Chords for It's Been A Long Time

_ [A] Its been a long _ _ [G#] _ _
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_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [G#] time_ _
_ [C#m] It's been a long time, rocking the microphone [B] solo, [F#m] follow procedures, the crowd couldn't
wait to see [G#] this, nobody been [C#m] this long or waited since Jesus, who wouldn't believe
this, I heard the word on the street is, I'm still one of the deepest on the mic since
Adidas, [F#m] they said I changed the times from the rhymes that I thought [G#] of, so I [F#] made some
more [C#m] to put the new world in order, with mathematics, put your status above the average, and help
you rappers make paragraphs with [F#m] graphics, with new days dawning, new ways of [G#] performing,
brainstorming, I write [C#m] and watch the night turn to morning, on and on and, I got the
whole world responding, rock I keep it hot, blow the spot without [F#m] warning, the emperor,
well known for, [G#] inventing a sentence, full of [C#m] adventure, turning up the temperature,
rust with adrenaline, how long has it been again to be [F#m] in the state of mind that Rakim is in?
It's been a long time, [G#] rocking the [C#m] microphone solo, it's been a long time, _ _ rocking the
[F#m] microphone solo, when I'm out rapping, either hanging or [G#] shopping, people see me stopping,
ask me when the album [C#m] dropping, the wait is over, in formation like a soldier, like I
told you, greater, [F#m] stronger, not at all older, I broke the code of silence, with overloads
of talent, [G#] my only challenge, [C#m] is not to explode in balance, I'm Asiatic, in blazing microphones
I haven't at least once, during the [F#m] course of a day, it's automatic, in ghetto apparel,
mind of a Egyptian [G#] pharaoh, far from shallow, thoughts travel like an arrow, [C#m] a law is monotony,
so far they can't stop me, you know, raw on property, like Omar [F#m] Gaddafi, more thoughts
than bible, recitals, taught [G#] disciples, a sword off mic, so words scatter [C#m] like a rifle,
thoughts just trifle, I'm busting these for you, ayo, technical, [G] difficult, Jesus, though,
[A] it's been a long time, [G#] rocking the microphone solo, it's [C#m] been a long time, rocking the
microphone [A] solo, it's been a long time, [G#] rocking the [C#m] microphone solo, it's been a long time,
it's been a long [C] time, [F#m] when I float at night, I show them new heights, I go to right, [G#] they
know I strike with [C#m] prototypes, to blow the mic, hoodies and binders, don't know where
my source of light is, still leave orphans and writers [F#m] with arthritis, curse kids like
the pyramids when they found the [G#] style, first to ever let a rhyme flow down the [C#m] now, the
revert written pop will be dropped now, cause the crowd didn't hear the original when the
[F#m] wow, so be alarmed, what you bout to see is a bomb, [G#] like 3D and arm, vivid like CD [C#m]-ROM,
info kept like internet.com, my notebooks, my bond like the holy [A] Quran, since I came
in the door, said it before, [G#] but no [C#m] I ain't down with Eric B.
no more, at night the open
mic be inviting me to rhyme, so yo I'm online, [G] it's been a long [A] time, it's been a long time,
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[C#m] _ it's been a long time, it's been a long time, rocking the [B] microphone solo, [F#m] it's been a long
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[E] time, it's been [C#m] a long time, it's been a long time, [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ it's been a long time, it's been a long
time, [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _
_ [C#m] it's been a long [C] time, [C#m] it's been a long time, it's been [F#m] a long time, _ _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _