Chords for A Tribe Called Quest - Steve Biko (Stir it Up)
Tempo:
95.5 bpm
Chords used:
C#
F#
G
D#
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G] [A#] [G#]
[Dm] [A#] [D#]
Linden [Dm] Boulevard represent, represent,
[F] Zantrop, Paul [D#] Quest represent, represent.
When the mic is in my [Dm] hand, I'm never hesitant.
[C#] My favorite jam back in the day was Eric B.
from President.
[F#] Rude boy from Pobre, step to me, you're over.
[C#] Brothers wanna flex, you're not Max Obre.
[F#] MC short and plastic, there ain't no other.
[C#] Trini born fat like me, your long's grandmother.
[G] Tip and shot, they [F#] all got, like your widow.
Honey, [C#] tell your man to chill, or else you'll be a [G] widow.
Did not you [F#] know that my style's a top dollar?
The [C#] five foot assassin, I can please off his [G] collar.
Hip hop scholar, [F#] since B and E had to adopt.
Gotta [C#] hide amongst the boas, complexion of a hockey puck.
You [F#] better ask somebody on how we flip the script.
Come [C#] to a tribe show and watch the three kids [G] drip, drip.
We just in the [F#] house, represent, represent, [C#] Zantrop.
Paul Quest represent, represent, [G] Zantrop.
No team in love with [F#] style, cause it gets a rev rent.
A [C#] tribe called Quest represent, represent, Zantrop.
Here we [F#] go.
You know that I'm the rebel.
[C#] Going up the wicket like God did the [G] devil.
Smokey like the [F#] grandpa's drawers.
We in like [C#] that.
You're dead like [G] Tesley.
When we coming [F#] through, get tickets to see me.
[B] We work for the [C#] people so they'll never be [G] a preemie.
Lyrics are [F#] abundant cause we got it by the mask.
Man, he goes on [C#] an idol cause the music is [G] the task.
Daz Miller on [F#] the pitch, curveball.
I [C#] think I got it.
Just smooth while I'm at you.
Right.
[F#] Now I must move with the witness.
[C#] Here comes Shaheen, so we must hear [D#m] the witness.
Stir it up, [G] stir [A#m] it up, [B] stir it [G] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
[D#]
Stir it up, [G] stir [A#m] it [B] up, stir it [A#] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
[D#]
New York [F#] City represent, represent.
A tribe called [C#] Quest represent, [G] represent, Zant.
The door designed [F#] to be with the style, hot [Bm] and vent.
A tribe [C#] called Quest represent, represent, Zant.
MC's like [F#] to meddle, but here's my proposition.
[C#] I let my lyrics flow and don't your whole position.
I'm rattled [F#] with this like a man is strongest.
So, that's the tip.
[C#] Settle down, what's the reason for the laughing?
I really [F#] am, sir, I guess I'll have to keep with crying.
[B] So much [C#] going on, people killing, people dying.
But I won't [F#] dwell on that, I think I'll elevate my mental.
[C#] Thanks for these bars on the fecal instrumental.
Yo, I'll [F#] take it back, I'm the Indian giver.
MC's [C#] take notes as I stand and deliver.
Percussion [F#] is a mess, these [D] were the best.
Why the [C#] dodging bullets?
You should be dodging Quest.
Don't get [F#] me wrong, violence is not a forte.
I just [C#] like the rhyme, kick the lyrics, feels like relay.
Tip [F#] educator, my rhymes are sickly.
Trap, we got a villain [C#] with the fantasies
and I look out like that's.
[B] Okay, I am recognizing that the voices
out my head is urging me to be myself
and never follow someone else
because opinions are like voices.
We all have a different counsel.
Just clean out all [C#] of your ears.
These are my views and you will find
that we [F#] revolutionize over the kicks and the snare.
[Dm] The ghetto [C#] vocalist is on a statewide tear.
Soon to [F#] be the continent and then the freaking globe.
This room [C#] full of it all as we mingle at the ball.
We're up in [F#] competition
because it doesn't make one of us [D#] a war.
We [C#] gotta work hard, you know the damn part.
