Roots, The - Lazy Afternoon Lyrics






[Chorus]

It's a lazy afternoon
(Summertime, as I recline, lay back and relax, let the sun shine)

[Verse 1]

[Black Thought]

Consider this a message to my mellow in the front seat
of the Jeep pumpin' beats for your rump
In the summertime I'm risin' to the shine at 12:20
Ghetto streets are sunny, niggas is gettin' money
It's mad hot, and what I got to do I'm not sure of
I call up Maura, this dip I know from Bora Bora
Was rappin' for a second about what I reckoned that I

was doin' at six, she was invitin' me to the flicks
That I'm with, blew a kiss
Now I'm in the shower
I meant the bath in which I simmer for half an hour
Then got drier, put on attire to inspire
Hit my dresser for numbers of women that I admire
Laid around and lounged 'til around two
Then I got up and ate, drank a brew and caught a page from the crew
sayin' "Where ya at? Later, meet us up at the Plat
Bring a sack, ayo it's Saturday, it's gonna be fat"
Now it's 3:37 and I still ain't left the rest
Electric Relaxation from A Tribe Called Quest
with the boom, tokin', smokin', coolin' out
as I parlay in my room 'cause it's a lazy afternoon

[Other verses as Verse 1, with the following variations:]

[Verse 2:] "this dip I knew from Bora Bora"
"'cause it's a lazy aaaaaahh!" [dental style]

[Verse 3:] "I'm in the shower"
"a page from my crew"
"Bring a sack, nigga, it's Saturday"





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  1. J.... K....

    Great song to start a Saturday off with

  2. k.... c....

    Wow. 1,100 upvotes to 20 downvotes...I think that's the greatest disparity I've ever seen on a yt video

  3. L.... a....

    @rightful8912 Dope post! But I'm gone need you get the copyright correct. This was released in 1994.

  4. T.... P....

    Never heard this one before. Mellow as hell

  5. P.... M....

    the lick

  6. A.... L....

    Black thought has the smoothest flow ever like damn

  7. m.... ....

    this whorea I knew from bora bora

  8. A.... E....

    The Root's Forever 💯🔥

  9. D.... B....

    In case you didn't know, he raps the same verse the entire song

    D.... B....

    Fezile Mkhungo yup

    D.... B....

    Dood Bro yea I peeped that too

    D.... B....

    Dood Bro years ago , years ago, groups would do that. Mostly in rock music I've noticed

    D.... B....

    Dood Bro yea old skool hip hop flip

    D.... B....

    hence lazy dudes a problem since day 1 the goat top 10 list my reasons he 4

  10. T.... ....

    "Where ya at? Later meet us up at the plat bring a sack ayo its Saturday,its gonna be Phat!" Tell me that's wasnt the story of your life at that time! Lol. It may still be for a few heads.I can dig it! Get all the good times in while you still can..

    T.... ....

    Def story of my life at the time.

  11. A.... E....

    Real chill layback pure hip hop Right here Roots for life🎤🎧💯🔥

  12. A.... E....

    The Roots Forever

  13. T.... T....

    Electric Relaxation from A Tribe Called Quest!
    R.I.P. Phife

    T.... T....

    Yo that's the lyric that brought back to this classic!

  14. J.... H....

    Just FIRE!!!!

  15. C.... ....

    I've been getting recommended this song on EVERY FUCKING VIDEO I WATCH FOR THE LAST YEAR.

    I have no idea why, this song is mediocre as fuck, why is it ALWAYS recommended to me.

    C.... ....

    thanks for proving my point

    C.... ....

    your taste in music is mediocre as fuck

    C.... ....

    @Zachary Gelb
    You're only saying that because I don't like a garbage song that you like.

    C.... ....

    I see a few of you all delight in feeding the troll

    C.... ....

    CROUTONZZ , in case you didn't figure out, he raps the same verse the entire song, and also you could have just clicked 'not interested'

  16. S.... ....

    Another wake up show classic!!

  17. Y.... K....

    How I feel today

  18. C.... c....

    Could've added some trumpet and flute in there but I'm not complaining.

  19. G.... F....

    Minnie Riperton's Here We Go #classic

  20. s.... ....

