"Cool Cat" lyrics
(feat. Akil Dasan)
You wanna be a cool cat?
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
Cool cats cruise in a seventies flick
Old school energy like '76
With the wide brim hats and the Afro pick
They act so slick laying down a rap so sick
They got the fly girls open like a sunroof top
Diamond in the back when they come through spots
Posted up in the background nonchalant
With a bag full of tricks any kind you want
We got Jimmy Smith cooking with Kenny Burrell
It's hard to tell what's going down in Harlem hell
The cool cats hold the block down faster than cops, and then they dip snap crackle and bop
You wanna be a cool cat?
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
If you can keep your cool when others lose it
If you can trust yourself; but love improvement
If you can wait with love instead of hate
With truth instead of fakeness
You getting the basics
If you can dream but celebrate reality
If winning and losing seem like a fallacy
If you can go it alone without cavalry
To fight the battles within; and do it casually
Just swag extends beyond galaxies
Cooler than a fan, attractive like gravity
Cool cats go with the flow and after they stop
The crowd keeps going snap crackle and bop
You wanna be a cool cat?
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
Decked in the finer things;
Swag shining like diamond rings
Mr. Cane on the stoop, never mind the wings
Each one of us comes from a line of kings
So listen
Ready to set it every time I sling
Raps that rock hard redefining trends
Cooler than a penguin in a violent wind
With a iced out beak sliding by with friends
Ha!
The way that we walk, the way that we talk
That too cool for school ain't making a mark
So keep calm, carry on, cats packing the spot
We laughing a lot, chill, snap, crackle and bop
You wanna be a cool cat?
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
Cool cats cruise in a seventies flick
Old school energy like '76
With the wide brim hats and the Afro pick
They act so slick laying down a rap so sick
They got the fly girls open like a sunroof top
Diamond in the back when they come through spots
Posted up in the background nonchalant
With a bag full of tricks any kind you want
We got Jimmy Smith cooking with Kenny Burrell
It's hard to tell what's going down in Harlem hell
The cool cats hold the block down faster than cops, and then they dip snap crackle and bop
You wanna be a cool cat?
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
If you can keep your cool when others lose it
If you can trust yourself; but love improvement
If you can wait with love instead of hate
With truth instead of fakeness
You getting the basics
If you can dream but celebrate reality
If winning and losing seem like a fallacy
If you can go it alone without cavalry
To fight the battles within; and do it casually
Just swag extends beyond galaxies
Cooler than a fan, attractive like gravity
Cool cats go with the flow and after they stop
The crowd keeps going snap crackle and bop
You wanna be a cool cat?
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
Decked in the finer things;
Swag shining like diamond rings
Mr. Cane on the stoop, never mind the wings
Each one of us comes from a line of kings
So listen
Ready to set it every time I sling
Raps that rock hard redefining trends
Cooler than a penguin in a violent wind
With a iced out beak sliding by with friends
Ha!
The way that we walk, the way that we talk
That too cool for school ain't making a mark
So keep calm, carry on, cats packing the spot
We laughing a lot, chill, snap, crackle and bop
You wanna be a cool cat?
Yeah I wanna be a cool cat
So you wanna be a cool cat?
But you ain't all that
