Key: C# minor
Intro 1
G#m
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G#m
B
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G#m
A#m
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B
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Verse 1
A#m
Yo,
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F#
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explode, my thoughts were drunken from quarts of beers
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A#m
A
before Nas ir would explore a career in rap
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G#m
I mastered this Rubik's Cube
B
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B
F#
Godzilla, fought Gargantua,
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A
eyes glued to the tube
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B
John Boy Ice
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A#m
A
Geronimo po- lice jumpin out
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B
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punch in his chest like a gorilla
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A
Outside was psychoes, killers
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G#m
Saw Divine, Goon and Chungo,
A#m
Lil' Turkey
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G#m
Big Percy, Crazy Paul, the Sledge Sisters
A#m
A
My building was 40- 16, once in the blue,
I knew, all that I'd seen had
meant somethin
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G#m
F#
A#m
A
to fear none little Nas was huntin
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G#m
Livin carefree laughin, got jokes on the daily
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B
Y'all actin like some old folks
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A#m
y'all don't hear me
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B
Yo I'm in my second childhood
G#m
"Cause when I flow the for the street."
Verse 2
G#m
A
G#m
"N- A- S" - "Nas."
B
G#m
"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed."
A
G#m
"Make everything right." - "Get yours,
G#m
"Cause when I flow the for the street."
Verse 3
G#m
A
G#m
"N- A- S" - "Nas."
B
G#m
"Resurrect, through the birth of my
A
G#m
"Make everything right." - "Get yours,
nigga"
Verse 4
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G#m
B
Yo, dude is 31, livin in his moms crib
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A#m
Ex- convict, was paroled there after
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his long bid
Cornrows in his hair,
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G#m
B
still slingin, got a crew
G#m
A#m
They break his moms furniture,
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watchin Comicview
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A#m
In the same spot he stood since,
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eighty- five well
When his stash slow, he be crazy
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B
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B
Say he by his mom s,
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A#m
hit her on her payday
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Junior high school dropout, teach
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G#m
B
ers never cared
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A#m
They was paid just to show up and leave,
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B
different blocks, different years
Sittin on, different benches
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A
like it's musical chairs
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B
he's on the corners at night
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F#
With young dudes it's them
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It's sad but it's fun to him
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B
right? He never grew up
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A#m
31 and can't give his youth up,
A
B
he's in his second childhood
G#m
"Cause when I flow the for the street."
Verse 5
G#m
A
G#m
"N- A- S" - "Nas."
B
G#m
"Resurrect, through the birth of my
A
G#m
"Make everything right." - "Get yours,
G#m
"Cause when I flow the for the street."
Verse 6
G#m
A
G#m
"N- A- S" - "Nas."
B
G#m
"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed."
A
G#m
"Make everything right."
- "Get yours, nigga"
Verse 7
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G#m
B
name droppin hangin late
A#m
A
craves shoppin
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G#m
F#
B
won't finish her education
G#m
F#
Best friend she keeps changin,
A#m
A
stuck with limitations
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F#
Lustin men, many hotels,
G#m
B
Fendi Chanel
With nothin in her bank ac
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A#m
count frontin she do well
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Her kid suffers he don't
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A#m
single mom, even worse
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B
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No job never stay workin, mad purty
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A
Shorty they call her the brain surgeon
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never matures
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She's in the streets
yakkety yakkin like she was 12
Honey is twenty- seven,
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G#m
B
ar gues fights
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A#m
Selfish in her own right for life,
A
B
guess she's in her second childhood
G#m
"Cause when I flow the for the street."
Verse 8
G#m
A
G#m
"N- A- S" - "Nas."
B
G#m
"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed."
A
G#m
"Make everything right." - "Get yours,
G#m
"Cause when I flow the for the street."
Verse 9
G#m
A
G#m
"N- A- S" - "Nas."
B
G#m
"Resurrect, through the birth of my seed."
A
A
G#m
"Make everything right." - "Get yours,
B
G#m
A#m
nigga"
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