Key: A major•
Verse 1
A
B
G#m
B
C#
F#m
This ain't for everybody
A
F#m
A
Y'all who y'all are
G#m
A
B
C#
Yeah you, you know who you are
F#m
A
These are our heroes, ha ha
Verse 2
A
F#m
B
Let's hear it, one for the coon s
C#
F#m
A
on UPN 9 and WB
Who 'Yes Massa' on TV
C#
F#m
C#
F#m
The Redd Foxx's?
G#m
F#m
Let's hear it, two for the spook
B
C#
F#m
C#
F#m
s who do cartwheels
A
F#m
Cause they said they played
G#m
B
Now they claim caviar,
F#m
A
Lambda Sigma Phi badge on lapel
F#m
A
Are you the one we look to,
D
A
G#m
the de cent Negro?
B
C#
The acceptable Negro? Hell nah
F#m
A
But they say "These are our heroes"
Verse 3
B
C#
be bigger to go play
F#m
A
Ath letes of today in the
G#m
B
From OJ to Kobe,
F#m
A
First he played his life
D
A
cool just like Michael
B
C#
Now he rock ice too just like I do
F#m
A
Yo, you can't do better than that?
G#m
B
The hotel clerk who adjusts
F#m
A
F#m
A
Now you lose sponsorships that
F#m
A
you thought had your back
G#m
B
G#m
B
C#
Yeah, you beat the rap
You turn around then you
G#m
B
C#
Who woulda knew, Mr Goodie- Two- Shoes
F#m
A
He love a little butt crack,
D
A
got enough cash
B
A
Little kids with they bus
B
C#
pass who look up to you
F#m
A
F#m
But you let them use
B
C#
you as an example
Verse 4
G#m
A
B
Let's hear it, one for the coons
C#
F#m
on UPN 9 and WB
A
C#
A
C#
F#m
The Redd Foxx's?
A
D
A
Never got Emmy's but were real to me
C#
F#m
who do cartwheels
Cause they said they
B
C#
Now they claim caviar, hate that oxtail
F#m
A
Lambda Sigma Phi badge on lapel
he speak so well"
B
G#m
the decent Negro?
A
B
A
The acceptable Negro? Hell nah
F#m
A
But they say "These are our heroes"
Verse 5
B
C#
bowtie, apple pie, Bo Jangles
F#m
A
F#m
But your album sound like
G#m
A
B
C#
You don't ride for the facts like um,
say Scarface
A
F#m
A
y'all too safe
G#m
B
Election done came and went,
F#m
A
D
A
Huh, and in the end we all got dicked
C#
F#m
public school systems still rot
snitches on blocks
G#m
B
Selling they peoples out,
C#
F#m
A
some real folks with clout
F#m
A
F#m
A
Tavis Smiley, Michael Eric Dyson
B
C#
let's try to be like them
F#m
A
Nicky Giovanni poetical black female
F#m
G#m
B
C#
Jim Brown to the people
D
A
Fela to Miriam Makeba
These pickaninnies get with
B
C#
anything to sell records
F#m
A
F#m
Cause it's trendy to be the conscious MC
A
B
But next year,
Verse 6
A
F#m
Let's hear it, one for the coon
B
C#
F#m
s on UPN 9 and WB
B
C#
F#m
The Redd Foxx's?
Let's hear it,
G#m
A
A
F#m
two for the spooks who do cartwheels
G#m
A
Now they claim caviar, hate that oxtail
F#m
A
Lambda Sigma Phi badge on lapel
F#m
A
Are you the one we look to,
D
A
G#m
the de cent Negro?
B
C#
The acceptable Negro? Hell nah
F#m
A
F#m
But they say "These are our heroes"
Verse 7
G#m
A
B
Yeah, I wanna give a special
C#
F#m
C#
F#m
A
shout- out to the y'know
F#m
A
F#m
The crew doin' they thing
A
B
out there reppin' us hard
F#m
G#m
B
Yeah, ya don't stop
C#
F#m
Big up to Cuba Gooding Jr
D
A
Y'know, yeah,
G#m
y'know
B
C#
Taye Diggs, what up my nigga,
F#m
A
yeah, ha- ha
And you don't quit, and ya don't quit
C#
F#m
A
F#m
A
And ya don't stop and ya don't quit
Outro 1
G#m
B
G#m
B
C#
F#m
A
F#m
C#
A
C#
C#
F#m
A
F#m
B
C#
C#
F#m
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