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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