Tonart: D minor
Verse 1
G#m
Everybody knows in the
studio we're chilling.
Who's the engineer?
What's his name, yo?
Killin'.
You must try.
C#m
G#m
F#m
Check it out as we flow it.
E
D#
G#m
C#m
G#m
F#m
E
D#
G#m
I'm putting food on the table,
D#
G#m
MC's come, so many
E
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They couldn't rock the mics,
G#m
still they tried to do a show
C#m
G#m
But over the years I've
progressed and grown
F#m
E
D#
Tryna say you helped me out,
G#m
kid I did it on my own
C#m
G#m
Yo how I'm gonna keep you open
F#m
for the next few minutes
E
D#
I got something on my mind
G#m
so people let's get in it
C#m
G#m
Since way back in the day back then
F#m
E
D#
Flippin' lyrical, as a kid knows nothing
G#m
C#m
Not even spiritual, no dir ection
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G#m
F#m
Dark complexion, always broke,
E
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G#m
no joke I tried to spark cigarettes, but couldn't smoke
G#m
F#m
AJC, didn't parade in other areas
E
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G#m
Took a long time for all these peeps
to take me serious
C#m
G#m
Hip -hop from special ed, 2K,
F#m
RSDs,
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MCs could hold a mic
G#m
Same way I wish I fleshed,
C#m
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try rhyming with my brother
G#m
F#m
Ain't nothing but dream
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G#m
But this world ain't what it all seems
C#m
Early teens, still rhyming,
G#m
F#m
but what will it amount to?
E
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Sometimes you stand up,
G#m
no one wants to count you
C#m
G#m
I used to wish I was a twin,
E
G#m
Cause then I wouldn't feel I was on my own,
where is bone?
G#m
F#m
tryna live my life the way I wanna live it
E
D#
G#m
Making ill music, answer y 'all,
I wanna give it
C#m
G#m
So these records get made,
F#m
regardless of the labels
E
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No matter what it takes,
G#m
I'm putting food on the table
D#
G#m
MC's come, so many
E
D#
They couldn't rock the mic
G#m
still, they tried to do a show
C#m
D#
G#m
But over the years I've pro
gressed and grown
F#m
E
D#
Trying to say you helped me out kid,
G#m
I did it on my own
C#m
G#m
Hip -hop is indispensable,
F#m
E
I've always something sensible to say
D#
G#m
But it wasn't like that back in the day
C#m
G#m
I used to think hip -hop was
about getting props
F#m
E
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Earning money, mad fame,
G#m
and climbing to the top
C#m
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But rappers got a choice,
G#m
F#m
God bless me with a voice for me
E
D#
G#m
To demonstrate, reach out,
C#m
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and educate all these people like me
G#m
When I was younger,
F#m
E
always had my own views
D#
G#m
Never stopped to wonder about
C#m
G#m
any other perspective
F#m
My only objective was to
E
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be the damn hardest
G#m
And do this regardless
C#m
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And now I got my vision
G#m
F#m
I know who I be
D#
G#m
But I speak in telligently
C#m
G#m
Ayo, I gots to make dough
And live my life
F#m
E
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I wanna have the best for my kids
G#m
And take care of my wife
C#m
When that time comes
D#
G#m
F#m
I can't be living alone
E
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It's painful when you feel
G#m
you're on your own
World is boring
C#m
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I'm on my own trying to live my life
G#m
F#m
The way I wanna live it
E
D#
G#m
Making ill music and to y
'all I wanna give it
C#m
G#m
So these records get made,
F#m
regardless of the labels
E
D#
No matter what it takes,
G#m
I'm putting food on the table
D#
G#m
MC's come, so many
E
D#
They couldn't rock the mics
G#m
till they tried to do a show
C#m
D#
G#m
But over the years I've pro
gressed and grown
F#m
E
D#
Tryna say you helped me out,
G#m
kid I did it on my own
C#m
D#
I recall these people bad
F#m
E
But they the ones who run to the
D#
G#m
store when concerts drop the album
C#m
D#
G#m
Never did I know I'd come this far
F#m
E
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But like any other young kid
G#m
I also wished on a star
C#m
G#m
Now I'm par with my
DJ
ST
F#m
E
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G#m
Knew each other since 82, 83
No
C#m
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G#m
F#m
PhD, no uni degrees
E
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But when it comes from the soul
G#m
Yo, can we please
C#m
G#m
Was a boy, now a man
F#m
Was old, now older
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G#m
C#m
with a good head on my shoulders, y 'all
D#
G#m
F#m
I ain't a king, but I sit on my throne
E
D#
G#m
C#m
G#m
I'm on my own tryna live my life
F#m
the way I wanna live it
E
D#
G#m
Making ill music and to y
I wanna give it
C#m
D#
So these records get made,
G#m
F#m
regardless of the labels
E
D#
No matter what it takes,
G#m
I'm putting food on the table
D#
G#m
MCs, so many
E
D#
They couldn't rock the mic,
to do a show
C#m
D#
G#m
But over the years I've pro
E
D#
Tryna say you help me out,
G#m
kid I did it on my own
C#m
D#
And I'm on my own trying to live
G#m
F#m
my life the way I want to live it
E
D#
G#m
Cause we making ill music and to y 'all
C#m
G#m
I want to give this song to...
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