Chords with lyrics
Key: C# minorC#m
🎸 Intro:
C# minorC#m
As I get a little older
I realize life is perspective
C# minorC#m
And my perspective may differ from yours
C# minorC#m
I wanna say thank you to everyone that's been down with me
C# minorC#m
All my fans, all my beautiful fans
C# minorC#m
Anyone who's ever gave me a listen, all my people
🎸 Verse 1:
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I come from a generation of pain, where murder is minor
C# minorC#m
Rebellious and Margielas'll chip you for designer
C# minorC#m
Belt buckles and clout, overzealous if prone to violence
C# minorC#m
Make the wrong turn, be it will or the wheel alignment
C# minorC#m
Residue burned, mist of the inner-city
C# minorC#m
Miscommunication to keep homi' detective busy
C# minorC#m
No protection is risky
C# minorC#m
Desensitized
I vandalized pain, covered up and camouflaged
C# minorC#m
Get used to hearin' arsenal rain
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Analyze, risk your life, take the charge
C# minorC#m
Homies done fucked your baby mama once you hit the yard, that's culture
C# minorC#m
Twenty-three hour lockdown, then somebody called
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Said your lil' nephew was shot down, the culture's involved
C# minorC#m
I done seen niggas do seventeen, hit the halfway house
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Get out and get his brains blown out, lookin' to buy some weed
C# minorC#m
Car wash is played out, new GoFundMe accounts'll proceed
C# minorC#m
A augmentedA brand-new victim'll shatter those dreams, the culture
🎸 Chorus:
C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
(I want
I want
I want
I want)
G# minorG#m Amaj7Amaj7
But I want you to want me too
G# minorG#m G#7#9 F# minorF#m
I want the hood to want me back
BB
I want the hood
EMaj7Emaj7
Look what I done for you (Look what I done for you)
G#7G#7
Look what I done for you
🎸 Verse 2:
C# minorC#m
I said I'd do this for my culture
C# minorC#m
To let y'all know what a nigga look like in a bulletproof Rover
F# minorF#m
In my mama's sofa was a doo-doo popper
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Hair trigger, walk up closer, ain't no Photoshoppin'
BB
Friends bipolar, grab you by your pockets
BB
No option if you froze up, always play the offense
G# minorG#m
Niggas goin' to work and sellin' work, late for work
G#7G#7
Workin' late, prayin' for work, but he on paperwork
C# minorC#m
That's the culture, point the finger, promote ya
C# minorC#m
Remote location, witness protection, they gon' hold ya
F# minorF#m
The streets got me fucked up, y'all can miss me
F# minorF#m
I wanna represent for us
BB
New revolution was up and movin'
BB
I'm in Argentina wiping my tears full of confusion
G# minorG#m
Water in between us, another peer's been executed
G# minorG#m
History repeats again
G#7G#7 C# minorC#m
Make amends, then find a nigga with the same skin to do it
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But that's the culture, crack a bottle
C# minorC#m
Hard to deal with the pain when you're sober
F# minorF#m
By tomorrow, we forget the remains, we start over
G# minorG#m
That's the problem
G# minorG#m Amaj7Amaj7
Our foundation was trained to accept whatever follows
Amaj7Amaj7 G# minorG#m
Dehumanized, insensitive
G# minorG#m
Scrutinize the way we live for you and I
F# minorF#m
Enemies shook my hand
I can promise I'll meet you
BB
In the land where no equal is your equal
EMaj7Emaj7
Never say I ain't told ya, nah
G#7G#7
In the land where hurt people hurt more people
G#7G#7 C# minorC#m
Fuck callin' it culture
🎸 Chorus:
C# minorC#m F# minorF#m
(I want
I want
I want
I want)
G# minorG#m Amaj7Amaj7
But I want you to want me too
G# minorG#m G#7#9 F# minorF#m
I want the hood to want me back
BB
I want the hood
EMaj7Emaj7
Look what I done for you (Look what I done for you)
G#7G#7
Look what I done for you
🎸 Interlude:
C# minorC#m
Take the drums out
F# minorF#m
Phew, phew
BB
Phew, phew
G#7G#7
Phew
🎸 Verse 3:
C# minorC#m
Celebrate new life when it come back around
C# minorC#m
The purpose is in the lessons we learnin' now
F# minorF#m
Sacrifice personal gain over everything
F# minorF#m
Just to see the next generation better than ours
BB
I wasn't perfect, the skin I was in had truly suffered
BB
Temptation and patience, everything that the body nurtures
G#7G#7
I felt the good
I felt the bad, and I felt the worry
G#7G#7
But all-in-all, my productivity had stayed urging
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Face your fears, always knew that I would make it here
C# minorC#m
Where the energy is magnified and persevered
F# minorF#m
Consciousness is synchronized and crystal-clear
F# minorF#m
Euphoria is glorified and made His
BB
Reflectin' on my life and what I done
BB
Paid dues, made rules, change outta love
G#7G#7
Them same views made schools change curriculums
G#7G#7
But didn't change me starin' down the barrel of that gun
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Should I feel resentful I didn't see my full potential?
C# minorC#m
Should I feel regret about the good that I was into?
F# minorF#m
Everything is everything, this ain't coincidental
F# minorF#m
I woke up that morning with more heart to give you
BB
As I bleed through the speakers, feel my presence
BB
To my brother, to my kids
I'm in Heaven
G#7G#7
To my mother, to my sis
I'm in Heaven
G#7G#7
To my father, to my wife
I am serious, this is Heaven
C#madd9C#madd9
To my friends, make sure you countin' them blessings
C#madd9C#madd9
To my fans, make sure you make them investments
F# minorF#m
And to the killer that sped up my demise
F# minorF#m
I forgive you, just know your soul's in question
BB
I seen the pain in your pupil when that trigger had squeezed
BB
And though you did me gruesome
I was surely relieved
G#m7G#m7
I completed my mission, wasn't ready to leave
G#7G#7
But fulfilled my days, my Creator was pleased
C#madd9C#madd9
I can't stress how I love y'all
C#madd9C#madd9
I don't need to be in flesh just to hug y'all
F# minorF#m
The memories recollect just because y'all
F# minorF#m
Celebrate me with respect
F# minorF#m
The unity we protect is above all
BB
And Sam
I'll be watchin' over you
BB
Make sure my kids watch all my interviews
G#m7G#m7
Make sure you live all the dreams we produce
G#7G#7
Keep that genius in your brain on the move
C#madd9C#madd9
And to my neighborhood, let the good prevail
C#madd9C#madd9
Make sure them babies and them leaders outta jail
F# minorF#m
Look for salvation when troubles get real
F# minorF#m
'Cause you can't help the world until you help yourself
BB
And I can't blame the hood the day that I was killed
BB
Y'all had to see it, that's the only way to feel
G#m7G#m7
And though my physical won't reap the benefits
G#7G#7
The energy that carry on emits still
C# minorC#m
I want you