Country cousins chords by
Talib Kweli

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Key: Bb major•

Verse 1

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Yo son, what the deal,

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son? What's really hood, son?

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

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Yo son, this block is dead

Nigga need to go over here

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and pop off real quick

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Yo, I gotta get that guap by any means

Verse 2

You know what I'm sayin', son?

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Growin' up in Brooklyn, shit

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I thought that everybody

talked this way

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Raised on Rakim and Run- DMC

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So I thought that everybody

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'Walked This Way'

Verse 3

We fresh, we chill, we def, we ill

It's just some things I was taught to say

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And every Saturday morning

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I watched cartoons with

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a bowl of Frosted Flakes

Verse 4

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The puberty came,

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started hittin' them cuties with game

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And the truancy came (uh)

Started cuttin' in just class,

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

Used to playin' on TV courtesy

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of video music box

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

comin' back with the new Hip Hop

Verse 5

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

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N.W.A. in L.A.

OutKast from the A- Town,

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way down in Houston, they play the UGK

I walk and talk kinda fast and thought

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of as a New York kinda rhymer

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But must New Yorkers got family in South

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and North Carolina (c'mon)

Verse 6

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L.A. is little Alabama They

walk and they talk with

a country grammar

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New York think everybody else sound country,

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so they started, started callin 'em 'Bamas

Down south where we buy them hammers,

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down south where we sell them drugs

Down south where life is cheap,

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where they quick to fill you with them slugs

Verse 7

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It's nothin',

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I'm from New York but I got country cousins

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It's nothin',

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you stay connected by the slang you bustin'

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

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when I spit for the set, everyone free

I'ma underground king,

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nigga Pimp C free

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Word up to my man Bun B, what?

Verse 8

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It's nothin',

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I'm from New York but I got country cousins

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It's nothin',

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you stay connected by the slang you bustin'

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

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the days you're cuttin'

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

Verse 9

your name is nothin'

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Growin' up in P.A.,

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I knew nobody out there talked like us

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Nothin' but that county slang,

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what up, dog? What up, cuzz?

Late night you see us guzzlin' 40's,

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menthols, wine and weed

Sittin' on the back porch,

Verse 10

gettin' zooted, feelin' fine indeed

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Listenin' to Eric B, and Rakim or EPMD

Cool C and Steady B,

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plus that Public Enemy

Not to mention N.W.A., DJ

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Quik and MC Eiht

Down south we listen to it all,

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we didn't discriminate

Verse 11

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Then along came Geto Boys,

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Raheem and the Royal Flush

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Rap- A- Lot Records based out in Houston,

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represents for us

OG style, they cars,

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ditch that 4 and too much trouble

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Our squad is gangsta nig ga,

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put it down for H- Town on the double

Verse 12

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So I said it's time to hustle,

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got down with my brother C

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Put together UGK and shit,

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the rest is history

We make hits by the dozen,

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put it down when they said we wasn't

Trust me it's nothin',

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just another day in the life for country cousins

Verse 13

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

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but I got country cousins

It's nothin',

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you stay connected by the slang you bustin'

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

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when I spit for the set, everyone free

I'ma underground king,

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nigga Pimp C free

Verse 14

Word up to my man Bun be, what?

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It's nothin',

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I'm from New York but I got country cousins

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It's nothin',

Dbm

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you stay connected by the slang you bustin'

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

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the days you're cuttin'

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

your name is nothin'

Verse 15

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In Brooklyn, New York,

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I'm down with Large and Marl

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

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I'm down with J from Houston

and I think it should be

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

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I fuck with Ice- T

Verse 16

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$hort Dog is my OG, we

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been down forever

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Taught me the game, lane to lane,

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and keep my pimpin' together

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Niggas don't understand

by far back in the day

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It was 'mazin' and my brother

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put me up on Black Star

Verse 17

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Start as blacks off the news,

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I weighed

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'Cause we isolate ourselves and

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give our ghetto pass away

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My niggas passed away in an unreal way

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They mommas' depleted

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I'm just tryna make sure

that their kids straight

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I'm on the

Verse 18

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Chitlin' tour with

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my mic in my hand

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Shittin' on these jealous

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niggaz in the new world clan

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I wouldn't trade it for nothin',

only a crazy man would

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I represent for the whole south,

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I made it just for my hood

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The pimpin's good (i got cousins)

Verse 19

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I got cousins (I got cousins), country

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cousins (country cousins)

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Like blood that's thicker than water

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

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I got cousins (I got cousins), country

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cousins (country cousins)

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Like blood that's thicker than water

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

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They're my country cousins

Outro 1

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