Then & Now chords by Raphi

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Baug
D#dim
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Verse 1
Em 
That was then, and this is now
B 
Yesterday is gone, no time to clown
Changing the season
happens for a reason
Better put keeping our heads
up before today
Am 
Cause that was then, and this is now
Baug 
B 
Yesterday is gone, no time to clown
Em 
Changing the season
happens for a reason
Better put keeping our heads up
before today
Now I know you might,
might not know who we are
Flow on this mic and go buy TR's
B 
Paid my dues in the streets of SoCal
Quick to rip through a page
like a 12 -gauge blast
Am 
Jump on stage, correct for my crew
Baug 
Don't step,
D#dim 
we see through the 1 -2 -8 troop
Em 
Folsify, cultural doctrine
If you're gonna be talkin',
if you gotta be knockin'
Everybody's watchin', including me
Big shame, take it aimin', forever we'll be
Am 
Go on the grind big time, I ain't blind
D#dim 
B 
I'm tryin'   to see what it's like
up in the promised land
Am 
But I promise, man, I'm an honest man
So whatever you see me get
B 
D#dim 
No need to trip,
Em 
you can rest assured I earned it
Had to learn quick, so I did
Am 
Barely recall being a kid
B 
Hindsight, whatever,
Em 
I'm like, that was then
Then, and this is now
B 
Yesterday is gone, no time to clown
Am 
D#dim 
Changing the season hap
B 
pens for a reason
Better for keeping our heads
up before today
D 
Cause that was then
Am 
Then, and this is now
B 
Yesterday is gone, no time to clown
Em 
Changing the season
happens for a reason
Better for keeping our heads up
before today
I've seen them come,
and I've seen them go
A lot of them do run,
B 
but all of them won't grow up
So watch your back, keep an eye on
The ones who set trap,
and the ones who do fall
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Am 
I won't    make bets,
that I can't pay back
B 
But I don't take threats,
so you better not say that
Em 
Till we comin' to take
back our portion
Caution, get lost in thought
B 
Em 
Like Elson Monshon ain't quit
tin' till I'm on top
Am 
Watch, fool please,
Em 
you be trippin' playin' hopscotch
B 
I drop heavenly skills
from Beverly Hills to Watts
I'll never be thrilled by runnin'
the mill roadkill
Am 
It's not for me,
Rafi watches the hypocrisy
B 
Hip -Hop Monopoly
Baug 
C 
Em 
Used to     rock the block for free
For three or four, maybe more
Outdoors in the cold, food be old
B 
I know that was then,
Em 
and this is now
Yesterday is gone, no time to clown
B 
Change in the season,
happens for a reason
Better for keeping our heads up,
live for today
Am 
Cause that was then, and this is now
B 
D 
Yesterday is gone, no time to clown
Am 
Change in the season,
Em 
happens for a   reason
Am 
Em 
Better for keeping our heads up  ,
live for today
I've done shows in the rain with no mic
The grub underground when being down
B 
was throwin' up a dub in the club,
when pistol grip bumped
Because you knew who it was,
not just because it bumped
Am 
Before the Lakers came up
and broke the slump
B 
Baug 
Never used to pop col    lar,
B 
Em 
nugs would pop the trunk
up at house parties
Death room, bad boys,
even before that,
reminiscing over T -boy
You know, post -hammer,
pre -masterpiece
Before the blasphemy,
they used to laugh at me
Am 
A middle -class MC,
B 
no big -face big, just skilled
Am 
Before Big and Pac got killed,
Rodney King was beaten by the cops
B 
And we all watched up on
the news in shock
Em 
Saw Gutierre get booted
C 
An excuse to get loose and reused it
Em 
Verdict came back, not guilty
Then we looted inside hours it cold
So, so it made no sense
But life had no consequence
B 
Making anything fun like it was all pretend
The back streets with the Jodeci
And boys to men, guess that was then
D#dim 
Am 
And      this is now
B 
D 
Yesterday is gone, no time to clown
Em 
Changing the season
happens for a reason
Fed up but I keep my head up
Am 
Adim 
B 
until they take me away
Baug 
B 
Am 
Baug 
B 
Em 
B 
D#dim 
B 
Am 
B 
Em 
Background
B 
Am 
Adim 
Am 
Baug 
B 
Em 
C 
Am 
I'll see the you