Like They Used To Say (Radio Version)

Like They Used To Say (Radio Version) easy guitar chords by Common

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  • G

  • Bm

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    • Verse 1

    "Like they used to say" *repeated in
    F

    background*

    [Common]

    We dealin wit some very

    critical and crucial times

    Some of the most critical and crucial
    G

    times I've ever seen
    Bm

    I wrote Stoney Island on my guy
    E

    He was tryin me about the S-
    F
    G

    I- E experience
    Bm
    G

    Tried to tell him about the C- S- E experience,
    F

    you know?
    Verse 2
    F
    D

    Yo I'm the rap profession,
    F

    I go the session
    G
    F

    Study MC's like a god do lessons

    Mic testin in the rain, I brainstorm

    You feelin me out nigga?

    We got the same form
    D
    F

    I drop heavy in spots you scared

    to put your weight

    There's only so much

    ice you can skate on
    D
    F

    Shit cats right for you, you say wrong

    No time to debate on,

    who's your pop and who's not
    G

    Or who shot Big and Tupac
    Bm

    Or who this stud fuckin or
    G

    how much this crew got
    F

    That's hoe shit
    G

    That ain't me or the type
    Bm

    of niggas I roll wit
    G
    F

    I Cold Get Dumb, like a brother in prison
    D

    Who hasn't had a chance
    G
    F

    to hold his son

    Sacrificin like Abe did his oldest son
    D

    Tryin to hold my come, I think of raps
    F

    Seen the BDP cover and
    Verse 3

    I start thinkin back to
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    D
    G

    * "Silly Hoes" sample* say what?
    F

    "Like they used to say"
    D

    "Kool G Rap and Polo,
    F

    back again" [Kool G Rap]
    D
    G

    Yeah "Like they
    F

    used to say"
    G

    * "Ain't No Half- Steppin" sample* yeah "Like
    F
    D

    they used to say"
    G

    (Dig it, like they used to say) *Biz Markie
    F

    sample* "Like they used to say"
    Verse 4
    G

    [Common] I walk through

    triple darkness
    Bm

    wit a childproof lighter

    All your homeboys'll bite us,
    G
    F

    so what's up wit that?
    D

    Your producer pumped the track
    F

    Told him, "Naw, I can't fuck wit that"

    Nice way of sayin "Big, bring

    a rougher track"
    D

    My ball in my ear said "Enough
    G

    of that humble rap"
    F

    Now every single you drop

    I'ma double that

    Jigga- jigga Joe cut
    D

    the record down to
    G
    F
    G

    My sound surround you like

    racism, you feel it all around you
    D
    G

    I go into a soundproof booth
    Bm

    and change flows
    G
    F

    Track the strange hoes wit

    headwraps and Bangols
    D
    F

    Hip- hop is gettin strangled by this

    Puff Combs syndrome

    Niggas Been Around The World

    actin like they never been home
    D
    F

    I ain't hatin cuz I can only love niggas

    It's just outta the game,

    I wanna sub niggas
    D
    F

    I be dub figure rusty to adjust

    the in- dustry

    And speak up,

    like when my homey's musty
    D
    F

    Here we go yeah * "Roxanne Roxanne" sample* yeah,

    dig it
    G
    F
    D

    "Like they used to say"
    G

    "You don't want it" [T- La Rock] "Like

    they used to say"
    F
    D
    G

    "F- R- E- S- H" [Fresh 3 MC's] "Like

    they used to say"
    F
    D

    "My Adidas, walk through concrete doors
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    and broke" [Run- DMC]

    "Like they used to say"
    F
    [Common] Yo
    Verse 5
    F

    G
    Bm
    G

    *repeating "zen zen zen zen"
    Bm

    for
    G
    F
    G
    Bm

    about 20 sec.*
    G
    F
    D
    Bm
    D

    "Like they used to say" 3x
    Verse 6
    G
    F

    Yo yo check it
    D

    Appreciate the art that came through Puer
    G

    to Ricans and Blacks

    Speakin the facts,
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    the sound is much deeper than wax

    Dug Inf, Luke Lumberjack
    G

    I'm keepin the axe

    Layin on passed out nights wak
    F

    in up reekin wit raps
    G

    Geek like the Fat Boys ?produce

    the feeb? in fat

    In shows I get more hoes holes than

    a seam in the matt
    F
    G

    Raps develop like film (so what?) so call

    me Instant Common

    This business of pimps and hoes,
    F

    I stick out like Bishop Juan
    D

    Talk to my nigga Ron about
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    openin shops
    D
    G

    Holdin up cops, I'm from the 'Go,

    it don't stop
    F
    D

    Contract ain't show enough options,
    G

    it's time to pop guns

    It's gon' be some Shook,
    F

    Lost and popped Ones
    D
    G

    Askin How Come like Wyclef, they'll be Gone before

    November (yeah)

    Name'll be in sentences wit

    the word "remember"
    D

    Wrote a letter to '88, let's get back,
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    love me tender
    F

    The letter came back three days later,
    G

    return to sender

    Damn!
    Verse 7
    G

    "Like they used to say"
    D
    Bm

    "Hot damn hoe here we go again"
    F

    [MC Lyte] "Like they used to say"
    G

    "I want it like that, I got it like that,
    Bm

    I have it like that" [Kool Keith]
    G

    "Like they used to say"
    F
    G
    D
    G
    Bm

    "You gots to chill"
    G
    F

    [PMD] "Like they used to say"
    G
    Bm

    "Boyz in the hood are always hard"
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    [Eazy E] "Like they used to say"
    D
    Bm

    "One for all and all"
    G
    F
    G

    [Brand Nubian] "Like they used to say"
    D
    Bm

    "Zoom zoom zoom, zoom zoom zoom

    zoo zoom" [MC E- Z]
    G
    F

    "Like they used to say"
    G
    D

    "I get money,
    E
    Bm
    F
    G

    money I got" [Milk- D] "Like they used to say"
    Bm

    "Plug one,

    plug two" [De La Soul] "Like they used to say"
    F
    D

    "For all the pioneers,
    Bm

    I'm goin way back" [Just- Ice] "Like they used to say"
    G
    Bm

    "I think that's about as far back as
    Abdim

    we can go" [Just- Ice]
    Bm
    G
    Bm

    "Like they used to say" 3x
    G
    F
    G
    Bm

    "Yo what happened to the

    beats" [Eric B.]

    "Like they used to say"

    PEACE!!! "Like they used to

    say" "Like they used to say"

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