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Verse 1
Am
G

Africa Port- Au- Prince
C
G

Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn

- where you coming from?
Am
Em
G

Africa Port- Au- Prince
C
G

Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn

- where you coming from?
Em
G

Africa Port- Au- Prince
Em

Knoxville An van
D

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
G

- where you coming from?
Em
G

Africa Port- Au- Prince

Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brook
Em
G

lyn - where you coming from?
D

Africa Port- Au- Prince Knoxville Anvan
G
Em

Manhattan South Bend Al bany

Brooklyn - where you coming from?
G

Africa Port- Au- Prince

Knoxville Anvan

Manhattan South Bend Albany Brooklyn
D

- where you coming from?
Verse 2
D

[Fading in] Brooklyn, New

York to wherever you at
G

This is autobiographical taking you back
Em
G

I live a charmed life

We going back in the years
Em
G
D

Imagining if my whole world what
G
D

Where you coming from
Em
G

Brooklyn, New York to wherever you at
Em
G

This is autobio graphical taking you back
Em

I live a charmed life
G

We going back in the years
D

Imagine if my whole world
Verse 3
G

I been around the sun twenty- five times

And I still find new ways

to recognize shine

It's like light gets better with age

The way a song sounds

better on stage
Verse 4
G

And rhyme books get better

with each page
C
G

What before the first bar was written

A first verse was spittin
Em

Before label execs
G
Em

was bullshittin
G
Way back when Aunty
Verse 5

Leann Aunt Mimi
C

and Aunt Jackie was babysitting
G

Before food was bitten,
C

consumed through a nipple
G

I'm talking about when times were simple
Verse 6

To make a long story short it goes
Am
Em
C

Port- au- Prince Knoxville Anvan love
G
Em
D

and the city that never sleeps
C
Am

From thought to finish I was born
Em
G

just a couple of weeks late
Em
G

Stayed home longer just to make

sure everything was on straight
C
Am
Em
G
C

All systems go cut the umbilical cord
G
From old
Verse 7
Em

earth to new
D
C

earth Manhattan to turf
Am
Em

For what its worth my mum
G
C
G

held me down one deep
Em
G

Pops was absentee but

minds you don't sleep

It took her feelings to raise me

lean taught me how to read
Verse 8
G
D

By the time I went to school

I was in high speed
G

Ready willing and able jackie

taught me how to add with

Dried up black eyed peas

on the kitchen table

And coming home to a mothers

love and good care
Em
Never wanted it was
Verse 9
G
Am

always enough
G

But when it came to education its

like she had one rule
D

There's no such thing
Am

as too much school
G
C

Not to mention lean taught me how

to play the piano and then
G
Every summer I was
Verse 10

out
Em
G

in south ben
Em
G

Grandpops a bartender at a country club
Em

Me and my cousins from grand
D
G

rapid was living it up
Em
G

Me and granny watching

??? football golden blue
Verse 11
G

She said you can't beat the

team and them be

's too
Em
G

Some say I got my sense

of humour from her
D

And I learned patience from making
G

models in the basement

Brookyn, new york to wherever you at
Verse 12
G

This is autobiographical taking you back

With no time for refrains I barely

got enough time to explain

How hip hop captivated my brain
C

My mama raised me on soul
G

and beethoven
Verse 13
G

Sports clubs from private school
C

put me up on soft rock
Em
G

That was cool but I left Z100 and WGLJ
C
G

To find bliss with real s and kiss
C

Video music rocks showed
G

my what time it is
Verse 14
G

Wrote my first rhymes as corey

but j- live was sparked
Am
G

Making pause mix demos with

my main man mark

Playing ball in the park,

there was other heads too

I was the herb of the crew,

then I learned what to do
Verse 15
G

Got my way from school
D
G

started battling fools
Em
G

G nice my friendly rival at the lunch table

He started spark at a dark

with damian and I date
C
G

I was down for a bit but that
C
G

was just a DJ
Verse 16
G

Starting spinning in the PJs with
C

satcho and them
Am
Em
G

Back and forth from the tables

to the pad and the pen
Em
G

Then I had to do a bit upstate but wait

I wasn't incarcerated but college educated
Verse 17
Em
G
D

As soon the Albany I was a full time
G
Em
G

student part time emcee

At the time raw shack was
Em
G

the place to be

Living on judge Clark

Started building with gods
Verse 18
G

16 man squad By the time know
Em
G

ledge was
D

120 we was just 5 deep
G
Em
G
C

I went from Mecca to Albany a student
G

and landed in medina as a teacher
C
G

I had this rhyme reacher
Verse 19
Em
G

We recognized what what's happening
C
G

I'm making records and I'm winning
G

But that's another story and
Am

it's only the beginning
Em
G
Brooklyn, New York to wherever
Verse 20
C
G

you at

This is autobiographical taking you back
C
Em
C

Not my whole entire life
G
C

but just a slice of the pie
G
C

A few pieces of the who what when where's and whys
Outro 1
Am
C
G
C
G
Bm

C
G

C
G
C

G
Em
C

Em
C
G

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