Harder Than You Think Lyrics

[Hook]
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat


[Interlude: Flavor Flav]
Yeah, that's right Chuck, man
That's what you gotta do
You got to tell 'em "Just like dat," ya know what I'm sayin?
Cause yo, lemme tell you a lil something man
These brothers runnin around, hard-headed!
They get a lil jealous, you know what I'm sayin?
Just like that! You know, they try to bring you down wit 'em
But yo, Chuck, you got to tell 'em, "Just like dat!"

[Verse 2: Chuck D]
Screamin gangsta twenty years later
Of course endorsed while consciousness faded

New generation believin them fables
"Gangster Boogie" on two turntables
Show no love so it's easy to hate it
Desecrated while the coroner waited
Any given Sunday, so where y'all rate it?
Wit slavery, lynchin, and them drugs infiltrated
I'm like that doll Chucky, baby
Keep comin back to live, love life like I'm crazy
Keep it movin Rising to the Top
Doug Fresh clean livin you don't stop

Revolution means change, don't look at me strange
So I can't repeat what other rappers be sayin

You don't stand for something, you fall for anything
Harder than you think, it's a beautiful thing
[Hook]
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat


[Interlude 2: Flavor Flav]
Yeah, that's right Chuck, man
That's what you gotta do
You got to tell 'em, "Just like dat," ya know what I'm sayin?
Cause yo, lemme tell you a lil something man
These brothers runnin around, hard-headed!
They get a lil jealous, you know what I'm sayin?
Just like that! You know, they try to bring you down wit 'em
But yo, Chuck, you got to tell 'em, "Just like dat!"

[Verse 3: Chuck D]
So it's time to leave you a preview
So you too can review what we do

Twenty years in this business, How You Sell Soul?
G-Wiz, people bear witness
Thank you for lettin us be ourselves
So don't mind me if I repeat myself

These simple lines be good for your health
To keep them crime rhymes on the shelf
Live love life like you just don't care
Five thousand leaders never scared
"Bring the Noise," it's 'the moment they feared'
Get up! Still a beautiful idea
[Hook]
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat
Hard (Get up!)
Just like dat


[Hook 2: Chuck D]
(Get up!)
Throw yo hands in the air
Get up and show no fear!
Get up if y'all really care!
P.E. 20 years, now get up!!

[Outro: Flavor Flav]
Yeah, that's right, we Public Enemy #1 in New York
Public Enemy #1 in Philly, Public Enemy #1 in D.C
Public Enemy #1 in Cleveland, Ohio (we're harder than you think)
Also we're Public Enemy #1 in St. Louis
(It's a beautiful thing) Public Enemy #1 in New Jersey
And bust it, we also Public Enemy #1 in Cincinnati, (we're harder than you think)

And Atlanta, even Public Enemy #1 in Chicago, Public Enemy #1 in Detroit
(It's a beautiful thing) Public Enemy #1 in Oakland
(We're harder than you think) Public Enemy #1 in Baltimore
Public Enemy #1 in Miami, Public Enemy #1 in Indiana
Also Public Enemy #1 in L.A. (it's a beautiful thing... indeed)
Also Public Enemy #1 in Alabama, y'all (we're harder, than you think!)
Public Enemy #1 in Tennesee, Public Enemy #1 in Mississippi
The Carolinas

[Hook]
Just like dat
Just like dat
Just like dat

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About

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The first single from Public Enemy’s 10th album, How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?, which celebrated the 20th anniversary of their debut. The song is about Public Enemy knowing that helping humanity is harder then being a hardcore person because you need to be able to convince them that they are wrong.

The track samples Shirley Bassey’s Jezehel and their own track Public Enemy No. 1.

It experienced a recent resurgence in popularity in the UK as the theme tune to Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympics.

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Release Date
August 13, 2007
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