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Country cousins chords by
Talib Kweli
Talib Kweli
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Verse 1
D

Yo son, what the deal,
B

son? What's really hood, son?
Bbm

The word is bond, shit is real, shit is real
A

Yo son, this block is dead

Nigga need to go over here
C

and pop off real quick
G

Yo, I gotta get that guap by any means
Verse 2

You know what I'm sayin', son?
D

Growin' up in Brooklyn, shit
C

I thought that everybody

talked this way
B

Raised on Rakim and Run- DMC
Bbm

So I thought that everybody
A

'Walked This Way'
Verse 3

We fresh, we chill, we def, we ill

It's just some things I was taught to say
C

And every Saturday morning
Em

I watched cartoons with
C

a bowl of Frosted Flakes
Verse 4
D

The puberty came,
C

started hittin' them cuties with game
B

And the truancy came (uh)

Started cuttin' in just class,
Bbm
A

I was comin' all fast, I was new to game

Used to playin' on TV courtesy
C

of video music box
G

Plus knew a lot of hustlas, goin' O.T.,

comin' back with the new Hip Hop
Verse 5
D

Like E- 40 holding down the yay (that yay),
C
B

N.W.A. in L.A.

OutKast from the A- Town,
Bbm
A

way down in Houston, they play the UGK

I walk and talk kinda fast and thought
C

of as a New York kinda rhymer
Em
C

But must New Yorkers got family in South
D

and North Carolina (c'mon)
Verse 6
C

L.A. is little Alabama They

walk and they talk with

a country grammar
B

New York think everybody else sound country,
Bbm
A

so they started, started callin 'em 'Bamas

Down south where we buy them hammers,
C

down south where we sell them drugs

Down south where life is cheap,
G

where they quick to fill you with them slugs
Verse 7
D

It's nothin',
C

I'm from New York but I got country cousins
B

It's nothin',
Bbm

you stay connected by the slang you bustin'
A

Want it simply put? You can't rip me,
C

when I spit for the set, everyone free

I'ma underground king,
Em

nigga Pimp C free
C

Word up to my man Bun B, what?
Verse 8
D

It's nothin',
C

I'm from New York but I got country cousins
B

It's nothin',
Bbm

you stay connected by the slang you bustin'
A

The things you bustin', the game you hustlin',
C

the days you're cuttin'
G

The flame you cuffin' and the lames you snuffin',
Verse 9

your name is nothin'
D

Growin' up in P.A.,
C
B

I knew nobody out there talked like us
Bbm

Nothin' but that county slang,
A

what up, dog? What up, cuzz?

Late night you see us guzzlin' 40's,
C

menthols, wine and weed

Sittin' on the back porch,
Verse 10

gettin' zooted, feelin' fine indeed
D
C
B

Listenin' to Eric B, and Rakim or EPMD

Cool C and Steady B,
Bbm
A

plus that Public Enemy

Not to mention N.W.A., DJ
C

Quik and MC Eiht

Down south we listen to it all,
G

we didn't discriminate
Verse 11
D

Then along came Geto Boys,
C

Raheem and the Royal Flush
B
Bbm

Rap- A- Lot Records based out in Houston,
A

represents for us

OG style, they cars,
C

ditch that 4 and too much trouble
Em

Our squad is gangsta nig ga,
C

put it down for H- Town on the double
Verse 12
D

So I said it's time to hustle,
C

got down with my brother C
B
Bbm

Put together UGK and shit,
A

the rest is history

We make hits by the dozen,
C

put it down when they said we wasn't

Trust me it's nothin',
G
D

just another day in the life for country cousins
Verse 13
C

It's nothin', I'm from New York
B

but I got country cousins

It's nothin',
Bbm

you stay connected by the slang you bustin'
A

Want it simply put? You can't rip me,
C

when I spit for the set, everyone free

I'ma underground king,
Em

nigga Pimp C free
Verse 14

Word up to my man Bun be, what?
D

It's nothin',
C

I'm from New York but I got country cousins
B

It's nothin',
Bbm
A

you stay connected by the slang you bustin'

The things you bustin', the game you hustlin',
C

the days you're cuttin'
G

The flame you cuffin' and the lames you snuffin',

your name is nothin'
Verse 15
D

In Brooklyn, New York,
C

I'm down with Large and Marl
B
Bbm

Back in P.A.T., man, we be sippin' the barre
A

I'm down with J from Houston

and I think it should be
C

But when I'm out in L.A.,
G

I fuck with Ice- T
Verse 16
D

$hort Dog is my OG, we
C

been down forever
B

Taught me the game, lane to lane,
Bbm

and keep my pimpin' together
A

Niggas don't understand

by far back in the day
C

It was 'mazin' and my brother
G

put me up on Black Star
Verse 17
D

Start as blacks off the news,
C

I weighed
B

'Cause we isolate ourselves and
Bbm

give our ghetto pass away
A

My niggas passed away in an unreal way
C

They mommas' depleted
Em

I'm just tryna make sure

that their kids straight
C
I'm on the
Verse 18
D

Chitlin' tour with
C

my mic in my hand
B

Shittin' on these jealous
Bbm

niggaz in the new world clan
A

I wouldn't trade it for nothin',

only a crazy man would
C

I represent for the whole south,
G

I made it just for my hood
D

The pimpin's good (i got cousins)
Verse 19
C

I got cousins (I got cousins), country
B
Bbm

cousins (country cousins)
A
C

Like blood that's thicker than water
Em

(it's nothin'), down dirty 'cross the border
C
D
C
B

I got cousins (I got cousins), country
Bbm

cousins (country cousins)
A
C

Like blood that's thicker than water
G

(it's nothin'), down dirty 'cross the border
D

They're my country cousins
Outro 1
C
B
Bbm

A
C

Em
C
D
C
B

Bbm
A
C


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