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