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THE ROOTS lyrics : "Somebody's Got To Do It"

[Hook:]
Somebody's gotta be there when it gets ugly
Somebody's gotta be there when it gets bloody

Somebody's gotta get their hands dirty
Yo, it's a $#&@ed up job but somebody's gotta do it
Somebody's gotta come up with a plan

And be there when the %#@! hits the fan
I hope ya'll out there understand
Look man it's a $#&@ed up job, but somebody's gotta do it


[Riq Gees:]
Yeah ya'll, ideal for a lyrical perfectionist

Raw, that's what every soldier in my collective is
Thought, control level is that of a gold medalist
My level headedness make it come off so effortless

The rebel is a opposite extreme of devilish
Back setting it with the answer to your deficit
My track record is hot %#@!, consecutive

Smug, I got game just like a record executive
A kiss to the feminine girls loving a gentlemen
A genius slash gangsta with a skill for swindling

Bet on Black
Bet these cats that's all gelatin
Will fall back spittin' them raps that's unintelligent

Raps that cap, rabid rattlin' out the gattlin'
Crippling rhymes whistlin' past, blow you back in
Smellin' your blood now I'm huntin'

Blowin' your front in for frontin' what up cousin?
Oh, now it's nothin'
Yo, you can't go beyond a point of no returning

I flip like my name Turner
That's for certain ^!$$%, Ted Turner, Nat Turner, ^!$$% Ike Turner
The raw sojourner for truth

The mic burner

[Repeat Hook]


[Jean Grae:]
Mic malevolence defies violence I inherited

Others just rentin' it like rooms at the Sheraton
I gotta jones like Vanessa in the devil in-
And y'all cold like a show in the Netherlands

Cold shoulders and frozen aortic valves -
So I don't form pals - conform to norms - morals different
Gifted - use it to shift %#@! a mutant shape shifter when I spit it I'm liquid

You could lick a million shots at the character of the body shell
They'll just richochette ^!$$% aura's hard as hell
Before there was ain't hard to tell

The mic's cycle coincided right with mine as well
Since a minor I walked with the spine upstraight
I learned to rhyme to feed the dinner plate

I scraped barrel - even dined up on wine and steaks
Cuz in the bone same marrow that apartheid chased
The narrow margin with the haves and the have nots

Will get smaller as I approach - so watch your stash box
Fox logo if your fave is local
Get bruised till you're the color of the Laker's logo

This is work ^!$$%s

[Repeat Hook]


[Mac:]
I made it - ain't nobody believe in me

But this rap game is like selling !@%!e legally
Ain't no innovations - that takes concentration
^!$$%'s celebrating not knowing the time they wasting

Killin' mics is one of my aesthetics
Rip very live so I'm an entertainer like Cedric
%#@! they play on radio's now give me a headache

Can't slow me down I know where I'm headed
The profit on kill if you let it
^!$$%'s feeling energetic

Wanna rumble - guns will come out
Here come the paramedics
I'm just trying to live like I've Devin

Tired of my people failin'
We all sin - the devil, what di I tell em
Somebody gotta get their hands dirty and shoes muddy
I see things vividly, ya'll vision is blurry
Even if you hate - through my music you gone love

Everybody with me and they was with me when it was ugly

[Repeat Hook]

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