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Artist/Band: The Roots
Lyrics for Song: Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
Lyrics for Album: Things Fall Apart [1999]



You are all...

We don't even come to see our own, man.

Listen, Freddy, listen...

If we had to depend upon black people to eat,

We would starve to death.

You've been out there,

You on the bandstand,

You look out there, What do you see?

You see Japanese, you see... you see West Germans,

You see Slobovic, you know, anything, except our people man.

It makes no sense, it incenses me that our own people

Don't realize our own heritage, our own culture.

This is our music.

That's bullshit!

Why?

That's all bullshit. Everything, everything you just said is bullshit.

You're complaining about-

I'm talking about the audience.

That's right.

The people don't come because you grandiose motherfuckers don't play

shit that they like. If you played the shit that they liked,

then the people would come.

Simple as that.



Inevitably, hip-hop records are treated as though they are disposable.

They are not maximized as product, not to mention as art.



First section is a scene from "Mo'Better Blues" by Spike Lee.

Second section is an unknown comment.


Album Lyrics: Things Fall Apart [1999]


The Roots
"Things Fall Apart [1999]"


1. Step Into The Realm
2. Don't See Us
3. 100percent Dundee
4. Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
5. Table Of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)
6. The Spark
7. Dynamite!
8. Without A Doubt
9. Ain't Sayin' Nothing New
10. Diedre Vs. Dice
11. The Return To Innocence Lost
12. Act Fore (The End?)