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Play Dat! Lyrics by DJ Jazzy Jeff

2014

[Intro: Dayne Jordan]
Yeah
Dayne, Jordan
[Verse 1: Dayne Jordan]
They got it backwards, these rappers
Got you confused by that wackness
They be kicking, my flows keep flipping I'm acrobatic
It came from the mattresses
Our neighbours used to put out in trash
We took and imagined it was a part of a gym
Now I'm conditioned to think, like I ain't got a pot to piss in
Do my push-ups drink water and learn to listen
Mic school pimping
But I see a lot of people are lost, they feel tripping
When they hear good music they don't know it
So I owe it to myself as a poet
To make sure my music is potent
I see a lot of people dancing to records that they don't even feel
They turn up, but they don't know where the soul is
I don't wanna hear it's that old shit
This that young boy, sit yo' ass down, you don't know shit
This how it used to sound in Philly at a block party
Let it knock 'til they call the cops on us
[Hook: Dayne Jordan]
This ain't old music
Listen here this is dope music
You don't even know how to feel this old music
You ain't a DJ homie you don't know music
We ain't taking no requests we control music
So play dat! (play dat!)
You just play dat! (play dat!)
You just play dat! (play dat!)
We ain't taking no requests
We don't play dat (play dat!)
We don't play dat (play dat!)
We don't play dat (play dat!)
We ain't taking no requests
[Verse 2: Dayne Jordan]
Ahhh
Youngun' brought the feeling back
I ain't really into that
Tryna' make a record everybody like
Just to get on radio, I'm buzzing on the internet
Internationally in places I ain't been to yet
Niggas say I'm conscious, this is far from the [??] rap
This is what my grandad
Used to rock to, in his cadillac
With his gat strapped
And a pocket full of paper numbers written on a pad
Working for the mafia
The only black thing in sight, with the whites, like a hockey buff
Grandmama, and mummy, and uncle, and auntie
Grew up on this type of music, so it's already inside of me
I got it honestly, but honestly
It wasn't playing in the crib I was living in
It wasn't until I got with Jeff and started digging where I discovered the classics
I'm trying to leave the same mark that there
[Hook]
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DJ Jazzy Jeff

DJ Jazzy Jeff

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