A Week Ago chords by
Jay‐z
Jay‐z

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Key: B minor
Verse 1
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Uh- huh
That's right
Uh- huh- uh,
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it was all good just a week ago
Last week I had everything
Uh, uh- huh- uh,
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Am
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had this all good just a week ago
I had the money, had the cars,
the bitches
Uh- huh, yeah,
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it was all good just a week ago
F
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And the jewelry
And then my motherfucking niggas
started snitching
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Uh- huh, uh uh, yo
Bitch!
Verse 2
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Growing up in the hood just
my dog and me
We used to hustle in the hood for,
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all to see
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Problems, I called on him,
he called on me
We wasn't quite partners,
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I hit him off my P
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Let him unlocked doors, off my keys
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Yeah we spoke, much more than cordially
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Man he broke bread with me,
my business spreads with me
The Feds came to get me,
Em
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we both fled quickly
Am
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Wasn't quick enough to jump
over the hedges with me
Got caught, and that's when our
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re lationship strained
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Used to call me from the joint 'til
he ran out of change
And when he called collect
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and I heard his name
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I quickly accepted,
but when I reached the phone
He's talkin' reckless,
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I can sense de ceit in his tone
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I said, "Damn dog, what,
nine weeks and you're home?"
He said, "Main man,
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you think shit's sweet 'cause you're home"
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I just sat, spat no more
speech in the phone
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The crackers up there bleaching your dome,
you're reaching
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I said, "The world don't stop I've got
to keep keep on"
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From there I sensed the beef was on
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I ran to the spot,
store to add some more features on my phone
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To see if I had bugs an
d leeches on my phone
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Can't be too safe cause niggas
is two- faced
And they show the other side
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when they catch a new case
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It's on
It was cool when you had hella weed to smoke
Verse 3
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And
you bought a new home
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where you could keep the folks
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I don't see how this side of you could
be provoked
(Uh- huh, uh- huh,
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it was all good just a week ago)
Verse 4
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Funny what, seven days can change
A stand up nigga,
Em
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now you sit down to aim
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Used to have a firm grip now
you dropping names
Uh- huh, uh- huh (It was all
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good just a week ago)
Verse 5
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Like I put the toast to your head
and made you sell
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We both came in this game, blind as hell
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I did a little better, had more clientele
Told you put away some cheddar
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now you crying for bail
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Seventeen and I'm holding
on to around a mil'
I could bail out and blow trial
and come around on the pill
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F
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Had niggas thinking I was from
Uptown for real
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I had so much hustle plus I was down to ill
Am
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Like a Brooklyn nigga,
straight out of Brownsville
Down and dirty,
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down to fight 'til round thirty
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Freezing on them corners still
holding my crack
Looking up and down the block,
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the fuck is the dough at?
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Came from flat broke to letting
the dough stack
You tell them feds I said
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I'm never going back
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I'm from Marcy,
and Marcy don't raise no rats
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You know the consequences of your acts,
you can't be serious
Verse 6
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It was cool when you had
hella weed to smoke
And you bought a new home
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where you could keep the folks
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I don't see how this side of you
could be provoked
(Uh- huh, uh- huh,
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Am
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it was all good just a week ago)
Verse 7
Am
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Funny what, seven days can change
A stand up nigga,
Em
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now you sit down to aim
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Used to have a firm grip now
you dropping names
Uh- huh, uh- huh (It was all
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good just a week ago)
Verse 8
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The lawyer I retained you said
you leaking some things
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All this after a week in the bang
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I'm mad at my self 'cause I didn't
spot the weak and lame
I would of bet the house
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you wouldn't speak a thing
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Nig ga this was the oath,
to the top of broke
Even pricked our finger,
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anything that got between us
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We 'sposed to cock the ninas,
what happened to that?
Instead you copped out to
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a misdemeanor
Am
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Fuck it, the same thing make
you laugh make you cry
That's right, the same game that make
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you mad could make you die
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It's a dice game,
and sometimes you crap
Who would of thought you'd get
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popped one time and rat?
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Now you know that's bad
when your sister is mad
And your son gotta grow up like,
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"This is my dad?"
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The labeling of a snitch
is a lifetime scar
You'll always be in jail nigga,
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just minus the bars
Verse 9
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It was cool when you had
hella weed to smoke
And you bought a new home
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where you could keep the folks
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I don't see how this side of you could
be provoked
Em
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(Uh- huh, uh- huh, it was all good
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just a week ago)
Verse 10
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Funny what, seven days can change
A stand up nigga,
Em
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now you sit down to aim
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Used to have a firm grip now
you dropping names
Uh- huh, uh- huh (It was all good
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Am
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just a week ago)
Verse 11
Shit is crazy man
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All these nig gas out here
F
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snitching
We was one step away from
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Am
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taking this crack money
And recycling it through the ghettos
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And building back up our own hoods
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Now all you niggas start
snitching on each other
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I got partners doing 15- 20
Wouldn't to been doing SHIT
If you didn't snitch
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Bitch!
It's about time y'all check
that shit out man
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Am
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It ain't all good
Shut your mouth
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F
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Just watch the game
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And don't snitch
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Em
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It sure will do a lot for you
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Believe that baby
Jay- z, Short Dawg's in the house main
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Am
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You know I got it
Got it goin on
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We got the money
Ain't got nuthin' to
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do with crime baby
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But I'm recognizing
You rat bastard!

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