Like They Used To Say (Radio Version) chords by Common
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Verse 1
"Like they used to say" *repeated in
(F major) background*
[Common]
We dealin wit some very
critical and crucial times
Some of the most critical and crucial
times I've ever seen (G major)
I wrote (B minor) Stoney Island on my guy
He was tryin me (E major) about the S-
(F major) I- E experience (G major)
Tried to tell him about the C- (B minor) S- E experience, (G major)
you (F major) know?
Verse 2
Yo I'm (F major) the rap pro (D major) fession,
(F major) I go the session
Study MC's like a (G major) god do (F major) lessons
Mic testin in the rain, I brainstorm
You feelin me out nigga?
We got the same form
I drop (D major) heavy (F major) in spots you scared
to put your weight
There's only so much
ice you can skate on
Shit cat (D major) s right for you, (F major) you say wrong
No time to debate on,
who's your pop and who's not
(G major) Or who shot Big and Tupac
Or (B minor) who this stud fuckin or
how much this crew (G major) got
(F major) That's hoe shit
That (G major) ain't me or the type
of niggas (B minor) I roll wit
I Cold Get (G major) Dumb, (F major) like a brother in prison
Who hasn't (D major) had a chance
(G major) to hold his (F major) son
Sacrificin like Abe did his oldest son
Tryin to hold my (D major) come, I think of raps
(F major) Seen the BDP cover and
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Verse 3
I start thinkin back to
(F major) * "Silly (D major) (G major) Hoes" sample* say what?
"Like (F major) they used to say"
"Kool G Rap an (D major) d Polo,
(F major) back again" [Kool G Rap]
Yeah "Like they (D major) (G major)
(F major) used to say"
* "Ain't No Half- Step (G major) pin" sample* yeah "Like
(F major) they (D major) used to say"
(Dig it, like they used to say) *Biz Markie (G major)
sample* "Like they (F major) used to say"
Verse 4
[Common] I walk through (G major)
triple darkness
(B minor) wit a childproof lighter
All your homeboys'll bite us,
(G major) so what's up wit (F major) that?
Your producer pumped (D major) the track
Told him, "Naw, I can (F major) 't fuck wit that"
Nice way of sayin "Big, bring
a rougher track"
My ball (D major) in my ear said "Enough
of that (G major) humble rap"
Now every single (F major) you drop
I'ma double that
Jigga- jigga Joe cut
(D major) the record down to
(G major) My sound sur (F major) round you like (G major)
racism, you feel it all around you
I go into (D major) a soundproof (G major) booth
and change (B minor) flows
Track the (G major) strange hoes (F major) wit
headwraps and Bangols
Hip- hop is (D major) gettin strangled (F major) by this
Puff Combs syndrome
Niggas Been Around The World
actin like they never been home
I (D major) ain't hatin cuz (F major) I can only love niggas
It's just outta the game,
I wanna sub niggas
I be dub figure (D major) rusty (F major) to adjust
the in- dustry
And speak up,
like when my homey's musty
Here we go yeah (D major) * "Roxan (F major) ne Roxanne" sample* yeah,
dig it
"Like they used to say" (G major) (F major) (D major)
(G major) "You don't want it" [T- La Rock] "Like
they used to say"
(F major) "F- R- E- (D major) S- H" (G major) [Fresh 3 MC's] "Like
they used to say"
(F major) "My Adidas, (D major) walk through concrete doors
and (G major) broke" [Run- DMC]
"Like they used to say"
(F major) [Common] Yo
Verse 5
(F major)
(G major) *repeating (B minor) "zen zen zen zen" (G major)
(B minor) for
(G major) about (F major) (G major) (B minor) 20 sec.*
"Like they (G major) used (F major) to (D major) say" (B minor) 3x (D major)
Verse 6
(G major) Yo yo check (F major) it
Appreciate the art that (D major) came through Puer
(G major) to Ricans and Blacks
Speakin the facts,
the sound is much deeper than (F major) wax
Dug Inf, Luke Lumberjack
(G major) I'm keepin the axe
Layin on passed out nights wak
(F major) in up reekin wit raps
Geek like the Fat (G major) Boys ?produce
the feeb? in fat
In shows I get more hoes holes than
a seam in the matt
Raps (F major) develop (G major) like film (so what?) so call
me Instant Common
This business of pimps and hoes,
I (F major) stick out like Bishop Juan
Talk to my (D major) nigga Ron about
openin (G major) shops
Hold (D major) in up cops, (G major) I'm from the 'Go,
it don't stop
Contract (F major) ain't show enough (D major) options,
(G major) it's time to pop guns
It's gon' be some Shook,
Lost (F major) and popped Ones
Askin How Come like (D major) Wyclef, they'll (G major) be Gone before
November (yeah)
Name'll be in sentences wit
the word "remember"
(D major) Wrote a letter to '88, let's get back,
love (G major) me tender
The letter came back three days (F major) later,
return to sender (G major)
Damn!
Verse 7
"Like they used to say" (G major)
"Hot (D major) damn hoe (B minor) here we go again"
[MC Lyte] "Like they used to say" (F major)
"I want it like (G major) that, I got it like that,
I (B minor) have it like that" [Kool Keith]
"Like they used to (G major) say"
"You (F major) gots (G major) to chill" (D major) (G major) (B minor)
[PMD] "Like they (G major) used to say" (F major)
(G major) "Boyz in the hood are always hard" (B minor)
[Eazy E] "Like they used to say" (G major)
(D major) "One for all and (B minor) all"
[Brand Nubian] "Like they used (G major) to say" (F major) (G major)
"Zoom (D major) zoom zoom, zoom (B minor) zoom zoom
zoo zoom" [MC E- Z]
"Like they used to say" (G major) (F major)
(G major) "I get (D major) money,
(E major) money I got" (B minor) [Milk- D] "Like they used to say" (F major) (G major)
"Plug (B minor) one,
plug two" [De La Soul] "Like they used to say"
(F major) "For all the pion (D major) eers,
I'm goin (B minor) way back" [Just- Ice] "Like they used to say"
"I think that's about (G major) as far back (B minor) as
we can go" (A flatdim) [Just- Ice]
"Like they (B minor) used to say" (G major) (B minor) 3x
"Yo what (G major) (F major) (G major) happene (B minor) d to the
beats" [Eric B.]
"Like they used to say"
PEACE!!! "Like they used to
say" "Like they used to say"
Like They Used To Say (Radio Version)
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