Be Somebody

## Song by Fort Minor featuring Holly Brook, Tak and Lupe Fiasco

"**Be Somebody**" is a song by Fort Minor, released as the 11th track from their 2005 mixtape *We Major* and the special edition of their debut studio album *The Rising Tied*. It features guest vocals from Holly "Skylar Grey" Brook Hafermann, Tak, and Lupe Fiasco.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]

Uh, MS, Lupe

You know I'm a fan man, I'm a real fan

[Hook: Lupe Fiasco, *Holly Brook, Tak*]

(*Gonna be somebody*)

Feel real honored to be up in here

(*Gonna be somebody*)

You know what I'm saying?

They had to bring out the expensive mics for this one

(*Gonna be somebody*)

You know what I'm saying?

The seven thousand dollar headphones for this one here

(*Gonna be somebody*)

Know what I'm saying?

Come on, talk to me

[Verse 1: Mike Shinoda]

This is the story of them against us, win or lose

Forcing your feet into someone else's shoes

Everybody's got something to say

That we ought to 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's too much to take?

Too much weight? Ladies and gentlemen

If anybody can hear me right now, please shout back

We're not the only ones 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 want to do is push you to be that

And all you want to do is scream back

[Hook: Holly, Tak, *Mike*]

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*)

[Verse 2: Mike]

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 the 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 achieve

Some opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen

And all they want to do is push you to be that

And all you want to do is scream back

[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]

Ugh, they gon' think you're crazy mumbling to yourself

In the basement all day, uh-uh-uh'in to yourself

My pops didn't dig it, was shoveling to myself

My boys used to get it, they dug it because they felt

My undertaking took me, I was making in my stealth

A wealth of rhymes of crazy, I would chuckle to myself (Ha)

Then they went into the mental Rolodex

See I'm know 'em by heart, like a brain in my chest

Then I took them to school where subjects was gettin' felt (Ugh)

Books under my seat, notebook laying on my desk

My teacher's like, "Mr. Jaco?"

"Yes?"

"With all that knowledge, you ain't tryna go to college?

Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lot of dollars?

Rather degrade women and glorify violence?"

"Well, the work that works for me might not work for you

No homework, I got work to do"

[Hook: Holly, Tak, *Mike*]

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*)

[Outro: Mike]

And I'm 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