Album Cover Straighten It Out

Straighten It Out

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

5

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 ass 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 rappin'

Written by the C.L., produced by the P.R.

And add in any credit that you heard thus far

I start from scr