[00:00.00]Stay Cool (Explicit) - The Roots
[00:01.29]Bass for your face highs for your eyes
[00:03.75]Don't blink Black Ink has arrived all rise
[00:05.95]Rudebwoys keep dem thing at your side be alright
[00:08.85]Muh'f**kers Philly we up in here we all live
[00:11.43]I'm puffin this Cohiba mami coolin her heels
[00:13.75]All she ever seem to do is play it cool f'real
[00:16.35]She be pushin pop vessel
[00:17.91]And her shoes is ill
[00:19.12]But her hand keep slippin on the woodgrain wheel
[00:21.63]But it's cool we never slippin
[00:23.26]When there's moves to make
[00:24.46]Especially when what we talkin ain't ya usual cake
[00:26.75]I pump bass for y'all bathin apes to get charged
[00:29.57]Nah I'm not a dealer I'm a poet at large
[00:32.37]We in the wind with the roof back
[00:34.51]Lettin the breeze hit us
[00:35.57]The bathrobe on with sweatpants and slippers
[00:37.23]Comin to pay a visit to whoever on the hitlist
[00:40.04]Some of y'all been tryin for years
[00:42.79]You'll never get this fool
[00:44.43]Check it out (stay cool) stay cool daddy (stay cool)
[00:47.42]Stay cool ma (hey hey) c'mon
[00:49.21](Stay cool motherf**kers y'all know the rules)
[00:52.66](Hey stay cool stay cool)
[00:58.17]There it is (Yeah hah hah stay coooool)
[01:04.13]Hip-Hop my main b**ch
[01:04.91]I got a few on the side
[01:06.42]The game stitched y'all I'm doin my job
[01:08.03]Go up against enormous odds
[01:09.40]Wouldn't break a sweat money make her bet
[01:11.86]Funny son you threat
[01:13.04]Well I ain't shakin yet
[01:14.08]Twenty-fo'/sev' chillin
[01:15.08]Tougher than penicillin
[01:16.55]From the block where the crooked
[01:18.09]Cops killin like a villain
[01:19.81]Children in the hood gettin rocked by they buildings
[01:21.62]And brothers cross the board gettin knocked by the millions
[01:24.40]The stress got me ignitin the potent m*******a leaf
[01:27.33]Tryin to play it cooler than a polar bear colony
[01:29.79]You feel the music know I'm over there probably
[01:32.39]Pimpin on the same system that forever shorted me
[01:34.92]I got the soul of a young Sam Cooke when I spit
[01:38.33]It make you wanna make a new dance up
[01:40.76]It's all to the good shorty 'gwan do that stuff
[01:43.14]It's not another sound system rockin steady as us
[01:44.81]And it's cool
[01:46.58](Stay cool) yeah (stay cool) stay cool ha
[01:49.78](Hey hey) check it out and just
[01:51.43](Stay cool motherf**kers y'all know the rules) yeah
[01:53.50](Hey stay cool stay cool)
[02:01.06](Yeah hah hah stay coooool)
[02:06.65]Yeah when I'm crusin in my vehicle
[02:08.19]The chase harass me
[02:08.87]They never ride past me
[02:10.17]They really comin at me right
[02:11.74]They wanna know where the drugs guns and cash be
[02:14.24]Probably wanna get me to run
[02:16.18]So they can blast me
[02:17.08]Just blast me in your box play my sh*t
[02:19.12]I know it's crowded at the top
[02:20.77]Cause I'm on the tip
[02:21.75]And that's as high up at the top
[02:23.26]As a brother could get
[02:24.46]And how I do it make a lot of muh'f**kers upset
[02:26.64]But it's fine re-gizzlin I'm back for mine
[02:29.38]In case y'all gettin tired of the same ol' shine
[02:32.21]And I'm calm calculated and perfectly aligned
[02:34.51]The way I'm operatin what is a surgery of rhyme
[02:37.15]It's not a thang when I lower the gradient lens frames
[02:39.94]I'm cooler than Clyde Stubblefield drummer for James
[02:42.37]Hip-Hop is out of Hustleville comin for change
[02:45.01]I exercise 'til a muscle build breakin the chains
[02:47.82]And I'm cool
[02:49.29](Stay cool) (stay cool) (hey hey)
[02:53.02](Stay cool motherf**kers y'all know the rules)
[02:55.44](Hey stay cool stay cool)
[03:04.18](Yeah hah hah stay coooool)