Get Busy Lyrics - Rising Down - The Roots

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? 

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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 

Southside get busy y'all 

Northside get busy y'all 

Westside get busy y'all 

Worldwide get busy y'all 

Get busy y'all 

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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 feelin' of course is 

Somethin' that's hard to describe 

Photos 

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. DuBois 

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 

Southside get busy y'all 

Northside get busy y'all 

Westside get busy y'all 

Worldwide get busy y'all 

Get busy y'all 

Get busy y'all 

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Now, on your mark, uh-huh, get set 

Go cop everythin' 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 hoe? 

And the hoe'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' 

Southside get busy y'all 

Northside get busy y'all 

Westside get busy y'all 

Worldwide get busy y'all 

Get busy y'all 

Get busy y'all 

Get busy y'all 

Get busy y'all