Try to [F#] be the baddest is the level that we strive.
Try to [C#] be the baddest or sold to stay alive.
[Dm] [A#] [D#]
Linden [Dm] Boulevard represent, represent,
[F] Zantrop, Paul [D#] Quest represent, represent.
When the mic is in my [Dm] hand, I'm never hesitant.
[C#] My favorite jam back in the day was Eric B.
from President.
[F#] Rude boy from Pobre, step to me, you're over.
[C#] Brothers wanna flex, you're not Max Obre.
[F#] MC short and plastic, there ain't no other.
[C#] Trini born fat like me, your long's grandmother.
[G] Tip and shot, they [F#] all got, like your widow.
Honey, [C#] tell your man to chill, or else you'll be a [G] widow.
Did not you [F#] know that my style's a top dollar?
The [C#] five foot assassin, I can please off his [G] collar.
Hip hop scholar, [F#] since B and E had to adopt.
Gotta [C#] hide amongst the boas, complexion of a hockey puck.
You [F#] better ask somebody on how we flip the script.
Come [C#] to a tribe show and watch the three kids [G] drip, drip.
We just in the [F#] house, represent, represent, [C#] Zantrop.
Paul Quest represent, represent, [G] Zantrop.
No team in love with [F#] style, cause it gets a rev rent.
A [C#] tribe called Quest represent, represent, Zantrop.
Here we [F#] go.
You know that I'm the rebel.
[C#] Going up the wicket like God did the [G] devil.
Smokey like the [F#] grandpa's drawers.
We in like [C#] that.
You're dead like [G] Tesley.
When we coming [F#] through, get tickets to see me.
[B] We work for the [C#] people so they'll never be [G] a preemie.
Lyrics are [F#] abundant cause we got it by the mask.
Man, he goes on [C#] an idol cause the music is [G] the task.
Daz Miller on [F#] the pitch, curveball.
I [C#] think I got it.
Just smooth while I'm at you.
Right.
[F#] Now I must move with the witness.
[C#] Here comes Shaheen, so we must hear [D#m] the witness.
Stir it up, [G] stir [A#m] it up, [B] stir it [G] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
[D#]
Stir it up, [G] stir [A#m] it [B] up, stir it [A#] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
[D#]
New York [F#] City represent, represent.
A tribe called [C#] Quest represent, [G] represent, Zant.
The door designed [F#] to be with the style, hot [Bm] and vent.
A tribe [C#] called Quest represent, represent, Zant.
MC's like [F#] to meddle, but here's my proposition.
[C#] I let my lyrics flow and don't your whole position.
I'm rattled [F#] with this like a man is strongest.
So, that's the tip.
[C#] Settle down, what's the reason for the laughing?
I really [F#] am, sir, I guess I'll have to keep with crying.
[B] So much [C#] going on, people killing, people dying.
But I won't [F#] dwell on that, I think I'll elevate my mental.
[C#] Thanks for these bars on the fecal instrumental.
Yo, I'll [F#] take it back, I'm the Indian giver.
MC's [C#] take notes as I stand and deliver.
Percussion [F#] is a mess, these [D] were the best.
Why the [C#] dodging bullets?
You should be dodging Quest.
Don't get [F#] me wrong, violence is not a forte.
I just [C#] like the rhyme, kick the lyrics, feels like relay.
Tip [F#] educator, my rhymes are sickly.
Trap, we got a villain [C#] with the fantasies
and I look out like that's.
[B] Okay, I am recognizing that the voices
out my head is urging me to be myself
and never follow someone else
because opinions are like voices.
We all have a different counsel.
Just clean out all [C#] of your ears.
These are my views and you will find
that we [F#] revolutionize over the kicks and the snare.
[Dm] The ghetto [C#] vocalist is on a statewide tear.
Soon to [F#] be the continent and then the freaking globe.
This room [C#] full of it all as we mingle at the ball.
We're up in [F#] competition
because it doesn't make one of us [D#] a war.
We [C#] gotta work hard, you know the damn part.
Try to [F#] be the baddest is the level that we strive.
Try to [C#] be the baddest or sold to stay alive.
