Common - Thelonious Lyrics

J Dilla!

This joint is always relaxin’ my mind... 😇

i'd say best ,, but so many ,, this IS in the best of straight fire lyracists stamps put down on a track ,, ever, just straight music, beats and rhymes,, only way to describe it, and to its HEIGHTS.

2020 I’m still banging dis in my ear hip hop don’t stop

u not alone... ;) #sayinisall

Dope album

Still a banger asfk 🔥🔥🔥🔥💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

...Stay on your mind like great sex...numbers look crooked like King Kong Kong shook it...J Dilla the boss for real!

Never gets old

Numbers look crooked like king Kong shook it!

J Dilla made timeless beats

Ha, yeah, yeah
Uhh, yeah, yeah, play at your own risk
Act like you know bitch I'm on some grown shit
Ha, yeah, yeah, play at your own risk
Act like you know bitch I'm on some grown shit
It's the Thelonious, super microphonist
You know us, this rap shit we 'bout to own it
You know it, these minimes try to clone us
I got a bonus for the bitch that run up on us
I got a bonus for your bitch that run up on us
It's the Thelonious, super microphonist

Uhh, no time to sleep cuz if you sleep you don't eat
Gotta hold heat, just to make ends meet
Niggas livin on the street while other niggas feast
Aight wit you it aint aight wit me
Right, gotta make money all my life
Gotta stay fuckin bitches many types
Yeah you know what I'm talkin 'bout
Yup, stay turnin these bitches out
Dick em down also dick em out
Throw somethin down whenever my dick's out
They know me so they restructure and reroute
They know me from Washington to down south
All the way to London to my nigga Common house
Right, it's like a game we never play out, out, out, out...

Nigga no doubt, nigga get live or get knocked the fuck out
Word up, just be about what you about dogg
Knowhatimsayin, just play at your own risk
Act like you know bitch I'm on some grown shit
It's the Thelonious, super microphonist
You know us, this rap shit we 'bout to own it
You know it, cuz you can feel it in your throat
Say it

I'm 'bout to let my mind float
(Com, say it)
Get your third eye poked
Fuck game, I assemble dope...
Ness, a nigga that's fresh as the 'fess
Studied this rap shit, no need to mic test
You can feel it in your chest
Your B I, feel it in her breasts
Plus you, rhyme like a nigga wit his nipples pierced
We lick off lyrics in the streets and real niggas hear us
Dreamin when I wrote this, box me if I go too wild
Still doin this shit like dude in wild style
Invitin wack niggas to dinner
I "Trick Daddy" emcees and I don't know, "Nann Nigga"
Who can take it where I take it
You better go into God like Mase did
Leavin crowds complacent
I move em above clouds whether on some ?surface the earth? shit
Or thug style you can feel it in your body
Yeah y'all you can feel it in your body

Like if a 12 gauge shottie shell hit your body
You don't want no one to find your ass a hobby
Carbon copy, niggas tryin to clone us
You know us, Thelonious, super microphone
You know this, rap shit we 'bout to own it dun, for real

Ay, it's like a ritual
You been invited let the ?? stimulate the place
With the grace, nevertheless, I stress
Let the music put a smile on your face
As for the ritual, when it comes to spiritual excellence
You know I always leave you with the taste
I know you like it hard to the core
That's what you ask for ???????
Hurtin like a ?? in that ass, like a ritual
Conversation with the most high makes me wanna cry
I wonder why, you wanna get to paradise
But that itty bitty part of you don't wanna die
So pay attention to my word, cuz it's the truth
Meditation ease the mind, and brings the youth
It's like a verse you could never read out of a book
Darken the line and your mind like a fish hook
Word is birth, yo I do it till the break of day
Pay attention to your art, never go astray
Word is bond

Yo we do it and we don't quit
Sucka nigga you don't want it, it's Thelonious
Ownin this rap shit, super microphonist, and we known to spit
I spit fire like Esther on Sanford and Son did
I'm raw dude, more juice than Sunkiss
You want this, so MJ kept sayin the rhyme flawless
Shit fly like MJ in his prime, "Off The Wall" wit mines
I'm grabbin my balls when I rhyme, nine nines bustin plus
Ball all the time, now stay on your mind like great sex
You aint on my mind I'm thinkin 'bout paychecks
Niggas large like an Adex Avirex jacket
Yo the gods they bust like latex sex packets
Emcees they don't rhyme and ball, they lyin' to y'all
They dyin' to ball, the rhyme we do all the time
We do all the fine bitches they fall in lines
Me and my mans is somethin like the Source Sports
We gettin money a long time and y'all short
My niggas bounce and full rise and y'alls fall
You funny doo, cuz really you think you can do me
When you roll a 500 that's really a 320
Should of let somebody else hook it
Numbers look crooked like King Kong shook it
I'm from where niggas bang gats when they celebrate
That's how they play, don't let it be a holiday
Thelonious niggas, if you testin us we get you laid back
Show you the definition of a pay back

Dilla part sounds like a Miles and Monk solo.. Just listen again.. His timing is impeccable!!!!