    I love this song

  21. B.... o....

    fucking hipsters

    B.... o....

    You ok?

  22. A.... C....

    Very dope verse.

  23. A.... G....

    hip-hop music, is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.

  24. Y.... ....

    Black thought can make a whole album repeating this one verse and it'll still be able to smash a majority of the new shit coming out today

  25. W.... ....

    Hip hop is Graffiti, Rap, B-Boying and DJing. You're saying that this isn't apart of any of those categories? Plainly, you're mistaken. Lyrically, Roots created their style. If you can't dig it, then turn it off. Go listen to whatever you listen to. Roots, Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Doppelgangaz, KRS One, Hieroglyphics, Souls of Mischief.... These are all one being under this entity of hip hop, if you will. If this ain't hip hop, then none of it is...? and that's wrong.

  26. M.... M....

    The reason he rhymes the same vurse 3 times is to make a progression of funk, from the first to the climatic 3rd. Listen closely.

    M.... M....

    Mitch M verse*

  27. O.... ....

    Gotta Love dem roots

  28. J.... B....

    yes it is very lazy;)

  29. m.... s....

    i could tell him

  30. 1.... ....

    This is how it is though bro. Use brain cells and come up with conscious lyrics and you are moving away from "Mainstream" territory, don't include sex, money and materialism and your on the bottom shelf. Must incorporate ALL; SOMEhow o.O

  31. A.... A....

    LOL Now this joint right here...this was the dominant flow at that time. This came right on the heels of AG & Showbiz's The Next Level ft. Premier.

  32. C.... ....

    Yes , i want more.

  33. C.... F....

    cause its a lazy aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

  34. J.... F....

    Such a laid back album, even if it's not their best (in my opinion, anyway).

  35. h.... ....

    You're the... word you used. BEEEE CAUSE.... negativity! These guys are about positivity and usefulness and relaxation. You... are a hater.

  36. h.... ....

    2012 too!

  37. B.... ....

    @clippers334: The Knowmads are dope, don't hate before you listen.

  38. G.... ....

    prolly the best live hip hop group ever.. ever since 93.. they are all musicians.

  39. c.... ....

    @MuzikEsLife dude you're totally wrong. Let real heads talk on this thread and you can go promote your friends tracks on some some wack emcee's page. I too usually don't stoop low to comment on comments but damn dude to say this isn't hip hop should be one of the 7 deadly sins, you need some repentance son.

  40. c.... ....

    @pepo91088 "that all mighty amazing, ill, highly contagious"

  41. c.... ....

    @pepo91088 come on man thats the old "sick" even on their old joint with common he says "I'm from the state that is ill" and he's not just saying that cause it's short for Illinois.

  42. 1.... ....

    I used to burn l's to this all the time

  43. T.... ....

    @bubbusby yeah, i could definitely hear the sucka nigga, but couldn't put my finger on it. props!

  44. p.... ....

    @MuzikEsLife peace to mankind

  45. C.... S....

    @MuzikEsLife I fount out who Tom Pepe is from reading this comment. Thanks you very much he is amazing!

  46. J.... B....

    @MuzikEsLife To insinuate that Jazz and Hip Hop don't share a long, long history is absurd. W/O Jazz there is no hip hop. Period...

    Knowmads is laughable at best as is most Seattle Hip Hop, which is unfortunate for me. You want real hip hop, look up "Web" or "75 Bars" by The Roots. Essentially it's just Thought on the Mic and Quest on the Drums.

  47. J.... B....

    @MuzikEsLife The repetition is an old Jazz technique of doing the same thing, hitting the same notes, but in a different way with a different inflection or attitude. ATCQ does the same thing on "Sucka Nigga"

    You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

  48. B.... B....

    you dnt even unseeerstrand music MuzikEs, you dnt understand tha flow of this the lazyniess, the mellow ness.. gtfo here.. wit cho bitchass lol.. btw only a few words of each verse are changed, so its not relaly the same verse three times

  49. m.... m....