Key:
C#
F#
G
D#
B
C#
F#
G
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_ _ [Dm] _ _ [A#] _ _ [D#] _ _
Linden [Dm] Boulevard represent, represent,
[F] Zantrop, Paul [D#] Quest represent, represent.
When the mic is in my [Dm] hand, I'm never hesitant.
[C#] My favorite jam back in the day was Eric B.
from President.
[F#] Rude boy from Pobre, step to me, you're over.
[C#] Brothers wanna flex, you're not Max Obre.
[F#] MC short and plastic, there ain't no other.
[C#] Trini born fat like me, your long's grandmother.
[G] Tip and shot, they [F#] all got, like your widow.
Honey, [C#] tell your man to chill, or else you'll be a [G] widow.
Did not you [F#] know that my style's a top dollar?
The [C#] five foot assassin, I can please off his [G] collar.
Hip hop scholar, [F#] since B and E had to adopt.
Gotta [C#] hide amongst the boas, complexion of a hockey puck.
You [F#] better ask somebody on how we flip the script.
Come [C#] to a tribe show and watch the three kids [G] drip, drip.
We just in the [F#] house, represent, represent, [C#] Zantrop.
Paul Quest represent, represent, [G] Zantrop.
No team in love with [F#] style, cause it gets a rev rent.
A [C#] tribe called Quest represent, represent, Zantrop.
Here we [F#] go.
You know that I'm the rebel.
[C#] Going up the wicket like God did the [G] devil.
Smokey like the [F#] grandpa's drawers.
We in like [C#] that.
You're dead like [G] Tesley.
When we coming [F#] through, get tickets to see me.
[B] We work for the [C#] people so they'll never be [G] a preemie.
Lyrics are [F#] abundant cause we got it by the mask.
Man, he goes on [C#] an idol cause the music is [G] the task.
Daz Miller on [F#] the pitch, curveball.
I [C#] think I got it.
Just smooth while I'm at you.
Right.
[F#] Now I must move with the witness.
[C#] Here comes Shaheen, so we must hear [D#m] the witness.
Stir it up, [G] stir _ [A#m] it up, [B] stir it [G] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
_ [D#] _
Stir it up, [G] _ stir [A#m] it [B] up, stir it [A#] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
_ [D#] _
New York [F#] City represent, represent.
A tribe called [C#] Quest represent, [G] represent, Zant.
The door designed [F#] to be with the style, hot [Bm] and vent.
A tribe [C#] called Quest represent, represent, Zant.
MC's like [F#] to meddle, but here's my proposition.
[C#] I let my lyrics flow and don't your whole position.
I'm rattled [F#] with this like a man is strongest.
So, that's the tip.
[C#] Settle down, what's the reason for the laughing?
I really [F#] am, sir, I guess I'll have to keep with crying.
[B] So much [C#] going on, people killing, people dying.
But I won't [F#] dwell on that, I think I'll elevate my mental.
[C#] Thanks for these bars on the fecal instrumental.
Yo, I'll [F#] take it back, I'm the Indian giver.
MC's [C#] take notes as I stand and deliver.
Percussion [F#] is a mess, these [D] were the best.
Why the [C#] dodging bullets?
You should be dodging Quest.
Don't get [F#] me wrong, violence is not a forte.
I just [C#] like the rhyme, kick the lyrics, feels like relay.
Tip [F#] educator, my rhymes are sickly.
Trap, we got a villain [C#] with the fantasies
and I look out like that's.
[B] Okay, I am recognizing that the voices
out my head is urging me to be myself
and never follow someone else
because opinions are like voices.
We all have a different counsel.
Just clean out all [C#] of your ears.
These are my views and you will find
that we [F#] revolutionize over the kicks and the snare.
[Dm] The ghetto [C#] vocalist is on a statewide tear.
Soon to [F#] be the continent and then the freaking globe.
This room [C#] full of it all as we mingle at the ball.
We're up in [F#] competition
because it doesn't make one of us [D#] a war.
We [C#] gotta work hard, you know the damn part.
Try to [F#] be the baddest is the level that we strive.
