Chords for Kendrick Lamar - m.A.A.d city (Lyrics)
Tempo:
151.75 bpm
Chords used:
Am
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A
F
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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If pyros and crypts all got along, they'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seems [D#] like the whole city go against [D] me, every time [A] I'm in the street I hear
YAK YAK YAK YAK
Man down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck you, bro, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This mad city I run, my nigga
Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or moon cocaine
This is code a second, plenty Kony yak in major pain
Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain
It was me, El Boogie, Yang Yang, YG, Lucky, ride down Rose France
It got ugly, waving your hand out the window, check yourself
Warriors and cronies, so euphoria, can't slow dance with society
The driver seek the [G] first one to get killed
[Fm] Seen a light [F#m]-skinned nigga [A] with his brains blown out
At the same breakfast, then with the same gout
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that [F#m] he did it
[G] But ever since [G#] that day, I was looking at a different
That was back [A] when I was nine, Joey packed a nine
Pack a stand on every purchase fine, we adapt to crime
Pack a van with four guns at a time, with a sliding door
Fuck your stuff, fuck you shooting for
If you ain't walking up, you fucking punk
Picking up the fucking pomp, picking up you
Suck a sucker, dick a diya
Suck a bunch of wallop, what it's coming from
AKs, ARs, AR, duck
That's what mama said when we was eating every night
Y'all ain't got damn, all hell broke loose
You killed my cousin back in [E] 94, fuck your truce
Now [A] crawl your head in that noose, you wind up dead on the news
Ain't no peace treaty, just peace and peace, you suck who pre-approved
Bodies on top of bodies, IVs on top of IVs
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Aussies
When you hop on that trotty, make sure your color's correct
Make sure your corporate or Debbie calling your mother collect
They say the governor collect all of our taxes except
When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat
You moving backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a tech
Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess Mad City
Stand down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck we know, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This is Mad City, I run, I nigga
If our rules ain't this, all got along
They probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seems like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street, I hear
[N] YAH YAH YAH
[G]
Wake your [C#] punk ass up
It [C] ain't nothing but a cop that died Shit
Real simple and frank
[N] We teach some lessons about the streets Fuck [Am] you Suck ass
[C#] It ain't nothing but a cop that [C]
died Shit
[F] How we do?
Fresh out of school, cause I was a high school grad
Sleeping in the living room with my mama's pad
Reality struck, I seen a white car crash
Hit the light pole, two niggas hopped out on foot and dashed
I said I needed a job, I thought I believed them
Security guard for a month, we ended up leaving
In fact, I got fired cause I was inspired by all of my friends
To stage a robbery the third Saturday [Em] I clocked in
[Am]
Projects tore up, gang signs get thrown up
[C] Cocaine laced in marijuana
And [Dm] they wonder [Am] why I rarely smoke now
Imagine if your first blood had you foaming at the mouth
How straight, [D] tweaked, the [Am] next week and [Dm] we broke even
[Am] I [G] made allegiance and [C] made a promise to [Dm] see you [Am] fleeting
You know [G] the reasons, but [C] still I [F] never know my life
Kid Trick, aka, [Am] cop this human sacrifice
Yeah, cocaine, weed
Niggas [Em] been mixing shit since [Am] the 80's, lo
Sharn, Stakes, Buck, Naked
Dip, make a nigga flip
[E] [A] Cluck heads all up and down the block and shit
One time crooked [Em] as shit, block [A] a nigga in
Alondra, Rosecrafts, Bullets, it's capital
I'm still in the hood, [F] yeah that's cool
The hood took [Am] me [A#] under so I follow [F] the rules
But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood
Where they gang and niggas that rep fellas is doing the same thing
Pass it to the league so I can smoke on me
A couple drive-bys in the hood lately
Couple of IPs with the fuckin' spray can
Shots in the crowd then [Em] everybody ran
[Am] Hood been a slave, street life I crave
Shots at [Dm] the [C] enemy, hearts [B] turn [Am] brave
Mount up, regulators in the whip
Down the boulevard with [E] the pistol [A] grip
We in the hood still, [Am] so [D] don't grab a strap
[C] Cause G is [Dm] so real
Deal with the outcome [C] of [F] strapping the hand
And the burn ten [C] grand's where my mother stand
If I told you I [A] killed that nigga at sixteen
Would you believe me, or see me to [Em] be
Innocent Kendrick you [C] seen in the street
With a [A] basketball and some now ladies to eat
If I'm asking all of my skeletons, would you jump in the sea?
