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Germination 2​.​0: Roots, Seeds, and a Chestnutt

from The Funky Autopsy by Myrlin

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lyrics

I met you on a Sunday down by the bus stop.
You was nodding your head to Black Thought.
Said The Roots was your favorite group.
How could I not fall in love with you?
Right then YOU GOT ME like Erykah Badu.
Made my body weak just like a fresh bruise—I
lost all the air in my lungs. Nowhere to run.
You made my heart beat like drums from Quest Love.
Jazz lit up my ears like Holiday Billie.
Asked you “Where you from?” Said “Pennsylvania Philly.”
Said Philly once had your heart
but things get rough and THINGS FALL APART
and that’s just the way it goes.
Everything’s got a TIPPING POINT. This, we know.
Came to Arizona just to escape the snow.
Told me you studied psychology.
Made a joke like, “Don’t you mean PHRENOLOGY?”
Then you pulled out that red ink pen,
wrote your name and number right across my forehead,
Like man

Black Thought: “And the world fienda know my name.”

(So, this girl writes on my forehead on the bus,
and first of all, I don’t know what she wrote.
You know what I’m sayin? So like one of the dudes on the bus
is tellin’ me, like, “Ah she wrote, you know, ‘You’re an idiot,’”
and then someone else is like, “No, that’s actually her number,”
you know, so,
but I’m in sunny Arizona, so I started sweatin’ that number off my head,
you know, so the 7 turns into like an 8 and like . . . the 6 is like half way erased
so it looks like a 0.
So I call like the wrong number like 6 times, Homie, and then finally, you know,
finally, you know, I hook it up, and then I go to the crib.

(Chorus)

[Cody Chestnutt]
I push my seed in her bush for life.
Its gonna work because I’m pushin’ it right.
If Mary drop my baby girl tonight.
I would name her rock and roll.

(Verse Two)

Came to ya crib, felt like I stepped in THE WEB.
Record collection scattered on the bed.

Tellin me how you rough Philly stylin’,
smoke in your city keep RISING DOWN.
You moved your hands all around,
singin’ out loud, mimicking bass, strings and keys,
pretendin’ to be Kamal Gray,
Ben Kenney, Lenny Hubbard.
Now you in the kitchen reachin’ in cupboard
for some honey and butter.
I muttered, “Oh, brother”
when the honey stuck to your KNUCKLES
I say “F”
cuz your body makes my knees buckle.

Slicen’ holes in my GAME THEORY
I’m holding a bowl of fruit.
You like, “Really? Pretty boys aint got no juice.
Actin’ all cute when they really tryin’ to tell their boys HOW they GOT OVER.”
Told me, “Baby, baby, stay sober. I don’t wanna wake up to a cold shoulder.”

“Girl make a rollin’ stone wanna be boulder,” I told her.

(Chorus)

[Cody Chestnutt]

I push my seed in her bush for life
It’s gonna work because I’m pushin’ it right
If Mary drop my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock and Roll.


(Verse Three)

Passion made it a RAW roll of the DICE.
We admit that we grip for life.
I COME ALIVE when I come inside
your house. In the kitchen, in the air, on the couch

the music settles on the mattress where we make match sticks
from our fingertips, and the fact is
that we cool like a flame when the aftermath hits.

I beat box like Rahzel Fantastic.

Baby for really, you got soul like Jilly from Philly
if you’re willing,
Girl, ya know, I B Malik‘in freakin’ every weekend.
It’s my heart’s work.

Told me love ain’t shit but a blood sport.

Baby daughter, baby son can’t be UNDUN.
You got fam from them Philly slums,
some who ran wild at the track yard,
slangin’ crack on the corner trying to track the stars,
place where the Captain Kirk’s put the gat, the scratch, the graph to work.
Nine months roll by. No lie I will cry
if you drop my baby girl tonight
cuz you know she got them Chestnutt eyes.

(Chorus)

[Cody Chestnut]

I don’t beg for no rich man.
And I don’t scream and kick when his shit don’t fall in my hands man
Cuz I know how to steal
I’ve had a thousand lovers against my lover’s will
I lick the opposition cuz she don’t take no pill
Oh dear
You’ll be keepin’ my legend alive

I push my seed in her bush for life
Its gonna work because I’m pushin’ it right
If Mary drop my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock and Roll.
Oh Break it down.

I push my seed somewhere deep in her chest
I’ll push it naked cuz I’m takin’ my test
Delivering Mary it don’t matter the sex
I’m gonna name it rock and roll.

I push my seed in her bush for life
Its gonna work because I’m pushin’ it right
If Mary drop my baby girl tonight
I would name her Rock and Roll.

I would name her Rock and Roll
I would name her Rock and Roll
I would name her Rock and Roll (oh yeah)
I would name it Rock and Roll.

credits

from The Funky Autopsy, released July 3, 2013
Audio Engineer: DJ Foundation. Lyrics: Myrlin Hepworth. Original Music Created by The Roots and Cody Chestnutt from “The Seed 2.0”

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Myrlin Phoenix, Arizona

Poet, emcee and teaching artist Myrlin Hepworth has written and performed across the United States. In addition to visiting nearly 30 high schools each year, he makes a living with his art by performing at universities, youth centers, group homes, museums, and theaters. Hepworth has competed in 3 National Poetry Slams and coaches the Phoenix team at Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam ... more

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