Do For You chords by Splash!
Verse 1
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G
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Uh, uh, uh, yeah, uh, uh
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What up brothers, sisters, we at it again
A tribe called Quest,
I need my pad and my pen
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My man Knife's cookin' up
the beat in the blend
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Come on, music like this should be
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considered a sin
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Wait, you probably thought
we'd just be bustin' our guns
Push an X, drop Alexa,
we out for the ones, or
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We underground,
neo -soulcat burglars
Veggie burger murderers,
spoken word verbalists
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Nah, they do Splash revolutionary
Petition boycott his legacy legendary
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Don't care about the ice or the
cream like Ben & Jerry
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He don't sound like
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them other young boys
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Super earrings, the juice for decoys
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Well, I think Splash is a B -boy Bronx River,
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nigga
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Train tracks, spray can, nigga
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Crazy leg breakdance, nigga
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I'm all of the above,
can't classify, nigga
Pigeonhole
Splash, get your casket ready, nigga
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Plus your pacifier,
you sucker -ass nigga
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Yeah, how did you figure?
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This fat jizzo is your average artiste
I ain't all war and I ain't all peace
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Every song that I write
ain't made for parties
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Chirac club, boogie and dance
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Should've dumbed down
my lyrics to impress
SoundScan
It's not gonna happen
Word is born, it's like
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Splash doin' a song with P .M. Dawn
Or me dressin' in leather
like Nine Inch Nails
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Cause some A &R told me
that's what sells
Well, all I need is ten minus one wonder
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To dig hip -hop out
of this bullshit tundra
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It's like, it's like,
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it's like I can't be you
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and you can't be me, do you man?
Come on homes,
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be yourself man, check, check, check
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I'm trying not to lose my head,
uh -huh -huh
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So be yourself girl, come on honey,
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be yourself girl, check, check
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With so much drama would
this music be?
It's kinda hard being
splashed to the fucking G
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But uh, there's no escape,
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I hear the same backwash bullshit
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Every single day
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Have your ears gone astray
called to LA
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so we can find a way selling
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your soul for radio play
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Retire like Jay star listen
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to Green Day
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Splash is defined as a hip -hop historian.
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Give it a year.
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You will be playing accordions
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for an imaginary audience
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Be yourself bro.
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Make your own coordinates
through this hip -hop metropolis
categorized
cuz they all full of politics
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Europe and if the stock market crash
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will you niggas wake up
and stop writing trash?
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Oh, I forgot, simplicity sells originality
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I rock bells like LL, I don't lady -maid
But I bump rocks saying Chante,
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it's the K -Slay
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I can't be you and you can't be me,
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do you, man?
Come on, hoes, be yourself,
man, check, check, check
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I'm trying not to lose my head,
uh -huh -huh
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So be yourself, girl, come on, honey,
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be yourself, girl, check,
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Cause if you ridin' coattails,
mo' cells,
when will this end?
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I say I ain't heard a real
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rap banger on wax
since I was ten
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All around the world, same song,
so please sing along
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This cat had a nerve, word to get fresh,
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and hadn't even heard of Doug E. Fresh
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Try to clown, say I sound like Mos Def,
thanks for the compliment
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You dumb asshole, look too rascal,
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Mos Def is definitely hip -hop
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Stick to your surfboards and flip -flops
Then it hit him like a car crash,
he said
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You know I'm feelin' you,
Uncle Sunsplash
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At last, he saw what rap went to
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So I sprinkled that rap voodoo
I hope you all catch it like the flu do
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Thanks, Uncle Splash,
you're the greatest
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It's like, it's like, it's like
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I can't be you
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and you can't be me, do you, man?
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Come on, hoes, be yourself, man
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Check, check,
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I'm trying not to lose my head
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Uh -huh -huh, so be yourself, girl
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Come on, honey, be yourself, girl
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Check, check
Outro 1
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