[F] Would you [Bm] say my [A] intelligence now is great relief
And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe [E] can sleep
With dreams of being [A] a lawyer, doctor
Instead of boy with a chopper
They hold the court as their [C] hostage
Kill them all if they gossip
The [F] children of the corn
They vandalizing the option of living a lie
Drive their body with toxins, constantly drinking and drive
Get the party then watch this flame that arrive in his eye
This account with the gossip is aimed at the bank and the slot
Hope that bitch with the positive price on his head
The tides probably go to the projects, ah
Never seen a belly hit the rough, copped a USA
[E] Made me a ass, don't do that
[Am] [C] [F] [Am]
[N]
[D]
[E]
[N]
Seems [D#] like the whole city go against [D] me, every time [A] I'm in the street I hear
YAK YAK YAK YAK
Man down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck you, bro, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This mad city I run, my nigga
Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or moon cocaine
This is code a second, plenty Kony yak in major pain
Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain
It was me, El Boogie, Yang Yang, YG, Lucky, ride down Rose France
It got ugly, waving your hand out the window, check yourself
Warriors and cronies, so euphoria, can't slow dance with society
The driver seek the [G] first one to get killed
[Fm] Seen a light [F#m]-skinned nigga [A] with his brains blown out
At the same breakfast, then with the same gout
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that [F#m] he did it
[G] But ever since [G#] that day, I was looking at a different
That was back [A] when I was nine, Joey packed a nine
Pack a stand on every purchase fine, we adapt to crime
Pack a van with four guns at a time, with a sliding door
Fuck your stuff, fuck you shooting for
If you ain't walking up, you fucking punk
Picking up the fucking pomp, picking up you
Suck a sucker, dick a diya
Suck a bunch of wallop, what it's coming from
AKs, ARs, AR, duck
That's what mama said when we was eating every night
Y'all ain't got damn, all hell broke loose
You killed my cousin back in [E] 94, fuck your truce
Now [A] crawl your head in that noose, you wind up dead on the news
Ain't no peace treaty, just peace and peace, you suck who pre-approved
Bodies on top of bodies, IVs on top of IVs
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Aussies
When you hop on that trotty, make sure your color's correct
Make sure your corporate or Debbie calling your mother collect
They say the governor collect all of our taxes except
When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat
You moving backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a tech
Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess Mad City
Stand down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck we know, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This is Mad City, I run, I nigga
If our rules ain't this, all got along
They probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seems like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street, I hear
[N] YAH YAH YAH
[G]
Wake your [C#] punk ass up
It [C] ain't nothing but a cop that died Shit
Real simple and frank
[N] We teach some lessons about the streets Fuck [Am] you Suck ass
[C#] It ain't nothing but a cop that [C]
died Shit
[F] How we do?
