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The Roots
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Key: C major
Verse 1
C5
C5

G5
G5

Bb5
Bb5

C5
C5

I'm
Bb5
Bb5

G5
G5

F
F

Bb5
Bb5

C
C

C5
C5

Bb5
Bb5

A5
A5

F
F

C5
C5

A5
A5

G5
G5

C
C

C5
C5

G5
G5

A5
A5

G5
G5

C5
C5

G5
G5

Db
Db

from the land of them straight razor face beard niggas
C5
C5

With hammers on their waist,
B
B

yeah, waste rare niggas
Bb
Bb

And I race scared niggas,
C5
C5

them snake head niggas
A5
A5

That take care of niggas who don't
Bb
Bb

break bread with us
G5
G5

A5
A5

Niggas make dead niggas
G5
G5

and hate black niggas
F
F

Brown niggas high yellow
niggas and them red niggas
F#
F#

No telling when the bullet coming,
F#5
F#5

G5
G5

be prepared niggas
F#5
F#5

Cause when it do it coming land,
G5
G5

sea and air niggas
That's everywhere niggas,
Db
Db

Am I the motherfucking legendary?
C5
C5

B
B

Yeah niggas, make it very clear niggas
Bb
Bb

C5
C5

Been looking at y'all in my rearview
A5
A5

Mirror niggas want to be a millionaire,
Bb
Bb

I'm already there niggas
G5
G5

I'm the definiere nigga,
a bear taking more than my share
Lookee here, yeah,
I know it ain't fair nigga
Neither is a bar even with a
hair trigger
F
F

G
G

G5
G5

Haystack, try and find a needle
up in there nigga
Leave you up in there nigga,
Db
Db

show me the puppet
C
C

That don't need a puppeteer nigga,
B
B

shed another tear nigga
Bb5
Bb5

Bb
Bb

A5
A5

I'm in the field with a shield
and a spear nigga
Bb
Bb

I'm in your girl with her
heels in the air nigga
G5
G5

F
F

I am such a fair nigga,
you in a battle telling
Me you not ready like you figured
I'ma bear with you
I don't care nigga,
F#
F#

you now listening to the sounds
Of the money making jam
G5
G5

trillionaires nigga
Db
Db

Gentlemen of an extraordinary league
C5
C5

C
C

You never see me blowing on
B
B

no ordinary weed
Bb
Bb

What I'm smoking ain't a product
C
C

of no ordinary seed
A5
A5

C
C

Your boy is heavy treed, I'm feeling merry
A5
A5

G5
G5

As a Tyler Perry scene,
G
G

F
F

that monetary gang green
We tried to launder the cash
and never came clean
So now I'm in the story with
A5
A5

all the cats before me
F
F

And smoke purgatory for doing
G5
G5

the same thing
And them niggas ain't change,
Db
Db

them niggas can't change
C5
C5

C
C

Their moms shake their heads
A5
A5

saying it's such a dang shame
Bb
Bb

The train to the buck,
C
C

did another dang plan
A5
A5

My stage and my government
C
C

A5
A5

ain't the same name
G5
G5

I'm a rock star,
F
F

love it that my wallet chain hang
A5
A5

I'm a modern day saint,
F
F

I'm a modern day kane
My definition I can finally explain
F#
F#

Cold smooth like that dude Sean
A5
A5

G5
G5

Connery was playing
I just got to be the man,
Db
Db

I'm the father figure and
C5
C5

When I spit it's something
C
C

B
B

like a psychology exam
Bb
Bb

If you stand where I stood,
C
C

you could probably understand
A5
A5

How that mic feeling like
Bb
Bb

a million dollars in my hand
G5
G5

It's the si lence of the lamb,
go and cop another gram
F#
F#

F
F

G5
G5

And twist with your zanny, work your set,
A5
A5

work it down
F
F

G5
G5

What's your net working plan?
F
F

You better look alive
F#
F#

G5
G5

Cuz them niggas outside looking
desperate again nigga
And the blunts and liquor
Db
Db

killing our lungs and liver
C
C

B
B

The asthmatic drug addict I function with it
Bb
Bb

C
C

I put a rapper in a hole
where the dust will sit
A5
A5

Bb
Bb

For spitting played out patterns
that once was hitting
Gm
Gm

G5
G5

I got news for you all,
let me show you how to ball
F#
F#

F
F

See the le gendary fall? I
G
G

ain't heard of that
G5
G5

F#
F#

Y'all niggas is off the
G5
G5

wall like Aresnio Hall
Gb
Gb

I'ma put you right back
where the dirt is at
Db
Db

C
C

450 Fahrenheit on the thermostat
Somebody starving like a
B
B

white girl runnin' that
Bb
Bb

But she not a earner yet,
C
C

she couldn't put in no work,
A5
A5

Bb
Bb

Not earning that,
Gm
Gm

the black microphone murder vet
G5
G5

F
F

I'm in a class of my own,
Gb
Gb

F
F

If I got beef with you, you the
last one to know
I arrive on time, I'm never fashionable
A5
A5

You late, I'm already international- able
G5
G5

Db
Db

I done toured to Berlin, banged in Beijing
C
C

You never seen nothing can't
B
B

say the same thing
Bb
Bb

Tell somebody Black Thought,
C
C

yeah you know the name ring
A5
A5

So give him the game ring for bringing
Bb
Bb

G5
G5

what them niggas can't bring
F
F

My hustle is long, my muscle is strong
My man put the paper in the
duffel I'm gone
Y'all still a light year from
F
F

the level I'm on
Just a pawn stepping right
G5
G5

into the head of the storm
You been warned,
C
C

I will blow y'all niggas and disintegrate
Bb
Bb

A5
A5

I'm a rebel, renegade must stay paid

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