It's Like That

[Dave] Its like,
New York without a
New York yanks
Better yet,
New York without the
New York franks
Its like hot summers without no
A.C Or never hitting numbers when you go to
A.C Its like six years of your life, go ask
Rob Im like 'Yo how is it?' he like 'Its like hard'
Trying for that queen but you nothing but a man
You wanna keep it clean but you cant
Why it gotta be, like, that
And what the life, see life is like a
J shot Shooters son, they got
One point one second, you half court
Im feeling the adrenaline like you half court
Like pink slips and dipping these ink tips to paper
Imagine if we fuck around and lose
Hip -hop Imagine if it didnt exist
Imagine nothing shining your wrist
See, imagining to you is a risk
But think about it, like no chrome rims
And tims would be construction boots (ill)
We probably wouldnt even substitute (ill)
For words we use defining our likes
Im coal mining these mics
To keep that gold nugget like
Dave Megget
Giant like a motherfucker , like
Dave said it
But ya aint listening, ya paper gon stack
Why it gotta be like that?
That, dadadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dadat, dat
Dat, dadadat, dadat, dat, dadadat, dadadat, dat, dat, dadat, dadat [Chorus: Carl Thomas]
Just running, running, fast as
I can Im trying to be a person but
I gotta be the man
If I, cant stand the life that
Im in I gotta keep running 'cause
Im still gon win
Yes I got to go on (its like that, its like that)
Yes I got to go on (its like that, its like that) [Posdonus]
Its like,
Slick Rick without the eye patch
More like, saying slick shit you wont catch
Its like bed time without your
PJs Or no fed timing in out the
PJs Its like, one minute you got it, then you broke
Like what
I do with it?
I copped a few with it
Looking like a problem, but you wont get it solved
You working but you wont get the job
Its like, who would of thought (thought)
It you would of bought (bought)
Into my religion youd be more like
God But you were steady swimming so you more like cod
See these fools is fish scale, converting to ish male
See I see it like,
A alike, B alike
I was taught, if you play alike, be alike
How they dont see it for one to go pop
And this is how you treat
Hip-hop? Imagine if you didnt have that phantom chrome sitting on a curb nigga
The word nigga wouldnt be a bit disturbing nigga
See them roots are like begging for the rain
You entering my kingdom just a begging for the reign
Putting shit stain to paper
Ink pain feeling like fifty-five licks on a slave niggaz back
And not a one of yall stopping to hate
But why it gotta be like that?
That, dadadat, dadat, dat, dat, dadat, dat, dadadat, dat, dat
Dadadat, dadat, dadadat, dat, dat, dat, dat, dat, dadat, dadat, dat [Chorus] x2