has long bust but now reappears 
In your sky at night rising and immense 
Yes you see ourselves in the shine of it 
And so passing under the dome of the great sky 
Beware we are the stars holmes that you ruled by 
Where death reborn into the world is a gift 
So the future with no voice of its own will uplift 
All is gone 
All is calm y'all 

Set wrecked in L.A. 
In the Wetlands of New York 
Atlanta and Phoenix 
Portland, Lincoln and N.O. 

   


                                       Grassroots

I flip when I kick it trippin it 
So I can check shit not in a daily style 
But once in every while so I can 
File check file check the files of my brain 
Many of meaning manage to come from the insane 
And the butcher the baker the fabulous drama maker 
A cracker on a truck goin' breaker breaker 
Listen to everyone then disregard it 
The maningful shit comes back back to where it started 
In your cranium surrounded by pot like a geranuim 
A capital 2 burns in my mind give me some peace 
I looked at her I looked at him and neither one did know 
Where the wild thoughts grow check it out 

I look to absolutes and there absolutely none 
The truth is what you shoot for not one 
Nothing brings it all together the journeys never done 
I'd sing you Stormy Weather but it's been sung so 
Let's have some fun 
Three Eleven hass grass roots 
Challenge comes and goes and there will be another 
I say bring it on 
The roots that grow underground are as big as the tree 
That you see if not it will fall down 
We waste so many moments standing on convention 
The only survey is when our heart pays no attention 

Move with persistence cover much distance 
Knowing no perdition that's my game for instance 
Three Eleven true to no tradition 
And the Three Eleven crew not dow with convention 
But a hundred different people already told what we about 
So I make not attempt to try and suss the stupid out 
I'd turned into a roughneck that was not my intention 
It doesn't even really matter unless I fail to mention that 
Peace to all crews that want some peace 
First the Mid then the West then we slide through the East 
A piece to any crew that want a peice 
But peace to all crews that want peace 
Check it out 

   

                                           Salsa

We were born in the seventies 
The rippin and rhyming and brethren see 
We're filling taste great 
In the old school I was eight 
Fot the new school I was late 
But in high school I was debate 
I rate in the great state of California 
I'm warning ya 
Je vais a la plage parce que le guignol est chouette! 
I kick nonsense in French tasty like Crepe Suzette 
I bet you gonna wanna try this but it takes niceness 
I like a beat that's unique and I like my head zooming 
And in my Continental you know that shit's booming 
With the diamond int eh back suicide doors 
You can look from here to eternity 
And never receive your morsel. 

Another tale of ordinary madness 
The girl who gave you her sex I heard was homeless say 
All I really wanna is to feel nirvana 
Won't you take me tonight and we just might find 
A bottle of wine and feel our nasty nature 
Your toung lickin' up my tounge 
Your radio pickin' up a smokey jazz love song 
Madness becomes you even though your 
Livin' life it's hard to exist when you're tempted 
By flesh you wanna bust through 
Beautiful legs in the bar there is poetry 
She bends and suspends and her ass 
Is a marvelous thing 
A dance dancin' at a club the Hereafter 
Who can't really dance but that doesn't really matter 
And she won't hear applause 
Cus your drunk and lost 
All light is gone 
Your arms spread like a cross 
And you're dreaming that the world 
Will soon fall apart 
Topless firl in your gaze 
Which is hazy 
Takes your dollar 
In the gutter without cigarettes 
Or wine your hungover 
I was warned of your normal 
Behaviour and felt 
My life was too short to 
Consider your wack self 
It's like this when you dip down 
And you are boxin' 
Reeling against the ropes and you 
Face some young Mexican 
Your scrappin' your kneck gets 
Snapped back your eyes have bled 
Your thinking' about a comeback 
But your takin' it to the head 
You little bastard 
Better watch you back 
Cuz we're after 
Your punk ass by God we're gonna jack it 
You're played out and small time 
And your show is over 
You're 'bout as lucky as a three leaf clover 
And your older ho bag sceezer 
In her droopy saggy skin 
Who thoughtshe was a model 
But in truth a never-has-been 
I'll slap that witch as if I were her pimp 
And my crew will attest to her fradulence 

   

                                            Lose

I can see it now have to show you how 
The funny thing is that we couldn't have it any other way 
Still it kills me when we say 
All we've been through 
All the congs that I've sung for you 
We both know I'm gonna lose you 

I hate to be alone 
There comes a time to reap what you've sewn 
All we've been through 
All the songs that I've sung for you 
We both know I'm gonna lose you 

