Music For Life chords by Nas
Verse 1
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Yo, I don't know where to start,
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Uh check it out, music is - my total
existence dawg straight up,
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Everything in my life
revolves around music,
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It's like. you can't get a
relationship 'cuz...
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I'm still with. my first love which is music,
You know what I'm sayin'? fo 'real,
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The reason I'm here is. is J.Dilla just like that peace,
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Yea, yea
Em
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It started with rhythms I heard listenin' to the wall,
Em
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The bouncin' of basketballs on playgrounds an' all,
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The empty bottles that's hollow,
wind blowin' inside 'em,
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The flow and the rhymin' got my
alignment to a Science,
Mixin' with my moms in the kitchen
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them spoons rattlin',
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Pots and pans faucet water pourin'
tunes managin',
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To come from all the fussin'
and ramblin'
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What I noticed was - pure music
untampered with,
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By things show biz does; older
thugs showed us stuff,
Like how to hold a plug,
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juice from the street light,
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It almost could have blowed us up,
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Crates of records; great sessions
had the whole hood jammin',
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Large speakers fresh made; smell
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the wood sandin',
Father did his blues smooth
legendary jazz man,
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Saw his wife secondary to
his true passion,
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Started with my crew rappin' new
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jacks in '82,
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Never looked back now look what
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it changed me to. music.
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We gotta believe the future,
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We gotta believe the past,
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We gotta believe in more,
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Didn't know that we haaave,
We gotta believe each other,
Em
We gotta open up our minds,
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Em
Cause music is for liiife.
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for life
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Em
Uh, what's the difference
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between me and you?
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It's I'ma real kind show this
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rap shit I'd really do it,
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My whole life man is really music,
Through my base line I'm livin'
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through it,
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Another expression of life
I couldn't live without,
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I like my music pure - not
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watered down,
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Damn! it felt good to fulfill the dreams
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of gettin' out the hood,
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Kept me busy gave ma a chance
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to stop sellin' drugs,
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Spinnin' time in the basement
kept me from actin' up,
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Zonin' out; wishing Dre
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could check it out,
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I'm here now I can't believe
it; proof in the Puddin',
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Everything happened for a reason,
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Through this music I'm
able to feed the family,
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When I'm stressed out
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it's my sanity,
Em
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It's a life style all in the streets
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and in Hollywood,
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Music in my DNA - it's
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my livelihood. music.
Em
We gotta believe the children,
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We gotta believe in hope,
We gotta believe in more,
Em
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Didn't know that we'd know,
See we gotta believe each other,
Em
We gotta open up our minds,
F
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Em
Cause music is for liiife. for life
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Em
Keep the music alive,
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The good and the strong survive,
I closed my eyes and imagined
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I was Jackson Five,
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Randy and Michael goin'
through life cycle,
Music alive leader - let life go
So vital to a youngster comin' up
amongst street hustlers
The big be the toucher's since
such a special place
Em
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Givin' the ghetto a taste of what
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freedom is like,
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I reached a point in my life where I
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was needin' the mic',
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No second guessin' self- expression an' lessons learned,
Agression became sessions
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where sessions burned,
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Put my soul in to it,
now my feet is firm,
And the game - where name
is hard to earn,
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And hot cat's careers get scarred
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and burned through the years,
Em
mine took a godly turn,
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this is the story of my life here
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trapped in a verse,
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No matter money or the movies
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- music is first, yea.
Em
We gotta believe the future,
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We gotta believe the past,
We gotta believe in more,
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didn't know that we had it,
We gotta believe each other,
Em
We gotta open up our minds,
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cause music is for
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liiife. for li- i- ife,
So we gotta believe the children,
Em
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We gotta believe in hope,
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Em
We gotta believe in more than all we knoow,
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So we gotta believe each other,
Em
We gotta open up our minds,
F
Am
Em
D
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Cause music is
for liiiife.
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