Chords for Brother Ali, Self Taught Lyrics Video

_ _ _ I'm home. _ _
[Bb] Uh, yeah.
[Cm] They always ask me,
Ali, what you so angry for, man?
[Bb] Why you always so upset?
I [Cm] tell them, shit, there's a thin [C] line
between anger and [Bb] hunger, my man.
And [Cm] I brought a unicycle
down the middle.
You might catch [Bb] me touching feet down on both [Cm] sides.
Ever since day number [C] one,
it's just me and [Bb] where I'm coming from.
Rights are [Cm] passes and shadows
on the sun.
My people, I stand
[Bb] before you as a man with more true [Cm] shit
than he knows what to do with.
I'll give it all to you long as [Bb] you can promise me this.
When it's time, [Cm] you will call up a fist
like this.
Me and Anthony, we fill
[Bb] all the gaps in and proud of what we made
[Cm] regardless what happens.
Fuck rapping, I sing [Bb] off key.
One thing you should never [Cm] do is dis Ali
because, motherfucker, there ain't
[Bb] nothing rougher than trying to climb from [Cm] the
rung you get strapped under.
I can run through every one of [Bb] your plunders.
Mistake number one is [Cm] that your crew don't love [C] ya.
I take a bullet for the core of [Bb] the
tears when me and my dogs [Cm] out
touring the nation.
I spit with an intensity
you have [Bb] to witness.
Look close,
my blood [Cm] on the back of the teeth.
It's
that religious.
It's what I teach [Bb] my son
how to read the Quran and [Cm] how a party
is fun.
We like cocked up.
Don't get it [Bb] mistaken.
We call
light loud [Cm] when we sit in the basement.
We
sell thought.
It's as real as [Bb] you make it.
Any way you look at [Cm] it, this shit is
a painstaking cop-off.
Don't get it [Bb] mistaken.
We call light
loud [Cm] when we sit in the basement.
We sell
thought.
It's as real as [Bb] you make it.
Any way you look at [Cm] it, this shit is
a painstaking cop-off.
Ring line meets spine.
We bend
your [Bb] girl's spine.
Figure eight status.
[Cm] She got back the state.
The same
old magic will not crack [Bb] the maze.
A lot
changed since we ended up.
[Cm] Pot has been
raised and I'm walking with the hand I was dealt.
[Bb] Live 25 years to experience
[Cm] what Azzurre has felt.
If you cry
three times, I'll eat one.
[Bb] Feed one to the
family.
Stress to [Cm] get invested in my freedom.
I battle through a fart and a shit.
With [Bb] a wrist full of broken toothpicks.
[Cm] Trying to carve out a niche.
You can either
choose the heart or the fist.
[Bb] But you will
connect with me if your path [Cm] ever intersects
with me.
The fire in the eye can never be
held [Bb] back.
It's the same.
Pressure that made
the [Cm] liberty bell crack.
It's the same.
Pressure
that made my brother E sell [Bb] crack.
In the name
of unholy [Cm] rest in peace.
My back
is being watched by the only one
[Bb] on high.
We stride in the party
[Cm] hoods up her thighs.
Broke
is what, but don't give [Bb] a fuck.
Cause I
feel like I could burrow by [Cm] the nuts.
Uh, doctor, don't
get it [Bb] mistaken.
We carve light
loud when [Cm] we sit in the basement.
We
self-taught.
This is real as [Bb] you make it.
Any way you look at it, [Cm] this shit is
amazing.
Doctor, don't
get it [Bb] mistaken.
We carve light
loud when [Cm] we sit in the basement.
We self-taught.
This is real as [Bb] you make it.
Any way you look at it, [Cm] this shit is
amazing. _ Homeboy,
[Bb] understand.
I ain't mad at you.
[Cm] Just got a few things in life
I know how to do and this is one [Bb] of them right here.
_ [Cm] And whatever comes up
comes out.
We don't put our hands
on our [C] mouth.
I stand for what I'm about.
Unknown, but I'm still a [Bb] soldier.
Can't let them go home till [Cm] I win
them over.
My youth was training.
It's very [Bb] clear.
Every year
new city, [Cm] new rules to play with.
New kid in school didn't rule
[Bb] nothing.
To this day I rap like [Cm] I'm
trying to prove something.
Little bit aggressive
when I spit [Bb] a sentence till you get
the message.
[Cm] You couldn't pay me to
quit professing.
Rock 61 [Bb] sold
out shows.
Came from a [Cm] quarter bus to the
62nd.
Shirt sweated full of
work [Bb] ethic.
Been in love with the shit
since [Cm] I first met it.
[C] Climbs stairs
as the first to come, last [Bb] to leave.
Ain't no tricks up our sleeve.
This [Cm] is what we believe.
We like doctor.
Don't get
it [Bb] mistaken.
We carve life out
when [Eb] we sit in the basement.
We self-taught.
This is real as you [Bb] make it.
Any way you look at it, [Cm] this shit is amazing.
Doctor, don't get it
[Bb] mistaken.
We carve life out
when [Cm] we sit in the basement.
We self-taught.
This is real as you [Bb] make it.
Any way
[Cm] you look at it, this shit is amazing. _ _
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