[04:34.00]That's How We Do It - US3
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[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]Critics and cynics complain that it's a fallacy
[04:34.00]Claiming rap music has a lack of musicality
[04:34.00]But in reality none of the critics can rap
[04:34.00]So they don't know the facts but they're always on the attack see
[04:34.00]Rhythm and poetry that's what a rap is
[04:34.00]It takes musicality, focus and practice
[04:34.00]The rhythm is rapid like the notes of a jazz lick
[04:34.00]Or if it's a triplet it slows down like traffic
[04:34.00]You might point out that it lacks a melody
[04:34.00]But rap can be melodic like Ella or Della Reese
[04:34.00]I don't care about your musical pedigrees
[04:34.00]'Cos I'm the half breed of a jazz funk legacy
[04:34.00]You better be on point when you diss it
[04:34.00]'Cos we know the critics of rap are all bigots
[04:34.00]So dig it, this is how I kick it and it's beautiful
[04:34.00]Don't ever try to tell me that my rap isn't musical
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music
[04:34.00]The same critics talking trash and dissing rap
[04:34.00]Listen to jazz, rhythm and blues and classical gas
[04:34.00]Maybe they never studied the past or just don't mind
[04:34.00]That jazz wasn't considered a music at one time
[04:34.00]They don't want to admit that it might last
[04:34.00]A very long time like jazz and it's no fad
[04:34.00]Rap tracks continue to pack kiddies knapsacks
[04:34.00]So listen to the sax sayin' somethin' and that's that
[04:34.00]Now I can rap alone spontaneous like a saxophone solo
[04:34.00]Without a chaperon or a stack of poems
[04:34.00]I'm deep like a baritone singing in catacombs
[04:34.00]Back in the days I used to freestyle for accolades
[04:34.00]What other musical genre besides rap
[04:34.00]Crafts lyric gems just as rhythmic as hi-hats
[04:34.00]What other music improvises up wisecracks
[04:34.00]To make the crowd happily clap and why is that?
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music
[04:34.00]See I grew up in Philly listening to the Roots
[04:34.00]And Black Thought taught me the rules of this rap sport
[04:34.00]And now I'm hip-hoppin' on planes taking it worldwide
[04:34.00]To make the fellas clap and the beautiful girls sigh
[04:34.00]And every now and then critics emerge
[04:34.00]Telling me rap's not a music and I think it's absurd
[04:34.00]'Cos I transcribe the rhythms and I know that I'm right
[04:34.00]And I show and prove my theory when I'm holding the mic
[04:34.00]I know you might not respect what I do
[04:34.00]But at least hear me out when I'm stepping to you
[04:34.00]'Cos I'm not your average cat waving a gat
[04:34.00]When I rap I freestyle while I'm taking a nap
[04:34.00]Making them clap to the music as I travel the globe
[04:34.00]A representative with my pen
[04:34.00]I give a sensitive consideration to my sentences that's the concept
[04:34.00]Take it to the hook let me put it in context
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music
[04:34.00]That's how it is, that's how we do it
[04:34.00]That's why I love this hip hop music