Key: Gb major
Verse 1
Am
When I was 17 I was staying in NYC
And my homie told me where
I could get a fake ID
D
"Aiyo son you better get
Am
D
that shit when you in NY"
So I hopped on the subway and
Am
I gave it a try
D
Am
Plesant surprise the ID looked fine
5'9, blues eyes, born in 1979
Nervous as hell I went to the
store with my homie
Came out and yelled "Dawg they
sold me a 40"
C
Yeah, you know that I was the man
Buying the contraband with
D
a fake ass hologram
C
No more looking for bums,
Am
standing in the rain
Stranded on Broadway and giving
D
'em all my change
Em
For the rest of the
D
summer man I was on fades
Am
17, had it made, getting drunk everyday
D
Eh, I got treated a whole new way
C
Because of a piece of plastic
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D
that proved I was of age
Verse 2
D
You know what I'm saying,
C
all of a sudden you get this little piece of plastic and you're in the club
Verse 3
C
Now for the next three years I had
Am
C
so much fun
Am
Getting drunk in Hip- Hop clubs
where you had to be 21
Then one day I was walking
D
Am
and I saw a sign
That said KRS- One 21 up and live
Em
That's hella tight
C
Aiyo I heard he always
Am
C
D
C
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ripped it
D
So I hopped up in my Civic
and went out to by a ticket
Am
When I got up the the door
the bouncer checking ID's
D
Looks at mine and he's like "Nah
Am
we don't take these"
I tried to reach and grab
my shit back
But the mother fucker was tougher
than Shaq, on crack
D
Am
I should've punched him, but
I would have reached his knee cap
Verse 4
And that probably wouldn't have
C
D
hurt him very much
Verse 5
Em
G
D
He kept laughing and smilin' and he
Am
D
called me a dumb shit
Am
D
Am
C
Am
And if I would of let myself
C
D
C
I would have cried in public
D
Oh no, I'm like give it
Am
D
back bro
But no, my ID was jacked by the
Am
Caucasian Deebo
Verse 6
Am
C
Ha I'm laughing right now but at the time it really was
G
Am
D
not funny and it's still not very funny fucker
C
Bitch
Verse 7
Am
D
why you
got to take my ID?
C
D
Why do I have to be 21 to drink
Am
G
Am
a Long Island Ice tea?
D
Am
D
I hate bouncers with their bald heads and ten foot tall legs
C
Em
C
and shirts that they outgrew when they were like ten
Am
Your mother is dumb for having you
You're a bouncer because you have a small
D
Am
dick and as a kid everyone laughed at you
You're too big and
you never seemed to listen
You look injected with the shit
they give to KFC chickens
Em
Am
C
I don't like ya, at all
D
Em
G
I despise you
D
C
Am
If I was tall I would fight you
D
Am
If I was a dog I would bite you
C
Am
C
Every single day you make people cry
D
C
And your job is to go and ru
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in teenager's lives
C
Ok I'm going too far
D
bouncers aren't all bad
I'm sure they make great husbands
C
D
and really strong dads
C
Am
But hopefully you
D
learned a lesson from me
Never take an MC's fake ID
Yup, I said never take an MC's fake ID
Verse 8
C
You could
D
be buff and tough,
it don't matter to me
'Cause you're going to
get burned if you step to MCs
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