Dilla is a PROPHET

Common and SV Forever Dilla and Baatin Rest in beats your music will always lives on forever my brotha word up🙏🙏🙏🔥🎧🎶🎶💯💯💯🎤🎹🎵✊💯😇

This is food for All ears....

RIP "James Dewit Yancey" 😥 things just ain't the same

This track a true gem of gems 💎

0:21 “I got a bonus for the bitch that run up on us
I got a bonus for ya bitch that wanna bone us
It's the Thelonious, super microphonist” this flow is smooth af, rip to Dilla 🙏🏾💯

This kind of hip hop was on a whole nother level.. For real 🔥🔥

Dope never goes out of style.

" Numbers look crooked like King Kong shook it"... dope ass bar, still in 2020!!!

The way common effortlessly gets into the beats

Rest In Peace Thelonious Monk, you guys did Bee Bop, we doing Hip Hop. Thanks for being the catalyst for classic Rap Music named in your Honor. Rest brother, REST.🎹🎹🎹🎹

Classic Still here in 2019

People be sleeping on Dilla rap skills🔥

real hip hop

This song is fucking SPECIAL...🔥🔥

This is the one the best Hip Hop albums of all time for so many reasons. Just imagining the vibe in the studio when they made this, must've been off the chain.

Excellent track. Simply sublime! But the Albums One Day It'll All Make Sense and Ressurection were better.

Dillllllllaaaaaa

"its like a ritual,
conversation with the Most High makes me wanna cry,
i wonder why"

The definition of hip hop...

This is the hip hop version of a Mr. Rogers theme song.

Ahhh! So so good! Still listening in 2019

U running round like that nigga w his nipples pierced lol ! Classic late 90s 2000 hip hop ,new artists need to listen to this shit

Thanks for watch:https://youtu.be/6rSN1cHA3qs

The dreamcoat of Joseph the 11th son of Jacob...My father is Avra father of Multitudes...l'chaim...

The well and ladder of Jacob...the sacrifice 9f Jesus

Top 5 favorites...L'chaim from Jerusalem..I was born in Bethlehem the Anchor

🔥🔥🔥🔥 In 2019!!!!

classic

timeless music , absolutely BRILLIANT was/is this group

I respect all the producers out there man, but nobody can touch J Dilla on the boards. The man was a genius

"Nigga get loud, get knocked the FUCK OUT!" HAAAAAA!! 😩😂😂😂

So dope! "Sucka nigga you don't want it!" 😩😍😂

Yep 2019 20 still bumping it hip hop shit

Ok so i only recently heard this...I was like
"ok, this is dope, beat sick...wait who's the last Mccee? he killed it!"....RIP JayDee. Should have known you could rhyme.

Need more rhymes like this in 2019

Spiceadams and tony baker brought me here! 😂😂🙌🏾🙌🏾

Lyrics
Ha, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, play at your own risk
Act like you know bitch I'm on some grown shit
Ha, yeah, yeah, play at your own risk
Act like you know bitch I'm on some grown shit
It's the Thelonious, super microphonist
You know us, this rap shit we 'bout to own it
You know it, these Mini-Me's trying to clone us
I got a bonus for the bitch that run up on us
I got a bonus for your bitch that run up on us
It's the Thelonious, super microphonist

Uhh, no time to sleep cause if you sleep you don't eat
Gotta hold heat, just to make ends meet
Niggas living on the street while other niggas feast
Alright wit you it ain't alright wit me
Right, gotta make money all my life
Gotta stay fucking bitches many types
Yeah you know what I'm talking 'bout
Yup, stay turning these bitches out
Dick em down also dick em out
Throw something down whenever my dick's out
They know me so they restructure and reroute
They know me from Washington to down south
All the way to London to my nigga Common house
Right, it's like a game we never play out, out, out, out

Nigga no doubt, nigga get live or get knocked the fuck out
Word up, just be about what you about dog
Know what I'm saying, just play at your own risk
Act like you know bitch I'm on some grown shit
It's the Thelonious, super microphonist
You know us, this rap shit we 'bout to own it
You know it, cause you can feel it in your throat
Say it

I'm 'bout to let my mind float
(Com, say it)
Get your third eye poked
Fuck game, I assemble dope,
Ness, a nigga that's fresh as the 'fess
Studied this rap shit, no need to mic test
You can feel it in your chest
Your B I, feel it in her breasts
Plus you, rhyme like a nigga wit his nipples pierced
We lick off lyrics in the streets and real niggas hear us
Dreaming when I wrote this, box me if I go too wild
Still doing this shit like dude in wild style
Inviting wack niggas to dinner
I "Trick Daddy" emcees and I don't know, "Nann Nigga"
Who can take it where I take it
You better going to God like Mase did
Leaving crowds complacent
I move em above clouds whether on some surf and turf shit
Or thug style you can feel it in your body
Yeah y'all you can feel it in your body

