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Hip Hop chords by 
Mos Def 
N/A•
Verse 1
Am
F
Dm
Am
F
You say one for the treble,
Dm
two for the time
F
Dm
Come on, y'all, let's rock this
Am
F
You say one for the treble,
Dm
two for the time
Come on
F
Speech is my hammer,
bang the world into shape
Dm
Now let it fall (huh)
F
Dm
My restlessness is my nemesis It's hard to really
Verse 2
Am
F
chill and sit still
Dm
Com mitted to page, I write a rhyme
F
Dm
Sometimes won't finish for days
Am
F
Scrutinize my literature,
Dm
from the large to the miniature
Am
F
Dm
I mathematically administer
Am
Subtract the wack
F
Dm
Selector, wheel it back,
I'm feeling that
F
(Ha ha ha) from the core to
Dm
the perimeter black
Am
You know the motto
F
Dm
"Stay fluid even in staccato"
F
Dm
(Mos Def) full blooded, full throttle
Am
F
Breathe deep inside the drum hollow
Dm
There's the hum,
F
young man where you from?
Dm
Brooklyn number one
Am
F
Native son,
Dm
speaking in the native tongue
Am
F
I got my eyes on tomorrow
(there it is)
Dm
F
While you still tryna find where it is
Dm
I'm on the Ave where it lives and dies
Am
F
Violently but silently
Dm
Am
Dm
F
Shine so vibrantly that
Dm
eyes squint to catch a glimpse
F
Embrace the bass with
Dm
my dark ink fingertips
Am
Used to speak the king's English
Dm
F
But caught a rash on my lips
Dm
So now my chat just like dis
Am
F
Long range from the base-line (swish)
Dm
Move like an apparition
F
Dm
Low to the ground with ammunition
F
(chi-chi-chi-baow)
Dm
Move from the gate,
Am
voice cued on your tape
F
Dm
Putting food on your plate
Am
Many crews can relate
F
Dm
Who choosing your fate? Yo
Am
We went from picking cotton
F
Dm
To chain gang line chopping
To B-Bopping
F
To Hip-Hopping
Dm
Blues Blues people got the
Am
blue chip stock option
Dm
Invisible man,
Am
F
Dm
got the whole world watching
Am
(Where ya at?) I'm high, low, East,
F
Dm
West, all over your map
Am
I'm getting big props,
F
Dm
with this thing called Hip Hop
F
Where you can either get paid
Dm
or get shot
When your product in stock
F
The fair-weather friends
Dm
friends flock
Am
When your chart position drop
F
Then the phone calls
Dm
Chill for a minute
Am
Dm
Let's see who else tops
Snatch your shelf spot
F
Dm
Don't gas yourself akh'
F
The industry just a better built cell block
Dm
A long way from the shell tops
F
Dm
And the bells that L rocked
Am
F
Dm
Rock (rock), rock (rock), rock (rock),
rock (rock)
Rock, rock (ha), rock, rock
Verse 3
Am
F
(Over here just sayin')
Dm
(Hip Hop)
Am
(Class is in session)
F
(Hip Hop, one, on-on-one, one, two,
Dm
Am
F
Dm
Am
F
Am
F
Dm
Am
one, two)
F
Dm
(Sweat inside my hand)
(Hip Hop)
F
Dm
Am
F
(The more emotion I put
Dm
F
into it, the harder I rock)
(Hip Hop)
Dm
Hip Hop is prosecution evidence An
Verse 4
Am
F
out of court settlement,
Dm
ad space for liquor
Am
F
Sick without benefits (huh)
Dm
Luxury tenements choking
F
the skyline
Dm
It's low life getting
tree-top high (top high)
F
Dm
It is a back water remedy
Am
F
Bitter intent to memory,
Dm
a class E felony
Am
F
Facing the death penalty (huh)
Dm
Am
Stimulant and sedative,
F
Dm
original repetitive
Am
Violently competitive,
F
Dm
a school unaccredited (there it is)
Am
The break beats you get broken with
Dm
On time and inappropriate
Am
F
Hip Hop went from selling
crack to smoking it
F
Medicine for loneliness
Dm
Remind me of Thelonius and Dizzy
Am
F
Boppers to B-Boys getting
Dm
busy
Am
F
The war-time snap snap shot
Dm
The working man's jack-pot
F
A A two dollar snack box
Dm
Sold beneath the crack spot
F
Olympic sponsor of the black
Dm
Glock
Gold medalist in the back shot
Dm
From the sovereign state
of the have-nots
F
Dm
Where Where farmers have trouble
with cash crops (huh)
F
Dm
It's all city like Phase 2
Am
F
Hip Hop will simply amaze you
Dm
Praise you, pay you
Am
F
Do whatever you say do
Dm
But, black, it can't save you
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