Straighten It Out - Pete Rock/C.L. Smooth

Uh yeah Uh-huh

We got Pete Rock and C L Smooth

And we're here to tell you to

And that's a fact baby

Now you're gonna kick some lyrics

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

Pete Rock and C L well set to spark it

The powerful target to destroy the black market

But when you say black listen

I don't know you lose me

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 ya live

Beat your a** with my tape any race or shape

Cuz if they got mine they got yours too

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 clearancy for high rates

Every time we sample all the past time greats

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 rapping

Written by the C L produced by the P R

And add in any credit that you heard thus far

I start from scratch cuz the bass line's critical

Better than the original who first made it

But now you want to sue me but fans never boo me

Believe I know the times we been broke too G

Here's another sample clear seeya

Get the hell outta here

Like a bootleg you're over for the year

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 gots 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 thinking that's said

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

I and I'd 'mit to verify going to multiply

A theory many thought 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

Cuz who Jah bless let noone curse

Straighten out what I be about reckon above the clout

And let the management work for me

Because I don't need the unnecessary hostility

A proper marketing plan so we can gobble up the dough

Straighten it out so everybody know

The kids are official with the purpose of a smooth surface

Kicking 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-earning must straighten it out

Everybody must straighten it out

Come on straighten it out

Ah yeah straighten it out

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