Meet The Grahams chords by Kendrick Lamar

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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   And. Dear Adonis,
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I'm sorry that that man is your father. Let me be honest.

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 It takes a man to be a  man.
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Your dad is not responsive.
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I look at him and wish your grandpa were the world condom.
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I'm sorry that you gotta grow up and then stand behind him.

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Life is hard
I know.
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The challenges always go beat us home.
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Sometimes our parents make mistakes that affect us until we grown.
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Hey, you're a good kid  that need good leadership.
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Let me be your mentor since your daddy don't teach you shit.

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Never  let a man piss on your leg
son. Either you die  right there or pop that man in the head,
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Son Never fall in the escort business, that's bad religion
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  Please remember. You could be a bitch even if you got bitches
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Never cold-switched. Whether right or wrong
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You're a black  man, even if it don't benefit your goals

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Do some push-ups, get some discipline
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Don't cut them Corners like your daddy did, fuck what Ozempic did

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Don't pay to Play with them Brazilian's, get a gym membership
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  Understand, no throwing rocks
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And  hiding hands, that's law
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 Don't be ashamed about who you with,
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That's how he treat your mom
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Don't have a kid  to hide a kid to hide again. Be sure 5% will comprehend  but 95 is  lost
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  Be proud  of who You are. Your strength come from within
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 Lot of superstars that's real
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But your daddy ain't one of them
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And you nothing like him
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You'll carry yourself as king

Can't understand me right now

Just play This when you 18
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Dear Sandra
your son got some habits

I hope you don't undermine
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 Them Especially with all the girls that's hurt inside this climate
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 You're  A woman so you know how it feels to be in alignment
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With emotions hoping a man can see you and not be blinded
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 Dear Dennis, you gave birth to a master manipulator
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 Even using you To prove who he is is a huge favor
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 I think you Should ask for more pap
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erAnd more paper and more more paper
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 I'm blaming you for all
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This gambling addictions psychopaths intuition the man that liked to play victim
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You raised a horrible fucking person the nerve for you
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Dennis Sandra  Sit down what

I'm about to say is heavy now liste
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Your son's  a sick man with sick thoughts,

I think niggas like
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Him should die. Him and
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Weinstein should get fucked up in a cell for the

Rest of their life.
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He hates black women, hyper-sexualize em, put kinks of an info  fetish.
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Grew facial hair because he understood being a bitch just fit him
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Better.  He got sex  offenders on
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OVO that he keep on  a monthly
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Allowance. And a child should never be compromised and he keeping his child
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Around him.And  we gotta raise our daughters knowing there's predators like him lurking.

Fuck a rap battle, he should die so all of these women

Can live with a purpose.
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I've been in this industry 12 years,
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I'ma tell y'all one little
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Secret. It's some weird shit going on and some of these artists be
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Here to police it.
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They be streamlining victims outside of they home  and calling them
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  Tinder.  Then leak videos of themselves to further  push their agendas
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To any woman that be playin' this music, know that you're playin'
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Your sister Or better yet, sellin' your niece

To the weirdos, not
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The good ones Cat whims are gave the truth, so
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I'ma get Mines  The embassy bout to get raided too, it's only a matter

Of time Hey Lil'

Bron, keep the family away
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Hey Curry, keep The family away

To anybody that embody the love for their kids,

Keep the family away
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They lookin' at you too, if you standin'
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By him Keep the family away,
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 I'm  lookin' to shoot through

Any Pervert that lives, keep the family safe
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  Dear baby girl,
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I'm sorry that your father not active inside your
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World. He don't commit to much but it's music, yeah that's for sure.
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 He a narcissist, misogynist, living inside his songs.
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Try to destroy family rather than taking  care of his own.
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Should be teaching you timetables or watching
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Frozen with you.
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 Or at your 11th birthday  singing poems with you.

Instead he being
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Turks  paying for sex and popping perks, examples that
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You don't deserve.
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I wanna tell you that you're loved, you're brave
you're kind, you
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Got a gift to change the world.
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 Can't change your father's mind
cause our children is the  future
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But He lives inside confusion, money's always been illusion

But that's the life
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He's used to, his  father probably didn't claim him neither
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History dude Repeats itself, sometimes it don't need a reason

But I would like
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To say it's not your fault that he's hiding another child

Give Him grace, this the reason

I made Mr. Morale
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So our babies Like you can cope later
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Give you some confidence to go through
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Something, it's hope late
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I never wanna hear you chasing men cause it's felt behavior
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Sitting In  the club with sugar tatties for validation

You need to know
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That love is eternity and trumps all pain
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I tell you who Your father is just play the song when it rains
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Yes he's A hit maker, songwriter, superstar, right?

And a fucking deadbeat that should never save more life
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Meet  the Grams Dear hybrid,
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 I know you probably thinkin'
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I wanted to crash a
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Party But truthfully
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I don't have a hatin' bone in my body
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 There's supposed to be a good exhibition within the game
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  But you Fucked up the moment you called out my family's name
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While you  Had to stoop so low to discredit some decent peopl
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Guess integrity is lost when the metaphor doesn't reach you
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 And I Like to understand, cause your house was  never for a home 37,
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But you showing up as a   7 year old
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 You got gambling
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Problems, drinking problems, pill popping and spending problems
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 Bad with money, whorehouse,
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Soliciting women problems
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Therapy's a lovely start, but
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I suggest Mayawas could

Strip the ego from the botto
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I try to empathize with you, cause
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I know that you ain't
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Been through nothing
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Crave entitlement, but wanna be like so bad that
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It's puzzling No dominance, let's recap moments when you didn't fit in
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No secret handshakes with your friend, no culture cache to binge
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 Just Disrespecting your mother, identities on the fence

Don't know which family would
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Love you, the skin that you living in
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Is compromised and personas

Can't channel your masculine
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Even when standing next to a woman, you
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A body shamerYou go hide them baby mamas, ain't you?

You embarrassed of them.
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That's not right.
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That ain't how mama raised us.

Take that mask off.
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I want to see what's under them achievements.
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  Why believe you?

You never gave us nothing to believe in.
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Because you lied about religious views.
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You lied about your surgery.
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You lied about your accent.

And your past tense, all is perjury.
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You lied about your ghost riders
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You lied about your crew members.

They all pussy. You lied on them.
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I know they all got you in them.
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You lied about your son.
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You lied about your daughter, huh?
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You lied about them other kids that's out there hoping that you
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Come. You lied about the only artist that can offer you some help.
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Fuck a  rap battle.