It's Like That (feat. Carl Thomas)-De La Soul/Carl Thomas

[00:00.00] [Dave ] It's like, [00:20.19]New York without a [00:21.15]New York yanks [00:22.17]Better yet, [00:22.71]New York without the [00:23.61]New York franks [00:24.69]It's like hot summers without no [00:26.37]A.C Or never hitting numbers when you go to [00:28.83]A.C It's like six years of your life, go ask [00:31.71]Rob I'm like "Yo how is it?" he like "It's like hard" [00:34.65]Trying for that queen but you nothing but a man [00:37.05]You wanna keep it clean but you can't [00:39.00]Why it gotta be, like, that [00:41.16]And what the life, see life is like a [00:42.75]J shot Shooters son, they got [00:44.64]One point one second, you half court [00:46.92]I'm feeling the adrenaline like you half court [00:49.26]Like pink slips and dipping these ink tips to paper [00:51.93]Imagine if we **** around and los [00:53.64]Hip-hop Imagine if it didn't exist [00:56.25]Imagine nothing shining your wrist [00:57.72]See, imagining to you is a risk [00:59.64]But think about it, like no chrome rims [01:01.83]And tims would be construction boots (ill) [01:03.96]We probably wouldn't even substitute (ill) [01:06.72]For words we use defining our likes [01:08.37]I'm coal mining these mics [01:09.60]To keep that gold nugget like [01:10.98]Dave Megget [01:11.94]Giant like a mother****er, lik [01:13.41]Dave said it [01:14.43]But ya ain't listening, ya paper gon' stack [01:16.77]Why it gotta be like that? [01:18.36]That, dadadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dat [01:22.68]Dat, dadadat, dadat, dat, dadadat, dadadat, dat, dat, dadat, dadat [Chorus: Carl Thomas ] [01:28.86]Just running, running, fast as [01:30.78]I can I'm trying to be a person but [01:32.79]I gotta be the man [01:33.87]If I, can't stand the life that [01:35.70]I'm in I gotta keep running ‘cause [01:37.68]I'm still gon' win [01:38.70]Yes I got to go on (it's like that, it's like that) [01:43.47]Yes I got to go on (it's like that, it's like that) [Posdonus] [01:48.39]It's like, [01:49.14]Slick Rick without the eye patch [01:51.18]More like, saying slick shit you won't catch [01:53.73]It's like bed time without your [01:55.38]PJ's Or no fed timing in out the [01:57.81]PJ's It's like, one minute you got it, then you broke [02:01.17]Like what [02:01.53]I do with it? [02:01.86]I copped a few with it [02:03.72]Looking like a problem, but you won't get it solved [02:06.12]You working but you won't get the job [02:08.16]It's like, who would of thought (thought) [02:09.90]It you would of bought (bought) [02:11.28]Into my religion you'd be more like [02:12.96]God But you were steady swimming so you more like cod [02:15.90]See these fools is fish scale, converting to ish male [02:18.81]See I see it like, [02:20.01]A alike, B alike [02:21.36]I was taught, if you play alike, be alike [02:23.61]How they don't see it for one to go pop [02:25.92]And this is how you treat [02:27.00]Hip-hop? Imagine if you didn't have that phantom chrome sitting on a curb bitch [02:31.23]The word nigga wouldn't be a bit disturbing bitc [02:33.75]See them roots are like begging for the rain [02:35.79]You entering my kingdom just a begging for the reign [02:38.13]Putting shit stain to paper [02:39.75]Ink pain feeling like fifty-five licks on a slave nigga back [02:43.68]And not a one of y'all stopping to hate [02:45.72]But why it gotta be like that? [02:49.47]That, dadadat, dadat, dat, dat, dadat, dat, dadadat, dat, dat [02:53.91]Dadadat, dadat, dadadat, dat, dat, dat, dat, dat, dadat, dadat, dat [ Chorus] x2