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The Prelude easy guitar chords by
Jay-z
Jay-z

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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
Em
Am

D
Em
D
Em

Am
D

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