Roots - Somebody's Got To Do It lyrics

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[Hook:]<br />

Somebody's gotta be there when it gets ugly<br />

Somebody's gotta be there when it gets bloody<br />

Somebody's gotta get their hands dirty<br />

Yo, it's a fucked up job but somebody's gotta do it<br />

Somebody's gotta come up with a plan<br />

And be there when the shit hits the fan<br />

I hope ya'll out there understand<br />

Look man it's a fucked up job, but somebody's gotta do it<br />

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[Riq Gees:]<br />

Yeah ya'll, ideal for a lyrical perfectionist<br />

Raw, that's what every soldier in my collective is<br />

Thought, control level is that of a gold medalist<br />

My level headedness make it come off so effortless<br />

The rebel is a opposite extreme of devilish<br />

Back setting it with the answer to your deficit<br />

My track record is hot shit, consecutive<br />

Smug, I got game just like a record executive<br />

A kiss to the feminine girls loving a gentlemen<br />

A genius slash gangsta with a skill for swindling<br />

Bet on Black<br />

Bet these cats that's all gelatin<br />

Will fall back spittin' them raps that's unintelligent<br />

Raps that cap, rabid rattlin' out the gattlin'<br />

Crippling rhymes whistlin' past, blow you back in<br />

Smellin' your blood now I'm huntin'<br />

Blowin' your front in for frontin' what up cousin?<br />

Oh, now it's nothin'<br />

Yo, you can't go beyond a point of no returning<br />

I flip like my name Turner<br />

That's for certain nigga, Ted Turner, Nat Turner, nigga Ike Turner<br />

The raw sojourner for truth<br />

The mic burner<br />

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[Repeat Hook]<br />

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[Jean Grae:]<br />

Mic malevolence defies violence I inherited<br />

Others just rentin' it like rooms at the Sheraton<br />

I gotta jones like Vanessa in the devil in-<br />

And y'all cold like a show in the Netherlands<br />

Cold shoulders and frozen aortic valves -<br />

So I don't form pals - conform to norms - morals different<br />

Gifted - use it to shift shit a mutant shape shifter when I spit it I'm liquid<br />

You could lick a million shots at the character of the body shell<br />

They'll just richochette nigga aura's hard as hell<br />

Before there was ain't hard to tell<br />

The mic's cycle coincided right with mine as well<br />

Since a minor I walked with the spine upstraight<br />

I learned to rhyme to feed the dinner plate<br />

I scraped barrel - even dined up on wine and steaks<br />

Cuz in the bone same marrow that apartheid chased<br />

The narrow margin with the haves and the have nots<br />

Will get smaller as I approach - so watch your stash box<br />

Fox logo if your fave is local<br />

Get bruised till you're the color of the Laker's logo<br />

This is work niggas<br />

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[Repeat Hook]<br />

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[Mac:]<br />

I made it - ain't nobody believe in me<br />

But this rap game is like selling coke legally<br />

Ain't no innovations - that takes concentration<br />

Nigga's celebrating not knowing the time they wasting<br />

Killin' mics is one of my aesthetics<br />

Rip very live so I'm an entertainer like Cedric<br />

Shit they play on radio's now give me a headache<br />

Can't slow me down I know where I'm headed<br />

The profit on kill if you let it<br />

Nigga's feeling energetic<br />

Wanna rumble - guns will come out<br />

Here come the paramedics<br />

I'm just trying to live like I've Devin<br />

Tired of my people failin'<br />

We all sin - the devil, what di I tell em<br />

Somebody gotta get their hands dirty and shoes muddy<br />

I see things vividly, ya'll vision is blurry<br />

Even if you hate - through my music you gone love<br />

Everybody with me and they was with me when it was ugly<br />

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[Repeat Hook]