[00:00.32]chorus:
[00:02.10]We can get down,We can,we can get down(4X)
[00:21.17]Ah, it's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
[00:25.10]It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
[00:27.37]It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
[00:29.57]It's like that man, it's like that
[00:32.25]Phife:I'm not your average MC with the Joe Schmoe flow
[00:35.44]If you don't know me by now, you'll never know
[00:37.69]Steppin on my critics, beatin on my foes
[00:40.29]The plan is to stay focused, only then I can go
[00:42.84]Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
[00:45.39]I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
[00:47.85]Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
[00:50.46]Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closin the shop
[00:52.84]Crushin competition like your tires on grapes
[00:55.55]My rhymes styles be blendin like a Ron G tape
[00:57.99]My man where ya goin? You can't escape
[01:00.74]When the Tribe is in the house, that means nobody is safe
[01:03.19]How can a reverend preach, when a rev can't define
[01:05.63]The music of our youth from 1979
[01:08.18]We rap about what we see, meaning reality
[01:10.77]From people bustin caps and like Mandela bein free
[01:13.38]Not every MC be with the negativity
[01:15.88]We have a slew of rappers pushin positivity
[01:18.62]Hip hop will never die yo, it's all about the rap
[01:21.23]So Marion Barry smokin crack, let's preach about that
[01:23.86]The trash you talk won't matter, that old bogus chatter
[01:26.25]The more that you condemn us, it only makes us phatter
[01:28.75]When I talk, I know I'm talkin for you poppers all around
[01:31.35]You know you love the sound, we gets down
[01:33.91]We can get down,We can,we can get down(4X)
[01:43.93]Ah, it's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
[01:46.28]It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
[01:48.82]It's like that man, it's like that (yes!)
[01:51.33]It's like that man, it's like tha
[01:53.90]Q-Tip:I'm the cherry on the top of yo ice cream
[01:56.71]I'm the wish you thought inside your dream
[01:59.47]Listen to the way we pulsate the jam
[02:02.01]I'm the nigga here with the mic in hand
[02:04.42]Styles that we present are just a few
[02:07.12]To do away with you and your hum drum crew
[02:09.60]This is '93 and the shit is real
[02:12.11]Black people unite and put down your steel
[02:14.61]Ladies make a forum on your sexual drive
[02:17.36]Devoted to your lover and make it thrive
[02:19.91]The riff was of F, I'm a hip hop body
[02:22.34]Release the energy like the force of a shotty
[02:24.89]Standin on the wall with my Polo on
[02:27.55]Talkin to the girl with the Liz Claiborne
[02:30.06]Keep the poetry in my black knapsack
[02:32.61]Got my Timbo horse and my Doublemint pack
[02:35.01]Hit the city streets to enhance my soul
[02:37.74]I can kick a rhyme over ill drum rolls
[02:40.40]With a kick, snare, kicks and high hat
[02:42.95]Skilled in the trade of that old boom bap
[02:45.56]I can do a trick with the opposite breed
[02:48.25]I used to down 40s and smoke grain weed
[02:50.60]Now, I'm doin shows with half loot down
[02:53.04]Now it's time for me to take ya uptown
[02:55.43]It's like that man, it's like that (yes!) (7X)
[03:14.35]It's like this..
[03:17.08]Rakim: "Why waste time on the microphone"