Struggled & Strived chords by 
The Click 
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Key: F# minor•
Verse 1
F#m
I grip my teeth to keep release,
keep my faith and hope.
I grip my teeth to keep release,
D
keep my faith and hope.
B
Bm
D
Need to stop stressing for I have a stroke.
F#m
Up in that lower development housing
D
house , tormenting turmoil
B
Food in our refrigerator,
D
F#m
nev er had a chance to spoil
You know why?
D
Wasn't rich, wasn't poor
B
You know why?
D
F#m
It's the wire cable from next door
D
B
Sleeping on the floor, hectic, hectic
F#m
But that's expected when you're neglected
I never could afford no
Knox
D
B
D
And everybody else had brand new bikes
F#m
I used to hike to school in
D
the rain with fools
B
D
Thirteen deep in the ghetto streets
F#m
I've struggled and I've strived
D
B
D
Struggled an d I've strived
F#m
Been a hustler all my life
D
B
Been a hustler all my life
D
F#m
I ain't rich and I ain't poor
D
Can't get more dirt than
B
D
you would know
F#m
I've struggled an d
D
B
D
F#m
I've strived
D
B
And 1984 was the year for the shot
D
To step through the dome
F#m
That's when my daddy
walked away from my mama
D
B
She tried to work it out,
D
but it wasn't no stop pin'
F#m
Barely payin' the rent,
D
B
she had four mouths to feed
D
Hot wa ter, corn bread
F#m
Watchin' her stress while my
D
momma straight hand me thangs
B
Calls the youngster like the
Bm
shot gun jumpin'
D
F#m
Comin' up wasn't easy
D
for the notch that I be
B
Livin' day -to -day depended
D
on the first and fifteenth
F#m
I had two kids to raise from a teenage love
D
B
You couldn't tell me a thang
D
because I knew what was up
F#m
I struggle and I strive
D
B
Struggle an d I strive
D
F#m
Been a hustler all my life
D
B
Been a hustler all my life
D
F#m
I ain't rich and I ain't poor
D
B
D
I get more dirt than you
F#m
D
B
Struggle an d I strive
F#m
Bm
F#m
I brought it down the block
crooked at sixteen
D
B
Bought my first twenty -t
D
wo from a dope fiend
I kept my nose clean
F#m
D
Paper by all means and only real
B
D
niggas rolled on the tin
F#m
Most of you ain't never had to pawn it
D
B
Bm
D
A lot of you ain't never had to stone it
F#m
D
But it's something different on my behalf
B
D
B
Do what I do to get the cash
F#m
My daddy didn't give me shit
D
B
I had to struggle and strive to
D
make a motherfuckin' grip
F#m
D
And every dollar and fifteen cent s
B
I gave it to my mama cause we
D
wasn't that rich
F#m
D
Hold me the notch, give up the twat
B
D
Hoes wasn't takin' that shit on my block
F#m
We had a lot of foes when we
D
first started out
Now it's players every
B
where from the north to the south
F#m
I struggled an d I strived
D
B
Bm
Struggled an d I strived
D
F#m
Been a hustler all my life
D
B
Oh yeah
F#m
Play rich and I ain't poor
D
B
I played my third game years ago
D
F#m
D
B
F#m
D
B
I struggled an d I strived
D
F#m
D
B
F#m
D
B
D
F#m
D
B
F#m
It's been a since you've been down,
D
B
D
but I thought I'd throw it all
F#m
D
B
I struggled an d I tried
C#
F#m
It's been a rough one
in the meantime
D
B
F#m
But I'm still gonna do it all
D
F#m
D
B
C#m
I struggled an d I tried
F#m
Gotta get a dollar from everywhere
D
B
Gotta get a dollar from everywhere
D
F#m
D
B
I struggled an d I tried
F#m
I'm rich and I'm fine
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF#m D B Bm C#...
F#m
D
B
Bm
C#
C#m
Capo: 2
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