The Prelude chords by Jay-Z
Verse 1
Em
"You know you got this
fantasy in your head
About getting out of the life
And setting the corporate
world on its ear
What the fuck you gonna do
D
Em
Except hustle
Am
D
Em
Besides pimping
D
Em
You really ain't got the stom
Am
ach for that"
D
The game's
Verse 2
fucked up
Em
Niggas beats is banging
D
Nigga ya hooks did it
Em
Ya lyrics didn't
D
Ya gangsta look did it
Em
So I would write it if
D
y'all could get it
Em
D
Being intricate'll get ya wood critics
Em
On the internet
D
They like you should spit it, I'm
Em
like you should buy it
D
Nigga that's good business
Em
D
Forget this rap shit I need
Em
a new hustle
A little bit of everything,
D
Em
a new improved Russell
D
I say that reluctantly 'cause
Em
I do struggle
D
As you see I can't leave
Em
so I do love you
D
But I'm just a hustler
disguised as a rapper
Em
D
In fact you can't fit this hustle
Em
inside of a wrapper
D
Back when crack was what
Em
these pills are
D
Em
I was a real star complete with real cars
D
No video ones,
Em
you can and come set up a camera
D
Let the video run
Em
In my real life complete with
D
Em
real ice
D
VVS boulders all invisibly set
Em
Head an d shoulders my
D
in visible neck
Em
D
You see Hova wasn't digital yet
Em
D
Before Steve Jobs made the iPod
Em
Was getting head jobs,
D
we call that intimate
Em
Back when rappers wouldn't
D
dare play lyrical roulette
Em
With an automatic weapon
D
I was rapping with a Tek
Em
D
Fresh like Manny be chain
Em
like antifreeze
Shoe box full of cash
D
Em
Dealer man hand me keys
D
Pantries full of Arm & Hammer
Em
Don't take Nancy
D
Drew to see what it do
Em
I'ma damn g
D
Just sent a million dollars
Em
through a hands free
D
That's big money talk can
Em
you answer me?
D
Before the Answer was a three
Em
D
I was down in Georgetown with a Hoya chick,
loyal chick
Em
Sure he's rich now 'cause he saw this shit,
all this shit
That's why they call him Hov cause
D
Em
D
he came before all this shit
Em
Bought a six,
D
quarter seven skipped on them quarter 8s
Em
D
Bought a nine for nonstop
Em
glockwork all the time
D
Guess
Verse 3
who's back
Em
Since this is a New Era
D
got a fresh new hat
Em
Ten year veteran
D
Em
I been said I been through
D
with this bullshit game
But I never can
Em
I used to think rapping at
D
thirty eight was ill
Em
D
When last year alone I grossed
about thirty eight mill
Em
I know I ain't quite
D
thirty eight but still
Em
D
The flow so Special got a .38 feel
Em
D
The real is back
Outro 1
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D
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The Prelude
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