Let's think of all the good times 
Instead of wish we could times 
So much better that way 
This is what I ask for 
This is what I deserve 
Be careful what you ask for 

   


                                             Six

You know patience pushing a dream brings my demons to life 
Songs are vacations our soul salvation will you 
Suspend your disbelief I'd like to be the, thief 
That steals that jaded necklace that you're always wearing 
I'd take that thing and with my knive I'd start pairing so 
Chop chop piece piece and send it to the raiders of LA 
There are so many this land of plenty 
The things we lack straight square within our grasp 
Ever you do ever you think 
Whether you're brown or you're pink 
I think not thinkings better bout it 
When you stop to think 
The jaded ones will wither 
While the optimistic grow 
I settle that a bet will let a large amount 
So indulge me just for a minute imagine no one holdin out 
All trying for peace my brothers down 
Some others down it happens slow 
think you should know the direction that the world go peace 

They number six to make them feel like men 
They one up us cuz we're much to much for them 
OK the method to the mischeifs over there then 
Sike shazam we strike with the lightnin 
Through space we move and emit an ill tracer 
We're set to light your world kid we're your maker 
Check it our karma plus the avant garder 
Style of out sect wise to ways comes to wreck 
While the masses mill around curse in anguish 
311 stompin' em down with the quickness 
We see all the crews that be comin' around 
Like a drive through Estes park you savor the sun 
But when the clouds come make animals 

   

                                 Offbeat Bare-Ass

Any different people can apply to drop the funk 
It's not a country club review board steady talkin junk 
Many people would have it others go put and grab it 
Some trip over toots and say fuck it I'm sunk 
I put it in a limerick and kick the slick nick verbs 
I am the one who scores the herb 
When we're on the road P-Nut rolls it up 
Throw me a joint on stage what's up 
I will tell a cop that I know my fucking rights 
And we can match wits all night for real 
He said if I had nothing to hide 
Then of course I wouldn't mind if he looked through our ride 
Uh, no I'd really rather you didn't 
And no we don't have guns hidden 
We stood there for a while continue to decline 
Firmly, I didn't lose my mind 
I didn't let him break me he's just another human 
Not a bit of shame in what we were doin' that day 
He couldn't make us stay 
We had our shit together 
It don't matter whether 
We sport the dread locks or a shaved head 
Or if we have a sticker from the dead 
I said a better verse rehearsed about the roughneck curse 
Last week I keep an even keel and bow in place 
And face the music every minute 

Never could see my homey comin' till he passed 
Funky gas by my way all the day I couldn't laugh 
Oh by now I'm chill with it 
Bare ass in my face I'm ok but Chad's like "Uh-uh no he isn't" 
So I proceed to hear him get loose with the 
Fartin' all over my face sometimes my tummy 
He fucked with my flow although I thought it funny 
I probably wouldn't care if I smoked more kind bud 
But that wouldn't do me shit cuz then he'd fuck me more up 
Crazy ill and chillin' rude but I'ze a real cool dude 
He didn't believe the day would come when he would get his top 
But then one day right in front of his face I got him 
He looked over said "God damn get me some water" 
The one time I hadn't wasted till I got mine 
Smeared his nose with my armpit funk slime 
So you get it the picture just how sick we were then 
But before I jet "Hey yo Chad sniff my finger man" 

I can see a lot of people who feel like I do 
I can see a lot of people who feel like I don't 
I go on step lightly even when I'm heavy 
High jump the slump open up fot eh Revy Horton Heat 
Sweet what am I displayin' forgot what I was saying 
I know I must be laying a pipe you got a gripe 
With the way I get high 
Graffix bong sing along with a cry of a 
Mandatory sentence for a crime with no victim 
When everyone knows jail terms should be picked in 
Order of the pain that they cause 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law 
Until you violate the rights of another 
Respect the space of your sister and your brother 
The war on drugs may be well intentioned 
But it falls fucking flat when you stop and mention 
The overcrowded prisons where a rapists gets paroled 
To make room for a dude who has sold 
A pound of weed to me that's a crime 
Here's to good people doin time y'all 

Bare Ass Yeah x4 

   

                                            1,2,3

Long time did I run down like that 
I would have three years ago-today but not now 
It's not like that 

It's all right to feel good 
It's all for nothing to be wrong 
The deepest dream that we have 
Could be tomorrow's song 

Just what did he say stop 
1 and 2 and 3 
Run up the hill do as you do 
I'm going to chill you know you really 
Ought to do the same 
They wanna bug you 
But I won't let them today 
It's a sure shot to the bomb drop 
Every single 
You know you swing 
it and you fling it 
And you make some shit up but 
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