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Get Busy

This version of Get Busy was released by The Roots in 2008.

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Look, my squad half-Mandrill, half-Mandela
My band ’bout seventy strong just like Fela
Yeah, part Melle-Mel, part Van Halen
and we represent Illadel, where they still rebellin’
Hey yo, Sicko show like Mike Moore
My city ain’t nothin’ like yours
Slippin’ into darkness like war
Nightcrawl with the lights off
You see a lot of life lost for the white horse
Regardless, the charges makin’ us all targets
All on the red carpet, guns from the black market
Eh, who got the politicians in they back pocket?
Pimp slap, pump that, give me that profit
When you make contact, give me that gossip
If you break contract, you’ll be that hostage
They gettin’ busy and the city is raw
Better dead bolt the door, it ain’t safe no more

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Approach with caution, be cautious, when talkin’ to bosses
I feel I’ve been through a metamorphis
I’m mutated by unknown forces, the feeling of course is
Something that’s hard to describe
I’m half-dead, never felt more alive
Reborn, remove the gold coins from my eyes
I’ve been down, but now I’m back up
I’m ’bout to act up, boy, you better back up
When you see me, set up shop, know to pack up
‘Cause I crack up, when a rapper get slapped up
Number one reason y’all should give rap up
Dice, it’s mines, I got it all wrapped up
I’m kinda like W.E.B. Du Bois
Meets Heavy D and the Boyz, smooth as a Rolls Royce
Built like a tank, smokin’ on dank
Walkin’ through the Guggenheim, Raw Life, Black Ink

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Now on your mark, uh-huh, get set
Go cop everything you ever heard by Peed Crakk
Dice Raw and Black, fuck the internet
Buy a baseball bat, break a bootlegger leg
All I listen to is vets, you’re fresh off the step
I’ll come directly at your OG neck
I’m used to the 1,2 check, not the 1,2 step
I’m strapped, I’ll leave every cat among you wet
Now let’s go, you know I’m politically incorrect
At the show, I start it with a “Can I get a ‘ho’?”
And the ho’s go retarded
The po-po tape off the stage for caution
It’s bad lands, North Philly get it in
It’s Crakk man, used to back spin
Now I spend stacks and stacks
and Uncle Sam tryin’ to tax all my hard earned raps
Damn, we makin’ Yens, Pesos, Euros, we representin’

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The Roots has released many songs over the years besides Get Busy. The Roots released songs from 2008 to 2008 spanning across albums like Final Conversation Of Kings, Rising Down, Directions To See A Ghost, Fasciinatiion, Day & Age, Melodia, Here We Stand, Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace, The Bedlam In Goliath, Fast Times At Barrington High, Tantrum Castle, LAX, Hideaway, All Or Nothing, Konk, Attack & Release, Join With Us, Everything Is Borrowed, Walk This Way, Break Up The Concrete, Midnight Boom, Lust, Lust, Lust, No Gift To Bring, The Rise & Fall Of Ruby Woo, ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols..., When The World Comes Down, The Script, Forth, Goodbye Blues, Visiter, Stay Positive, Consolers Of The Lonely, Doll Domination, No Time For Later, We Started Nothing, Never Going Back To OK, Oceans Will Rise, The Second Gleam, One Too Many Hearts, The Age Of The Understatement, I Don't Want To Go To School, No, Virginia..., Whisper War, This Is Not The World, RAK, Meet Me On The Left Coast, Shine A Light, Chasing Lights, The Cheetah Girls: One World, ...In Color, Strength In Numbers, Funplex, Black Roses, Warpaint, Can't Stop, Won't Stop, What's Your Medium?, The Virginia EP, 4:13 Dream, ...And A Happy New Year, Won't Be Pathetic Forever, and New York Hospitals. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Roots.

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