Fresh out of school, cause I was a high school grad
Sleeping in the living room with my mama's pad
Reality struck, I seen a white car crash
Hit the light pole, two niggas hopped out on foot and dashed
I said I needed a job, I thought I believed them
Security guard for a month, we ended up leaving
In fact, I got fired cause I was inspired by all of my friends
To stage a robbery the third Saturday [Em] I clocked in
[Am]
Projects tore up, gang signs get thrown up
[C] Cocaine laced in marijuana
And [Dm] they wonder [Am] why I rarely smoke now
Imagine if your first blood had you foaming at the mouth
How straight, [D] tweaked, the [Am] next week and [Dm] we broke even
[Am] I [G] made allegiance and [C] made a promise to [Dm] see you [Am] fleeting
You know [G] the reasons, but [C] still I [F] never know my life
Kid Trick, aka, [Am] cop this human sacrifice
Yeah, cocaine, weed
Niggas [Em] been mixing shit since [Am] the 80's, lo
Sharn, Stakes, Buck, Naked
Dip, make a nigga flip
[E] [A] Cluck heads all up and down the block and shit
One time crooked [Em] as shit, block [A] a nigga in
Alondra, Rosecrafts, Bullets, it's capital
I'm still in the hood, [F] yeah that's cool
The hood took [Am] me [A#] under so I follow [F] the rules
But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood
Where they gang and niggas that rep fellas is doing the same thing
Pass it to the league so I can smoke on me
A couple drive-bys in the hood lately
Couple of IPs with the fuckin' spray can
Shots in the crowd then [Em] everybody ran
[Am] Hood been a slave, street life I crave
Shots at [Dm] the [C] enemy, hearts [B] turn [Am] brave
Mount up, regulators in the whip
Down the boulevard with [E] the pistol [A] grip
We in the hood still, [Am] so [D] don't grab a strap
[C] Cause G is [Dm] so real
Deal with the outcome [C] of [F] strapping the hand
And the burn ten [C] grand's where my mother stand
If I told you I [A] killed that nigga at sixteen
Would you believe me, or see me to [Em] be
Innocent Kendrick you [C] seen in the street
With a [A] basketball and some now ladies to eat
If I'm asking all of my skeletons, would you jump in the sea?
[F] Would you [Bm] say my [A] intelligence now is great relief
And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe [E] can sleep
With dreams of being [A] a lawyer, doctor
Instead of boy with a chopper
They hold the court as their [C] hostage
Kill them all if they gossip
The [F] children of the corn
They vandalizing the option of living a lie
Drive their body with toxins, constantly drinking and drive
Get the party then watch this flame that arrive in his eye
This account with the gossip is aimed at the bank and the slot
Hope that bitch with the positive price on his head
The tides probably go to the projects, ah
Never seen a belly hit the rough, copped a USA
[E] Made me a ass, don't do that
[Am] [C] [F] [Am]
[N]
[D]
[E]
[N]
Key:
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A
F
E
Am
C
A
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ If pyros and crypts all got along, they'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seems [D#] like the whole city go against [D] me, every time [A] I'm in the street I hear
YAK YAK YAK YAK
Man down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck you, bro, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This mad city I run, my nigga
Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or moon cocaine
This is code a second, plenty Kony yak in major pain
Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain
It was me, El Boogie, Yang Yang, YG, Lucky, ride down Rose France
It got ugly, waving your hand out the window, check yourself
Warriors and cronies, so euphoria, can't slow dance with society
The driver seek the [G] first one to get killed
[Fm] Seen a light [F#m]-skinned nigga [A] with his brains blown out
At the same breakfast, then with the same gout
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that [F#m] he did it
[G] But ever since [G#] that day, I was looking at a different
That was back [A] when I was nine, Joey packed a nine
Pack a stand on every purchase fine, we adapt to crime
Pack a van with four guns at a time, with a sliding door
Fuck your stuff, fuck you shooting for
If you ain't walking up, you fucking punk
Picking up the fucking pomp, picking up you
Suck a sucker, dick a diya
Suck a bunch of wallop, what it's coming from _
AKs, ARs, AR, duck
That's what mama said when we was eating every night
Y'all ain't got damn, all hell broke loose
You killed my cousin back in [E] 94, fuck your truce
Now [A] crawl your head in that noose, you wind up dead on the news
Ain't no peace treaty, just peace and peace, you suck who pre-approved
Bodies on top of bodies, IVs on top of IVs
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Aussies
When you hop on that trotty, make sure your color's correct
Make sure your corporate or Debbie calling your mother collect
They say the governor collect all of our taxes except
When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat
You moving backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a tech
Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess Mad City
Stand down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck we know, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This is Mad City, I run, I nigga
If our rules ain't this, all got along
They probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seems like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street, I hear
[N] YAH YAH YAH
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Wake your [C#] punk ass up
_ It [C] ain't nothing but a cop that died Shit
_ Real simple and frank
[N] We teach some lessons about the streets Fuck _ _ _ [Am] you Suck ass
[C#] It ain't nothing but a cop that [C]
died Shit
_ [F] How we do?
