Straighten It Out

Uh, yeah, Uh-huh (Straighten It Out)

Uh-huh, we got Pete Rock and C.L Smooth (Straighten It Out)

And we're here to tell you to (Straighten It Out)

And that's a fact, baby (Straighten It Out)

Now you're gonna kick some lyrics (Straighten It Out)

Like this, c'mon

Walk the fine, short line, and put the needle to the grind

Representin' one kind, seeing eye for the blind

Witness what I carry on bears a further purpose

From how we do slam a few, then you want to purchase

A dialogue of funk, you love to pop it in your trunk

I win, more disciplined than a Show-lin monk (oh)

Pete Rock and C.L, are well set to spark it (uh-huh)

The powerful target to destroy the black market

But when you say black, listen, I don't know, you lose me (what?)

I guess another beggar can afford to be choosey

I come to the maximum, artist on a major label

Any duplication of this one is fatal

On one to five, I gotta hit yo' live

Beat your ass with my tape, any race or shape (uh-huh)

'Cause if they got mine, they got yours too (right?)

But together here's what we gotta do

Tell 'em, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

You know this is the word (say what?) straighten it out

That's right y'all, straighten it out (say what?)

You got to straighten it out

Everybody must straighten it out (say what?)

Straighten it out, yeah

Straighten it out, it's like that (say what?)

The funk legacy I pass on, clearance for high rates

Every time we sample all the past-time greats (yeah)

Stick it in the SP-1200 beat, I make a loop

Lovely, where the Troop in a Lexus coupe

Just a little bit, set to make a whole lot happen

The musical inside my rappin', written by the C.L, produced by the PL

And add in any credit that you heard thus far (uh-huh)

I start from scratch, 'cause the bass line's critical (yeah)

Better than the original, who first made it (uh-huh)

But now you want to sue me, but fans never boo me (yeah)

Believe I know the times, we've been broke, too, G (that's right)

Here's another sample clear, see ya, get the hell outta here

Like a bootleg, you're over for the year (wow)

You'll only get the credit where the credit is due

So, listen, what I shout out is true

Yeah, true, straighten it out

You got to tell 'em to straighten it out

(Say what?) straighten it out

You got to tell 'em to straighten it out

(Say what?) straighten it out

That's right, straighten it out

C'mon (say what?) straighten it out

That's right, straighten it out

Straighten it out (say what?)

Like the strands of lamb's wool, I'm thinkin' that's said

Here to go to the head and count the locks on a dread

I and I'd 'mit to verify, goin' to multiply

A theory many thought was a conspiracy

Here to let you know that it applies to all of us

You're no exceptions to the rule and that's a plus

'Cause who Jah bless, let no one curse

Straighten out what I will be about, reckon above the clout (yeah)

And let the management work for me (yeah)

Because I don't need the unnecessary hostility (uh-huh)

A proper marketing plan, so we can gobble up the dough

Straighten it out, so everybody knows

The kids are official with the purpose of a smooth surface

Kickin' the service one time to make 'em nervous

We're finally here and very long overdue

Pete Rock, this one's for the crew

You gotta straighten it out

Everybody must straighten it out (say what?)

You gotta straighten it out

Everybody must straighten it out (say what?)

Straighten it out, you got to

Straighten it out, c'mon (say what?)

Straighten it out

All black people must straighten it out

Say what?

Straighten it out

Everybody must straighten it out

The YG's, they must straighten it out

The Hilltop, they must straighten it out

The whole money-earnin' must straighten it out

Everybody must straighten it out

Come on, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

Ah, yeah, straighten it out

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