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'Stomp' opens with a pregame speech that frames the track as a call to action, its exhortation to seize the moment undercut by what follows. Black Thought's verse traces a descent into moral compromise, the narrator caught between aspiration and the pull of criminal life. The language is precise and self-aware; he measures himself against others, questions what he's become, and finds the answer troubling. When he asks "was this a matter of flesh and blood?", he's asking whether the violence that defines him is inevitable or chosen. Greg Porn's verse abandons restraint entirely. Where Black Thought observes his own corruption, Porn inhabits it fully, his delivery violent and unsparing. Heavy distorted guitar riffs and kick drums build beneath the verses, the production itself becoming aggressive. The track deepens the album's portrait of a man falling further into crime, each verse a step closer to the point of no return.
"Stomp" is a track by The Roots, from the album undun, released 2nd December 2011. Full lyrics are available below.
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