Chords for Brother Ali - Self Taught

_ I'm home.
[Bb] Uh, yeah.
They [Cm] always ask me,
Ali, what you so angry [Bb] for, man?
Why you always so [Cm] upset?
I tell them, G, there's a thin line
[Bb] between anger and hunger, my man.
[Cm] And I ride a unicycle down the middle.
You [Bb] might catch me
touching feet down on [Cm] both sides.
[C] Ever since day number one,
it's just [Bb] me and where I'm coming from.
Lights of [Cm] pastors and shadows on the sun.
[Bb] My people, I stand before you
as a man with more true shit than he knows
what to do with.
I give it [Bb] all to you
long as you can promise me this.
[Cm] When it's time, you will fall off a fence like this.
Me and [Bb] Anthony, we fill all the gaps
standing proud of [Cm] what we made regardless
what happens.
Fuck rapping,
[Bb] I sing off key.
One thing you should
[Cm] never do is dis Ali, cause
motherfucker, there [Bb] ain't nothing rougher
than trying to climb [Cm] from the rug you get
strapped under.
I [Bb] can run through every
one of your blunders.
Mistake number one
is [C] that your crew don't love ya.
I take a [Bb] bullet for the core of the stairs
when me [Cm] and my dogs out touring
the nation.
I spit with an intensity
[Bb] you have to witness.
Look close,
[Cm] my blood on the back of the teeth.
It's just that
religious.
It's what [Bb] I teach my son
how to read the [Cm] Quran and how a party
is fun.
We like doctor,
don't [Bb] get it mistaken.
We call life
out [Cm] when we sit in the basement.
We
self [Bb] taught.
This is real as you make it.
[Cm] Any way you look at it, this shit is
amazing.
Doctor, [Bb] don't
get it mistaken.
We call [Cm] life out
when we sit in the basement.
We self taught.
[Bb] This is real as you make it.
Any way you [Cm] look at it, this shit [C] is amazing.
When lime meets lime, we [Bb] bend your
girl's spine.
Figure eight [Cm] status,
she got back for safe.
The same old
magic will not crack the maze.
A lot
changed since we ended up.
Pot has been
raised and I'm walking with the [Bb] hand I was dealt.
Live 25 years [Cm] to experience
what Lazarus felt.
If you drop three
crumbs, [Bb] I'll eat one.
Feed one to the family.
[Cm] Rest to get invested in my freedom.
I'll paddle through a bar in a [Bb] shank.
I'm [Cm] _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [Cm] _ a man [Bb] _ _
[C] of my word.
_ [Bb] _ _ [Cm] _
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ [Cm] I'm a man of my word.
I'm [Bb] a man of my word.
I'm a man of my word.
I'm a man of my word.
I'm a man of my word.
Don't get it mistaken.
We call life out
[Cm] when we sit in the basement.
We self taught.
[Bb] This is real as you make it.
[Cm] Any way you look at it, this shit is amazing.
Doctor, [Bb] don't get it mistaken.
We call [Cm] life out when we sit
in the basement.
We self taught.
[Bb] This is real as you make it.
Any way
you [Cm] look at it, this shit is amazing.
Homeboy, [Bb] understand
I ain't mad at [F] you.
Just [Cm] a few things in life I know how to do
and this is one of them right here.
_ [C] And whatever comes [Bb] up, comes out.
We don't put our hands on our mouth.
I [C] stand for what I'm about.
Unknown, [Bb] but I'm still a soldier.
Can't let them go [Cm] home till I win them over.
My youth was draining.
[Bb] It's very clear.
Every year, new [Cm] city, new rules
to play with.
True shit.
New kid in school [Bb] didn't rule nothing.
To this day, I rap [Cm] like I'm trying to prove something.
Little bit [Bb] aggressive when I spit a sentence.
Till [Cm] you get the message.
You couldn't pay me to quit professing.
[Bb] Rock 61, sold out, chose
[Cm] Cape Home and caught a bus to the 62nd.
Shirt's wet and [Bb] full of work ethic.
Been in love with the [Cm] schnitz since I first met it.
Rhyme Sayers is the first to [Bb] come,
last to leave.
Ain't no tricks up our [Cm] sleeve.
This is what we believe.
We like
Doc-Doc.
Don't get [Bb] it mistaken.
We call it Life-Loud when [Cm] we sit in the
basement.
We self-taught.
[Bb] This is real as you make it.
Any [Cm] way you look
at it, this shit is amazing.
Doc-Doc.
[Bb] Don't get it mistaken.
We call it [Cm] Life-Loud when we sit in the
basement.
We self-taught.
This [Bb] is real
as you make [Cm] it.
Any way you look at it,
this shit is amazing.
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