Fresh out of school, cause I was a high school grad
Sleeping in the living room with my mama's pad
Reality struck, I seen a white car crash
Hit the light pole, two niggas hopped out on foot and dashed
I said I needed a job, I thought I believed them
Security guard for a month, we ended up leaving
In fact, I got fired cause I was inspired by all of my friends
To stage a robbery the third Saturday [Em] I clocked in
_ [Am]
Projects tore up, gang signs get thrown up _
[C] Cocaine laced in marijuana
And [Dm] they wonder [Am] why I rarely smoke now
Imagine if your first blood had you foaming at the mouth
How straight, [D] tweaked, the [Am] next week and [Dm] we broke even
[Am] I [G] made allegiance and [C] made a promise to [Dm] see you [Am] fleeting
You know [G] the reasons, but [C] still I [F] never know my life
Kid Trick, aka, [Am] cop this human sacrifice
Yeah, _ _ _ cocaine, weed
_ Niggas [Em] been mixing shit since [Am] the 80's, lo
_ _ Sharn, Stakes, Buck, Naked
_ Dip, make a nigga flip _
[E] _ [A] Cluck heads all up and down the block and shit _
One time crooked [Em] as shit, block [A] a nigga in
_ Alondra, Rosecrafts, Bullets, it's capital
I'm still in the hood, [F] yeah that's cool
The hood took [Am] me [A#] under so I follow [F] the rules
But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood
Where they gang and niggas that rep fellas is doing the same thing
Pass it to the league so I can smoke on me
A couple drive-bys in the hood lately
Couple of IPs with the fuckin' spray can
Shots in the crowd then [Em] everybody ran
[Am] Hood been a slave, street life I crave
Shots at [Dm] the [C] enemy, hearts [B] turn _ [Am] brave
Mount up, regulators in the whip
Down the boulevard with [E] the pistol [A] grip
_ We in the hood still, [Am] so [D] don't grab a strap
[C] Cause G is [Dm] so real
Deal with the outcome [C] of [F] strapping the hand
And the burn ten [C] grand's where my mother stand
If I told you I [A] killed that nigga at sixteen
Would you believe me, or see me to [Em] be
Innocent Kendrick you [C] seen in the street
With a [A] basketball and some now ladies to eat
If I'm asking all of my skeletons, would you jump in the sea?
[F] Would you [Bm] say my [A] intelligence now is great relief
And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe [E] can sleep
With dreams of being [A] a lawyer, doctor
Instead of boy with a chopper
They hold the court as their [C] hostage
Kill them all if they gossip
The [F] children of the corn
They vandalizing the option of living a lie
Drive their body with toxins, constantly drinking and drive
Get the party then watch this flame that arrive in his eye
This account with the gossip is aimed at the bank and the slot
Hope that bitch with the positive price on his head
The tides probably go to the projects, ah
Never seen a belly hit the rough, copped a USA
[E] Made me a ass, don't do that
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ If pyros and crypts all got along, they'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seems [D#] like the whole city go against [D] me, every time [A] I'm in the street I hear
YAK YAK YAK YAK
Man down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck you, bro, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This mad city I run, my nigga
Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or moon cocaine
This is code a second, plenty Kony yak in major pain
Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain
It was me, El Boogie, Yang Yang, YG, Lucky, ride down Rose France
It got ugly, waving your hand out the window, check yourself
Warriors and cronies, so euphoria, can't slow dance with society
The driver seek the [G] first one to get killed
[Fm] Seen a light [F#m]-skinned nigga [A] with his brains blown out
At the same breakfast, then with the same gout
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that [F#m] he did it
[G] But ever since [G#] that day, I was looking at a different
That was back [A] when I was nine, Joey packed a nine
Pack a stand on every purchase fine, we adapt to crime
Pack a van with four guns at a time, with a sliding door
Fuck your stuff, fuck you shooting for
If you ain't walking up, you fucking punk
Picking up the fucking pomp, picking up you
Suck a sucker, dick a diya
Suck a bunch of wallop, what it's coming from _
AKs, ARs, AR, duck
That's what mama said when we was eating every night
Y'all ain't got damn, all hell broke loose
You killed my cousin back in [E] 94, fuck your truce
Now [A] crawl your head in that noose, you wind up dead on the news
Ain't no peace treaty, just peace and peace, you suck who pre-approved
Bodies on top of bodies, IVs on top of IVs
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Aussies
When you hop on that trotty, make sure your color's correct
Make sure your corporate or Debbie calling your mother collect
They say the governor collect all of our taxes except
When we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threat
You moving backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a tech
Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess Mad City
Stand down, where you from, nigga?
