Key: E major•
Verse 1
"Like they used to say" *repeated in
[Common]
We dealin wit some very
critical and crucial times
Some of the most critical and crucial
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I- E experience
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Tried to tell him about the C- S- E experience,
Verse 2
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Yo I'm the rap profession,
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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
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I drop heavy in spots you scared
to put your weight
There's only so much
ice you can skate on
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Shit cats right for you, you say wrong
No time to debate on,
who's your pop and who's not
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I Cold Get Dumb, like a brother in prison
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to hold his son
Sacrificin like Abe did his oldest son
Verse 3
I start thinkin back to
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* "Silly Hoes" sample* say what?
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Yeah "Like they
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* "Ain't No Half- Steppin" sample* yeah "Like
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they used to say"
Verse 4
triple darkness
All your homeboys'll bite us,
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so what's up wit that?
Nice way of sayin "Big, bring
a rougher track"
I'ma double that
Jigga- jigga Joe cut
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My sound surround you like
racism, you feel it all around you
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I go into a soundproof booth
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Track the strange hoes wit
headwraps and Bangols
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Hip- hop is gettin strangled by this
Puff Combs syndrome
Niggas Been Around The World
actin like they never been home
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I ain't hatin cuz I can only love niggas
It's just outta the game,
I wanna sub niggas
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I be dub figure rusty to adjust
the in- dustry
And speak up,
like when my homey's musty
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Here we go yeah * "Roxanne Roxanne" sample* yeah,
dig it
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"Like they used to say"
they used to say"
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"F- R- E- S- H" [Fresh 3 MC's] "Like
they used to say"
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"My Adidas, walk through concrete doors
"Like they used to say"
Verse 5
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*repeating "zen zen zen zen"
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C#m
about 20 sec.*
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"Like they used to say" 3x
Verse 6
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Yo yo check it
Speakin the facts,
Dug Inf, Luke Lumberjack
Layin on passed out nights wak
the feeb? in fat
In shows I get more hoes holes than
a seam in the matt
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Raps develop like film (so what?) so call
me Instant Common
This business of pimps and hoes,
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Holdin up cops, I'm from the 'Go,
it don't stop
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Contract ain't show enough options,
It's gon' be some Shook,
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Askin How Come like Wyclef, they'll be Gone before
November (yeah)
Name'll be in sentences wit
the word "remember"
Damn!
Verse 7
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"Hot damn hoe here we go again"
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E
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C#m
"You gots to chill"
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[PMD] "Like they used to say"
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"Boyz in the hood are always hard"
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"One for all and all"
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[Brand Nubian] "Like they used to say"
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"Zoom zoom zoom, zoom zoom zoom
zoo zoom" [MC E- Z]
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"Like they used to say"
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"I get money,
F#
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money I got" [Milk- D] "Like they used to say"
plug two" [De La Soul] "Like they used to say"
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"For all the pioneers,
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I'm goin way back" [Just- Ice] "Like they used to say"
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"I think that's about as far back as
C#m
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"Like they used to say" 3x
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"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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