DJ Jazzy Jeff, Dayne Jordan - Play Dat! lyrics

Yeah 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

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

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