| Song | Act Won (Things Fall Apart) - Album Version (Explicit) |
| Artist | The Roots |
| Album | Things Fall Apart |
| 作曲 : Ahmir Thompson | |
| 作词 : Lee, Thompson | |
| 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. |
| zuò qǔ : Ahmir Thompson | |
| zuò cí : Lee, Thompson | |
| 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, hiphop 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. |