Like if a 12 gauge shottie shell hit your body
You don't want no one to find your ass a hobby
Carbon copy, niggas trying to clone us
You know us, Thelonious, super microphone
You know this, rap shit we 'bout to own it dun, for real

Hey, it's like a ritual
You been invited let the mortal body stimulate the place
With the grace, nevertheless, I stress
Let the music put a smile on your face
As for the ritual, when it comes to spiritual excellence
You know I always leave you with the taste
I know you like it hard to the core
That's what you ask for, you aching for the best
Hurting like a sore in that ass, like a ritual
Conversation with the most high makes me wanna cry
I wonder why, you wanna get to paradise
But that itty bitty part of you don't wanna die
So pay attention to my word, cause it's the truth
Meditation ease the mind, and brings the youth
It's like a verse you could never read out of a book
Dropping the line in your mind like a fish hook
Word is birth, yo I do it till the break of day
Pay attention to your art, never go astray
Word is bond

Yo we do it and we don't quit
Sucker nigga you don't want it, it's Thelonious
Owning this rap shit, super microphonist, and we known to spit
I spit fire like Esther on Sanford and Son did
I'm raw dude, more juice than Sunkiss
You want this, so MJ kept saying the rhyme flawless
Shit fly like MJ in his prime, "Off The Wall" wit mines
I'm grabbing my balls when I rhyme, nine nines busting plus
Ball all the time, now stay on your mind like great sex
You ain't on my mind I'm thinking 'bout paychecks
Niggas large like an Adex Avirex jacket
Yo the gods they bust like latex sex packets
Emcees they don't rhyme and ball, they lyin' to y'all
They dyin' to ball, the rhyme we do all the time
We do all the fine bitches they fall in lines
Me and my mans is something like the Source Sports
We gettin money a long time and y'all short
My niggas bounce and full rise and y'alls fall
You funny doo, cause really you think you can do me
When you roll a 500 that's really a 320
Should of let somebody else hook it
Numbers look crooked like King Kong shook it
I'm from where niggas bang gats when they celebrate
That's how they play, don't let it be a holiday
Thelonious niggas, if you testing us we get you laid back
Show you the definition of a pay back

Rip to Baatin and Dilla.. I Still work out to this shit! I love yall FOREVER!!!!! TURN IT UP)))))))))

God damn com...killing it like Michael myers..

Ooooooohhhhh!!!🤟😝🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thank you for everythings Mr Dilla

Great shit!!!

<3 Black Hearts 😎😇😈

The morning can be the best times for the right changes in these times. There's special things for us all... I'm the one always around... Is it brand new things like the withering experiences we should garbage.. Or probably maybe even deny.???? I got some special request, been listening to for a bit. This is just for the listeners out there..

2019 still on repeat

I always wonder about the Dislikes... who the fuck doesn't love this song?

Common is definetaly the best

"you rhyme like a nigga with his nipples pierced"-common sense

Common.........

Commons verse was hilarious. One of his best.

J Dilla murdered this joint 🔥

This is what happens when you put a production genius with lyrical greatness. RIP Dilla 👑

I spit fire like Esther on Sanford and son did!,,," This shit is Dragonfire",,,#bestshitever

Yess lawd

Jay ALL OVER this song

This is an only song that Common and the original lineup of Slum Village would collab together during J Dilla and Baatin lifetime!!!

Incredible 👣

J Dilla 🔥🔥🔥

Dilla went off. Definitely the best verse I've heard from him

Happy birthday Jay Dee!! Forever remembered

2019 🎧

J dilla

master piece

mates piece of all time

Quest Love made this album a classic! Let’s give props!

Dilla was from another universe with this beat and is on the Mount Rushmore of beatmakers. Common and Slum Village are rhyming extraterrestrials

dilla 😍😍😍

Best lyrics Common and J Dilla Futuristic yet Historic all @ the same Time... Knowledge then Wisdom Real Shit Underground Railroad! Over Stand Stay Learning

Common Ft Talib Kweli ft Mos Def ft Dj Dilla beats............WORD LIFE!!!!!

Greatest producer of all time r.i.p J Dilla

Which verse is J dilla? I don't know what his voice sounds like I've only heard his beats

The final verse.

SpiceAdams sent me here 😎

Conversation with the MOST HIGH makes me want to cry.

2018 still 🔥🔥 asf

Real hip hop. Some many good ones in this era.

the soulquarians represent!

Dilla and Thelonious Monk... they were the best at what they did, and I'll be forever gratefull for those songs, for those master pieces

All the way from the NYC oh I mean Chi-Town 😄

*BAATIN*

hiphop 2018

My job is to listen.