    @ABluFuture they make me wish i was from philie ahhaha. but mad respect to ne1 who likes the roots. big up to all yall who viewed this video

  50. M.... ....

    @WOLVESVIDS Yeah true. Black thought is one the most underrated rappers(OF ALL TIME), right behind AZ and Masta Ace. And all the REAL hip-hop fans should know The Roots! Unlike cedpooh38. That guy is 34 years old and he called himself a Hip-Hop guru, but he doesn't even know the The Roots and he thinks Lil Wayne is the best rapper Alive. That makes me wanna killed myself. LMAO!

  51. s.... ....

    For the longest I thought this track was messed up but after I came down from being high I realized it was just redundantly beautiful.

  52. M.... ....

    How many people I convinced to give me $20 so I could cop this album for them? How could I hate an ill brotha like Thought PLUS Minnie Riperton interploations and shout outs to ATCQ? Word UP^^

  53. d.... ....

    @clippers334 so true

  54. c.... ....

    I love how all of The Roots music sound just as ill in 2010 as it did in 95

  55. E.... A....

    @WOLVESVIDS i think they might be the best live show in the world

  56. s.... P....

    @Esotrepid yeah there is, a desent taste in music.

  57. a.... ....

    I got the thing that the verse repeats, but after visiting Mary Jane it took me a while to catch it on again.

  58. a.... ....

    one of the points of the song that I get is how he can pick which section of the 16th note to start the accent on each time through the same verse. we used to do drills like this in drumline, 'pass the accent' or 'rukka rukka'

  59. B.... F....

    This is real rap

  60. D.... ....

    Hell Yeah

  61. c.... ....

    @Esotrepid
    a lazy afternoon analogizes your statement same lazy shyt over and over....

  62. J.... ....

    this song is very addictive

  63. B.... ....

    This track has awesome atmospere...
    What's more, Questolve in NBA2k9 is very funny xD

  64. T.... G....

    Now it's 3:37 and I still aint left the rest.. Electric Relaxation from A Tribe Called Quest..

  65. E.... R....

    its great how he uses a song in his song:"Electric Relaxation from A Tribe Called Quest" its also a grea tune.i highly suggest listening to iy

  66. a.... ....

    Definitely on my top Five hip hop groups of all time.

  67. D.... P....

    I luv the Roots. I think Black Thought is a very slept on lyricist and The Roots is a very talented slept on hip hop group. They should of blew up way more than they have. They just bring a different element to hip hop that I think just isnt respected enuff. Theys guys are super talented. those who slept wake up and take sum no doz cause yall are missin out.

  68. A.... A....

    song descent but why they all rap the same verse

  69. f.... ....

    havin a lazy afternoon in Lonodon

  70. D.... ....

    Bora Bora.

  71. C.... ....

    and his delivery is different each time

  72. m.... ....

    l'll contribute to the "boo's!"

  73. Q.... K....

    i love how next to this nice, intellectual song, it has an advertisement for lil wayne ringtones.....trash

  74. n.... ....

    boom...tokin, smokin, coolin out, as i parly in my room.

  75. B.... R....

    There has been insane amounts of weed ingested by my lungs while listening to this joint.

  76. C.... F....

    All their albums are ridiculous in their own way. One of the most consistant in hip hop ever

  77. G.... ....

    Hell ya, this and Illadelph Halflife are ridiculous!!

  78. M.... H....

    is it just be or does thought sound like common on this song. I dont know why but that first verse sounds like him.

  79. d.... ....

    Fall 1996, Western Michigan University, Garneau - Harvey hall... my mind is there once again.

  80. B.... ....

    I remember getting stoned and listening to this album and Illadelph Halflife. Good times man.

  81. M.... ....

    wat!!!! one of my fav roots song yo 4 real luv the creativity of how they express the laziness of that afternoon

  82. i.... j....

    THE LEGENDARY ROOTS CREW

  83. R.... B....

    Frankly I think this song could've had a bangin' video. This is the SHIZNIT!!!

  84. R.... B....

    But Black Thought knows how make a single verse song tight as fuck, UNLIKE No-soulja Boy.

  85. W.... ....

    thought is so underrated,his lyrics are consistently ill,delivery and versatility insane..and the roots are the best live show in hip hop!

  86. e.... ....

    errrbody WAKE UP

  87. T.... ....

    this song/vid needs more attention
    the Roots are legendary.