How That Sound

Lyrics by Mattic & Beat by Chomsky

So now you to the point that you done seen some shit and you can't get it out of your mind you get sick.
Folk tales to pick or street stories, cause rhyming bout yourself eventually turns boring.
I remember the night like it was morning
Kat out of line, the vision rewinds
He was trying to be about it like most rappers today, but around 3:30 the ground he laid.

And his eye's seen the black of the night like gun fights
Now ah days, that's how they play
Trying to impress a woman that ain't part of my world
Grab the wrong one straight by arm, gave her a twirl

She gave a shook look and then a right hook.
Drink crashed the floor, he like this whore.
Got the nerve to touch my face without giving a taste
now in the corner, I heard another glass bottle break.

Glass started to spread like people in the crowd
It was quite for a second, but dude was getting fowl.
Guess it had to be her boyfriend hiding his hands and step to him.
Some people in the background said to him.

They talk for a few, and before I knew
the brother from the corner pulled hands out and smacked dude.
He pause for a minute and said this kat is finish
Snatched out the gun, while homeboy run'ed.

I was like Dam
Son lets break out and shake out.
Running back patterns as bullets they start unraveling
outside one through the chest just like a javelin.
Thick blood in the soil like Havoline oil.

The kid laid in soil, half paralyzed
Fronting in clubs unorganized
Get euthanized like canines in Dog pounds.
20 years old and bowed up in the ground.

(chorus)
Now how that sound
When you get knocked Down
How that sound
When they let go rounds
From your country all the way to uptown
You might get found, man How that Sound ?

I runaway yeah runaway
coz I don't like de game you play
I runaway tryin' to find another way
I runaway yeah runaway
you made of iron and I made of clay
I runaway Jackie go your own way!

I don't know what to say when I see Jackie play, I don't know what to say
Oh Jackie you're no good, yes I'd go if I could I'd kill you if I could!

I runaway yeah runaway Jackie it's more dan I can pay
I runaway you broke my heart dat day!
I runaway yeah runaway there'll be no more us nor we
I runaway Jackie why you did dat to me?

I runaway yeah runaway
now you're just a memory
I runaway but di virus 's still in me!

I don't know what to say when I see Jackie play, I don't know what to say
I fell fe all your tricks just like a ton of bricks I fell fe all your tricks!!

So one more day, another night
One more year without you
God I'm so blue, honey I miss you
So one more day, another night
One more year without you
God I'm so blue, don't know how old are you...

I mus' say if I had de money
I could show you a better day
but tings dem not so easy today
ain't no fun inna di city
from bad to worse everyday
God I polish shoes, man I beg fi money
tings dem so hard pon me!


ten years I livin' on de streets
still don't know how to make ends meet
tell me what do you learn at school
do your new daddy tink I'm a fool?
I'm dyin' to hear from you
I still polish shoes and still beg fi money
tings dem so hard pon me!

I and di mafia
we're bak in Africa
fi meet di Emperor
of sounds in Ethiopia
back to awi roots now
we set up a new era
dragons on mi finga
sing "united Africa"!

Go tell di black messiah
I and di mafia
we learn di whole chapter
Kebranagast
in Addis Ababa
we found out di scorcha
remember Lumumba
di mystical warrior

I and di mafia
we riddim conqueror
we fightin' for freedom
yes we shall overcome
stop di war and gun ting
listen Africa sings
di old time melody
African unity!