Fuck we know, where you from, my nigga?
Where your grandma stay, huh, my nigga?
This is Mad City, I run, I nigga
If our rules ain't this, all got along
They probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seems like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street, I hear
[N] YAH YAH YAH
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Wake your [C#] punk ass up
_ It [C] ain't nothing but a cop that died Shit
_ Real simple and frank
[N] We teach some lessons about the streets Fuck _ _ _ [Am] you Suck ass
[C#] It ain't nothing but a cop that [C]
died Shit
_ [F] How we do?
Fresh out of school, cause I was a high school grad
Sleeping in the living room with my mama's pad
Reality struck, I seen a white car crash
Hit the light pole, two niggas hopped out on foot and dashed
I said I needed a job, I thought I believed them
Security guard for a month, we ended up leaving
In fact, I got fired cause I was inspired by all of my friends
To stage a robbery the third Saturday [Em] I clocked in
_ [Am]
Projects tore up, gang signs get thrown up _
[C] Cocaine laced in marijuana
And [Dm] they wonder [Am] why I rarely smoke now
Imagine if your first blood had you foaming at the mouth
How straight, [D] tweaked, the [Am] next week and [Dm] we broke even
[Am] I [G] made allegiance and [C] made a promise to [Dm] see you [Am] fleeting
You know [G] the reasons, but [C] still I [F] never know my life
Kid Trick, aka, [Am] cop this human sacrifice
Yeah, _ _ _ cocaine, weed
_ Niggas [Em] been mixing shit since [Am] the 80's, lo
_ _ Sharn, Stakes, Buck, Naked
_ Dip, make a nigga flip _
[E] _ [A] Cluck heads all up and down the block and shit _
One time crooked [Em] as shit, block [A] a nigga in
_ Alondra, Rosecrafts, Bullets, it's capital
I'm still in the hood, [F] yeah that's cool
The hood took [Am] me [A#] under so I follow [F] the rules
But yeah that's like me, I grew up in the hood
Where they gang and niggas that rep fellas is doing the same thing
Pass it to the league so I can smoke on me
A couple drive-bys in the hood lately
Couple of IPs with the fuckin' spray can
Shots in the crowd then [Em] everybody ran
[Am] Hood been a slave, street life I crave
Shots at [Dm] the [C] enemy, hearts [B] turn _ [Am] brave
Mount up, regulators in the whip
Down the boulevard with [E] the pistol [A] grip
_ We in the hood still, [Am] so [D] don't grab a strap
[C] Cause G is [Dm] so real
Deal with the outcome [C] of [F] strapping the hand
And the burn ten [C] grand's where my mother stand
If I told you I [A] killed that nigga at sixteen
Would you believe me, or see me to [Em] be
Innocent Kendrick you [C] seen in the street
With a [A] basketball and some now ladies to eat
If I'm asking all of my skeletons, would you jump in the sea?
[F] Would you [Bm] say my [A] intelligence now is great relief
And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe [E] can sleep
With dreams of being [A] a lawyer, doctor
Instead of boy with a chopper
They hold the court as their [C] hostage
Kill them all if they gossip
The [F] children of the corn
They vandalizing the option of living a lie
Drive their body with toxins, constantly drinking and drive
Get the party then watch this flame that arrive in his eye
This account with the gossip is aimed at the bank and the slot
Hope that bitch with the positive price on his head
The tides probably go to the projects, ah
Never seen a belly hit the rough, copped a USA
[E] Made me a ass, don't do that
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