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Like They Used To Say (Radio Version) chords by 
Common 
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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
F
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
G
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,
F
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
G
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,
G
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"
G
[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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