Carry On Tradition chords by Nas
Verse 1
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Yeah, niggas want to
talk about this rap shit
Niggas want to talk about
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this money
About these cars, these homes
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These la bels, clothes,
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sneakers, big money shit
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Now everybody tryin' to get rich
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Now get rich niggas, fuck it
Verse 2
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Some rap pioneers,
be them crackheads
When they speak, you see missin' teeth,
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silver chain with a silver piece
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Niggas your grandfather's age,
they pants still hangin' down they legs
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Talkin' about they ain't paid
Verse 3
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And they hate you, 'cause they
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say, you ain't pay dues
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Em
And was stealin' and robbin' them
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Em
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I feel it's a problem we gotta resolve
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Hip- hop been dead,
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we the reason it died
Verse 4
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Wasn't Sylvia's fault or because
MC's skills are lost
It's 'cause we can't see
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ourselves as the boss
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Deep- rooted through slavery,
self- hatred
The Jewish stick together,
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friends in high places
Verse 5
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We on some low level shit
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We don't want niggas to ever win,
Em
see, everybody got a label
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Everybody's a rapper but few flow fatal
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It's fucked up,
Verse 6
it all started from two turntables
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When they crown you and
you rise up to your position
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Carry on tradition
Am
When they Knight you then you go to fight,
go to war, don't petition
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Carry on tradition, carry on tradition
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Carry on, ca- carry on,
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Em
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carry on tra dition
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Carry on tradition
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When you rep what we rep
then carry on tradition
Verse 7
Am
Now some of these new rappers got
their caps flipped backwards
Wit their fingers intertwined
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in some gang- sign madness
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I got an exam, let's see if y'all pass it
Let's see who can quote a Daddy
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Kane line the fastest
Verse 8
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Some of you new rappers,
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I don't understand your code
You have your man shoot you, like in that
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Sop ranos episode
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Do anythin' to get in the game,
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mixtapes, you spit hate
Against bosses,
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hungry fucks are moraless
Verse 9
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You should be tossed in a pit full of unfortunate
vocalists
Niggas, I coulda wrote your shit
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I had off- time, was bored wit this,
I coulda made my double- LP
Just by samplin' different
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parts of Nautilus
Verse 10
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Still came five on the charts
with zero audience
Am
The lane was open and y'all was
Em
droppin' that garbage shit
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Em
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Y'all got awards for your bricks,
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it got good to ya
You started tellin' them bigger dogs
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to call it quits? What?
Verse 11
Am
When they crown you and you rise up
to your position
G
Carry on tradition
Am
When they Knight you then you go to fight,
go to war, don't petition
G
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G
Carry on tradition, carry on tradition
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Carry on, ca- carry on,
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Em
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carry on tra dition
Em
Carry on tradition
Am
G
When you rep what we rep
then carry on tradition
Verse 12
Am
Now niggas got the studio poppin',
it's mad clearer
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Engineers got his earplugs and still hear us
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The live- in- the- park sound,
versus the studio state of art sound
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We on the charts now
Verse 13
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From British Walkers and Argyles
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Look at us rap stars now,
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Em
wit our black cars now
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Em
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Fortune 500 listed, brunches,
Cipriani's
Sippin', blunted,
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with rich white guys around me
Verse 14
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Thick white girls around me, Chinese
lined up
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Because I'm what, every dime lust
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We used to be a ghetto secret,
can't make my mind up
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If I want that or the whole world to peep it
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Em
Now carry on tradition Fuck a bum
Verse 15
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wack rapper makin' his
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career out of dissin'
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Peace to the strugglin' artists and dead one's gone,
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we miss 'em
Verse 16
I promise I carry on tradition
Am
When they crown you and
you rise up to your position
G
Carry on tradition
Am
When they Knight you then you go to fight,
go to war, don't petition
G
F
G
Carry on tradition, carry on tradition
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Carry on, ca- carry on,
Am
Em
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carry on tra dition
Em
Carry on tradition
G
When you rep what we rep then carry on
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Carry On Tradition
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