It's Like That Lyrics - De La Soul

It's like, New York without a New York yanks 

Better yet, New York without the New York franks 

It's like hot summers without no AC 

Or never hitting numbers when you go to AC 

It's like six years of your life, go ask Rob 

I'm like, Yo how is it?, he like, It's like hard 

Trying for that queen but you nothing but a man 

You wanna keep it clean but you can't 

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 

I'm 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 didn't 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 wouldn't even substitute, ill 

For words we use defining our likes 

I'm coal mining these mics 

To keep that gold nugget like Dave Megget 

Giant like a motherfucker, like Dave said it 

But ya ain't 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 

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Just running, running, fast as I can 

I'm trying to be a person but I gotta be the man 

If I, can't stand the life that I'm in 

I gotta keep running 'cause I'm still gon' win 

Yes I got to go on, it's like that, it's like that 

Yes I got to go on, it's like that, it's like that 

It's like, Slick Rick without the eye patch 

More like, saying slick shit you won't catch 

It's like bed time without your PJ's 

Or no fed timing in out the PJ's 

It's 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 won't get it solved 

You working but you won't get the job 

It's like, who would of thought, thought 

It you would of bought, bought 

Into my religion you'd 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 don't see it for one to go pop 

And this is how you treat Hip hop? 

Imagine if you didn't have that phantom chrome sitting on a curb nigga 

The word nigga wouldn't 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 y'all stopping to hate 

But why it gotta be like that? 

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That, dadadat, dadat, dat, dat, dadat, dat, dadadat, dat, dat 

Dadadat, dadat, dadadat, dat, dat, dat, dat, dat, dadat, dadat, dat 

Just running, running, fast as I can 

I'm trying to be a person but I gotta be the man 

If I, can't stand the life that I'm in 

I gotta keep running 'cause I'm still gon' win 

Yes I got to go on, it's like that, it's like that 

Yes I got to go on, it's like that, it's like that 

Just running, running, fast as I can 

I'm trying to be a person but I gotta be the man 

If I, can't stand the life that I'm in 

I gotta keep running 'cause I'm still gon' win 

Yes I got to go on, it's like that, it's like that 

Yes I got to go on, it's like that, it's like that