Try to [C#] be the baddest or sold to stay alive. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Linden [Dm] Boulevard represent, represent,
[F] Zantrop, Paul [D#] Quest represent, represent.
When the mic is in my [Dm] hand, I'm never hesitant.
[C#] My favorite jam back in the day was Eric B.
from President.
[F#] Rude boy from Pobre, step to me, you're over.
[C#] Brothers wanna flex, you're not Max Obre.
[F#] MC short and plastic, there ain't no other.
[C#] Trini born fat like me, your long's grandmother.
[G] Tip and shot, they [F#] all got, like your widow.
Honey, [C#] tell your man to chill, or else you'll be a [G] widow.
Did not you [F#] know that my style's a top dollar?
The [C#] five foot assassin, I can please off his [G] collar.
Hip hop scholar, [F#] since B and E had to adopt.
Gotta [C#] hide amongst the boas, complexion of a hockey puck.
You [F#] better ask somebody on how we flip the script.
Come [C#] to a tribe show and watch the three kids [G] drip, drip.
We just in the [F#] house, represent, represent, [C#] Zantrop.
Paul Quest represent, represent, [G] Zantrop.
No team in love with [F#] style, cause it gets a rev rent.
A [C#] tribe called Quest represent, represent, Zantrop.
Here we [F#] go.
You know that I'm the rebel.
[C#] Going up the wicket like God did the [G] devil.
Smokey like the [F#] grandpa's drawers.
We in like [C#] that.
You're dead like [G] Tesley.
When we coming [F#] through, get tickets to see me.
[B] We work for the [C#] people so they'll never be [G] a preemie.
Lyrics are [F#] abundant cause we got it by the mask.
Man, he goes on [C#] an idol cause the music is [G] the task.
Daz Miller on [F#] the pitch, curveball.
I [C#] think I got it.
Just smooth while I'm at you.
Right.
[F#] Now I must move with the witness.
[C#] Here comes Shaheen, so we must hear [D#m] the witness.
Stir it up, [G] stir _ [A#m] it up, [B] stir it [G] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
_ [D#] _
Stir it up, [G] _ stir [A#m] it [B] up, stir it [A#] up.
It's [C#] the E.T.
_ [D#] _
New York [F#] City represent, represent.
A tribe called [C#] Quest represent, [G] represent, Zant.
The door designed [F#] to be with the style, hot [Bm] and vent.
A tribe [C#] called Quest represent, represent, Zant.
MC's like [F#] to meddle, but here's my proposition.
[C#] I let my lyrics flow and don't your whole position.
I'm rattled [F#] with this like a man is strongest.
So, that's the tip.
[C#] Settle down, what's the reason for the laughing?
I really [F#] am, sir, I guess I'll have to keep with crying.
[B] So much [C#] going on, people killing, people dying.
But I won't [F#] dwell on that, I think I'll elevate my mental.
[C#] Thanks for these bars on the fecal instrumental.
Yo, I'll [F#] take it back, I'm the Indian giver.
MC's [C#] take notes as I stand and deliver.
Percussion [F#] is a mess, these [D] were the best.
Why the [C#] dodging bullets?
You should be dodging Quest.
Don't get [F#] me wrong, violence is not a forte.
I just [C#] like the rhyme, kick the lyrics, feels like relay.
Tip [F#] educator, my rhymes are sickly.
Trap, we got a villain [C#] with the fantasies
and I look out like that's.
[B] Okay, I am recognizing that the voices
out my head is urging me to be myself
and never follow someone else
because opinions are like voices.
We all have a different counsel.
Just clean out all [C#] of your ears.
These are my views and you will find
that we [F#] revolutionize over the kicks and the snare.
[Dm] The ghetto [C#] vocalist is on a statewide tear.
Soon to [F#] be the continent and then the freaking globe.
This room [C#] full of it all as we mingle at the ball.
We're up in [F#] competition
because it doesn't make one of us [D#] a war.
We [C#] gotta work hard, you know the damn part.
Try to [F#] be the baddest is the level that we strive.
Try to [C#] be the baddest or sold to stay alive. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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