Be Somebody

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Background

In late 2006, Clear Channel Music posted the entire The Rising Tied album complete with commentaries from Mike Shinoda before each song.[1] On "Be Somebody", he said, "The bonus tracks… These are the tracks that didn’t make the cut, uhm, because… simply because I didn’t wanna have, you know, like 21 songs or whatever on the record, but I hope everybody gets a chance to hear these, especially this song ‘Be Somebody’. Uhm, Lupe Fiasco is,.. he’s just the greatest guy. Uhm, I can’t say enough about this guy. He’s technically so talented, his heart is in the right place, he’s entertaining, and he killed it on this song. He writes in the same way that Jay writes, in a sense that he doesn’t put anything down, he just goes in a booth and kinda thinks about things and lays them down. He’ll get to let’s say, a verse is 16 bars. He’ll just sit there and vibe out to the music and he’ll tell you to record and he’ll put down the first four bars, and then he’ll stop and then he’ll vibe out on those 4 and add another 2, 4, 5, 6 bars, so he just kinda pieces it together and by the end he was probably finished with the verse from beginning to the end in I’d say less than 30 minutes. And he never puts a word down on paper. "

"Be Somebody" is one of two Fort Minor songs to feature Lupe Fiasco, the other one being "Spraypaint & Inkpens". The lyrics contains reused lines from Mike's collaboration with DJ Vice, "Freestyle".

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Title Album Length Recorded Released Notes
Be Somebody The Rising Tied 3:15 2005 November 28, 2005
Be Somebody The Rising Tied (Non-PA Version) 3:15 2005 November 28, 2005
  • Censored.
Be Somebody DJ Green Lantern Presents Fort Minor: We Major 3:12 2005 October 30, 2005
  • Tak was left uncredited.
Be Somebody Instrumental Album: The Rising Tied 3:11 2005
  • Official instrumental version.

Personnel

Lyrics

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Uh! M.S., Lupe,
You know...I'm a fan man, I'm a real fan, (Gonna be somebody)
I feel real honored to be up in here, you know what I'm sayin'? (Gonna be someone)
They had to bring out the expensive mics for this one,
You know what I'm sayin? The $7000 headphones for this one here, (Gonna be somebody, gonna be someone)
You know what I'm sayin?
Come on..talk to em'!

This is the story of them against us, win or lose,
Forcing your feet into someone else's shoes,
Everybody's got somethin' to say,
That we aughta live their way,
What we're doing's not "okay",
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
You ever feel like the pressure is too much to take,
Too much weight?
Ladies and gentleman,
If anybody can hear me right now please shout back,
We're not the only one's feeling so trapped,
In a dream of somebody else...infact,
They got their heads full of some overblown scheme,
Opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I can't,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

We don't sleep to dream,
We sleep to build stamina,
Energy to do our thing,
Get your camera,
Cause this ride is about to begin,
Sit down and buckle it in,
Let me say it again,
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
When I was young,
They said the odds of making it were slim to none,
Ladies and...fuck it,
I'm tired of them saying the dream you have doesn't exist,
Telling you you're worthless, telling you should quit,
Basically telling you that you'll never be shit!
Really, they're pissed 'cause they'll never acheive,
Some opportunity they missed back when they sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Uh!
They're gonna think you're crazy mumblin to yourself,
In the basement all day 'uh-uh-uh'in to yourself,
My pop's didn't dig it, was shovelin' to myself,
My boy's used to get it, they dug it because they felt,
My undertaking took me I was makin in my stealth,
A wealth of rhymes, of crazy I would chuckle to myself, (ha)
Then they went into the mental rolodex,
See I knew em' by heart like a brain in my chest,
Then I, took em' to school where subjects was getting felt,
Books under my seat, notebook laying on my desk,
My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"
"Yes?"
"With all that knowledge, you aint tryin' to college,
Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lotta dollars,
Rather degrade woman and glorify violence?"
Well the work that works for me, might not work for you,
No homework, I got work to do!

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I can't,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.
(Finally done)

Yeah this one goes out to those fantastic human beings,
That keep us down and hold us back,
And give us fuel for what we do...thanks!

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Green Lantern!

Uh! M.S., Lupe,
You know...I'm a fan man, I'm a real fan, (Gonna be somebody)
I feel real honored to be up in here, you know what I'm sayin'? (Gonna be somebody)
They had to bring out the expensive mics for this one, (Gonna be somebody)
You know what I'm sayin? The $7000 headphones for this one here, (Gonna be somebody)
You know what I'm sayin?
Come on..talk to em'!

This is the story of them against us, win or lose,
Forcing your feet into someone else's shoes,
Everybody's got somethin' to say,
That we aughta live their way,
What we're doing's not "okay",
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
You ever feel like the pressure is too much to take,
Too much weight?
Ladies and gentleman,
If anybody can hear me right now please shout back,
We're not the only one's feeling so trapped,
In a dream of somebody else... in fact,
They got their heads full of some overblown scheme,
Opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I cant,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

We don't sleep to dream,
We sleep to build stamina,
Energy to do our thing,
Get your camera,
Cause this ride is about to begin,
Sit down and buckle it in,
Let me say it again,
In this world everybody's got a chip on,
Both sides of their neck,
Got no respect, wait up a sec!
When I was young,
They said the odds of making it were slim to none,
Ladies and...fuck it,
I'm tired of them saying the dream you have doesn't exist,
Telling you you're worthless, saying you should quit,
Basically telling you that you'll never be shit!
Really, they're pissed 'cause they'll never acheive,
Some opportunity they missed back when they sixteen,
And all they wanna do is push you to be that,
And all you wanna do is scream back...

Uh!
They're gonna think you're crazy mumblin' to yourself,
In the basement all day 'uh-uh-uh'in to yourself,
My pop's didn't dig it, was shovelin' to myself,
My boy's used to get it, they dug it cause they felt,
My undertaking took me I was makin' in my stealth,
A wealth of rhymes, of crazy I would chuckle to myself, (ha)
Then they went into the mental rolodex,
See I knew em' by heart like a brain in my chest,
Then I, took em' to school where subjects was getting felt,
Books under my seat, notebook laying on my desk,
My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"
"Yes?"
"With all that knowledge, you aint tryin' to college,
Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lotta' dollars,
Rather degrade woman and glorify violence?"
Well the work that works for me, might not work for you,
No homework, I got work to do!

Gonna be somebody...
For anybody telling me I cant,
Gonna be someone...
For anyone who told me I had no chance,
Gonna be somebody...
I'm telling you the time has come, (like that)
Gonna be someone...
(Uh) And maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done.

This is an invasion! Fort Minor - The Rising Tied,
In stores November, Twenty Two.

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