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      [Intro]
Am C Dm Dm
Am C Dm Am
Am C Dm Dm
F  C Dm Am

[Hook]
Am          C             Dm         Dm
   Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
Am       C              Dm         Am
   I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
Am            C                Dm           Dm
   I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
       F          C                 Dm     Am
I will never ever let you live this down, down, down
Am         C                Dm         Dm
   Not for nothing I've foreseen it, I dream it
Am       C              Dm         Am
   I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
Am         C              Dm             Dm
   No more chances if you blow this, you bogus
       F          C                 Dm     Am
I will never ever let you live this down, down, down


[Verse 1]
             Am                 C
Penitentiary chances, the devil dances
               Dm                     Dm
And eventually answers to the call of Autumn
            Am                      C
All of them fallin' for the love of ballin'
                   Dm                            Am
Got caught with 30 rocks, the cop look like Alec Baldwin
              Am                C
Inter century anthems based off inner city tantrums
Dm                         Dm
Based off the way we was branded
           F                         C
Face it, Jerome get more time than Brandon
           Dm                              Am
And at the airport they check all through my bag
                      Am
And tell me that it's random
            C                             Dm
But we stay winning, this week has been a bad massage
         Dm                 Am
I need a happy ending and a new beginning
      C                    Dm                       Am
And a new fitted, and some job opportunities that's lucrative
         Am                 C
This the real world, homie, school finished
          Dm                           Dm
They done stole your dreams, you dunno who did it
            F                      C
I treat the cash the way the government treats AIDS
        Dm                      Am
I won't be satisfied til all my niggas get it, get it?


[Hook]
Am          C             Dm         Dm
   Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
Am       C              Dm         Am
   I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
Am            C                Dm           Dm
   I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
       F          C                 Dm     Am
I will never ever let you live this down, down, down


[Verse 2]
       Am                   C
Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion?
    Dm                       Dm
The soul music of the slaves that the youth is missing
    Am                        C
But this is more than just my road to redemption
        Dm                        Am
Malcolm West had the whole nation standing at attention
   Am                    C
As long as I'm in Polo smiling, they think they got me
    Dm                                 Dm
But they would try to crack me if they ever see a black me
F                            C
   I thought I chose a field where they couldn't sack me
     Dm                      Am
If a nigga ain't shootin' a jump shot, running a track meet
    Am                   C
But this pimp is, at the top of Mount Olympus
Dm                          Dm
Ready for the Worldâs game, this is my Olympics
   Am                        C
We make 'em say ho cause the game is so pimpish
Dm                    Am
   Choke a South Park writer with a fishstick
Am               C
   I insisted to get up offa this dick
Dm                  Dm
   And these drugs, niggas can't resist it
  F                             C
Remind me of when they tried to have Ali enlisted
   Dm                         Am
If I ever wasn't the greatest nigga, I must have missed it!


[Hook]
Am          C             Dm         Dm
   Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
Am       C              Dm         Am
   I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
Am            C                Dm           Dm
   I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
       F          C                 Dm     Am
I will never ever let you live this down, down, down


[Verse 3]
       Am
I need more drinks and less lights
C                      Dm                        Dm
   And that American Apparel girl in just tights
                          Am
She told the director she tryna get in a school
C                              Dm                        Am
   He said: "Take them glasses off and get in the pool!"
                          Am
It's been a while since I watched the tube
             C               Dm                         Dm
Cause like a Crip set, I got way too many blues for any more bad news
      F                    C
I was looking at my resume feeling real fresh today
     Dm                 Am
They rewrite history, I don'€™t believe in yesterday
    Am                       C
And what's a black Beatle anyway, a fucking roach?
Dm                                Dm
   I guess that's why they got me sitting in fucking coach
Am                      C
   My guy said I need a different approach
      Dm                               Am
Cause people is looking at me like I'm sniffing coke
         Am                 C
It's not funny anymore, try different jokes
         Dm                   Dm
Tell 'em hug and kiss my ass, x and o
             F                            C
And kiss the ring while they at it, do my thing while I got it
     Dm                       Am
Play strings for the dramatic ending of that wack shit
Am                     C
Act like I ain't had a belt in two classes
Dm                              Dm
I ain't got it I'm coming after whoever who has it
Am                     C
   I'm coming after whoever. Who has it?
Dm                        Am
   You blowin' up, that's good, fantastic
Am                    C
That y'all, it's like that y'all
        Dm                          Dm
I don't really give a fuck about it at all
          F                         C
Cause the same people that tried to black ball me
        Dm                  Am
Forgot about two things, my black balls


[Hook]
Am          C             Dm         Dm
   Ain't no question if I want it, I need it
Am       C              Dm         Am
   I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
Am            C                Dm           Dm
   I'm on the edge, so why you playing? I'm saying
       F          C                 Dm     Am
I will never ever let you live this down, down, down


[Verse 4]
       Am                      C
I done copped Timb's, lived in lenses, kid
       Dm                         Dm
Armani suits, fresh fruits, Bally boots and Benzes
Am                    C
Counting up, smoking, one cuff
          Dm                    Am
Live as a red Jag, a Louis bag, grabbing a blunt, fuck it
Am                        C
Steam about a hundred and one L's
             Dm                            Dm
Kites off to jails, buying sweats, running up in Stetson
F                    C
Nigga hat game was special
                 Dm                            Am
It matched every black pair of Nikes, throwing dice for decimals
    Am                       C
The older head, bolder head, would train a soldier head
Dm                          Dm
Make sure he right in the field, not a soldier dead
Am            C                      Dm
   That meant code red, bent off the black skunk
           Am
The black dutch, back of the old shed
Am                      C                  Dm
If you canât live, you dying, you give or buy in
                        Dm
Keep it real or keep it moving, keep grinding
     F                 C                    Dm
Keep shining, to every young man, this is a plan
                            Am
Learn from others like your brothers Rae and Kanye


[Chorus]
Am         C                Dm         Dm
   Not for nothing I've foreseen it, I dream it
Am       C              Dm         Am
   I can feel it slowly drifting away from me
Am         C              Dm             Dm
   No more chances if you blow this, you bogus
       F          C                 Dm     Am
I will never ever let you live this down, down, down


[Outro]
Am C Dm Dm
Am C Dm Am
Am C Dm Dm
F  C Dm Am

    

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