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Because I Got It Like That

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Jungle Brothers "Because I Got It Like That" (album version) 1988

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Jungle Brothers

Jungle Brothers

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J.B.'s For R.A.P.

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Lyrics

Because I got it like that

Because I got it like that

Because I got it like that, yeah

(Like how?) Like that

Dancing on the dance floor

Girl, it's you that I adore

Step on stage, you scream for more

Afrika got rhymes galore

Snap my fingers, make you mine

If not, I'll snap a second time

After that, I guarantee

You will be standing next to me

Left or right side, take your pick

But, girl, you've got to make it quick

Baby, baby, baby

I know I drive you crazy

MCs know me as Mike G

Girls hold on to me tightly

Warm personality

That's why they get close to me

Try their best to drive me wild

Say they want to bear my child

I go away, they say, "Come back"

(Why?) Why? Because I got it like that

Yeah, uh-huh, because I got it like that

Yeah, uh-huh, because I got it like that

(Uh-huh) 'Cause I got it like that

(Like how?) Like that

No problem, because I got it like that

A Baby Bam beat and an Afrikan rap

My partner by my side, Sammy B is on the cut

Your DJs chill and chill, but hey, so what?

Nuggets in my pocket, vine in my hand

I got it like that but you still don't understand

It comes to me natural, it comes to me easy

I just lay back and let the big beat lead me

I never worked a day in my life

Single Jungle Brother, no kids, no wife

A hundred thousand rhymes from one man, that's many

But back where I come from, they ain't worth a penny

You've got a lotta talent but you fail to see

You paid for yours, I got mine for free

Play in the rain and don't get wet

Walk through the desert and don't even sweat

Play in the snow and don't get cold

I'm just a cool young brother who looks kinda old

Run around the world schooling the sound

If I commit a crime and get caught, I slide

I've got ladies uptown and money on the floor

There's not a thing in the world that I'm asking for

Wanna know why brothers?

It's cause I got it like that

I ain't joking, I ain't playing

It's 'cause, my brother, I got it like that

Used to be a player, couldn't be trusted

But still in all, I never got busted

Knowing every part of New York City

I thought it was fun, it used to look pretty

I had 'em all spread out, even one next door

I had 'em like that, so what ya asking for?

Four to five, you see, was my minimum

And every day I used to go and get with 'em

One for every hour, on the hour

One on the way while I was in the shower

It sounds kinda crazy, it sounds kinda bugged

But you see, Afrika was the one they loved

So you see, they got to a point where they didn't care

They didn't wanna give me up so they agreed to share

Because I got it like that

I hear you, brother

Because I got it like that

Man, you's one bad Jungle Brother

Like that

Like that

Uh, woo, Sammy B, B, you got it like that?

I know you got it like that

Yo, Mike, we the Jungle Brothers, right?

And we ain't the only ones that got it like that

New York City got it like that

Los Angeles got it like that

Cleveland got it like that

Let me see, who else got it like that? (Detroit?)

Who? (Detroit?) Man, yeah, Atlanta got it like that

Philadelphia got it like that

Texas got it like that

Let me see, somebody else got it like that (D.C.)

Yeah, D.C., D.C., got it like that

Boston, Miami, I know you got it like that, Miami

Word up, yo, I'm outta here, you know why?

Because I got it like that

Written by: J.B.'s For R.A.P.

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