Chords for Message To The Messengers

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_ [C] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [C] _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Hey yeah, we're the same [C] brothers from a long time ago.
We was talking [Gb] about television and doing it on the radio. _
What we did was to help our [Bb] generation realize they got to get out there and get busy [C] because
it wasn't going to be televised.
[Gb] You got [C] to respect for your rappers and the way they freeway in.
If you're going to be [Bb] teaching folks things, be sure you know what you're saying.
[C] All the folks in our neighborhood got [Gb] plenty of know-how.
[Db] Remember, if it [Bb] wasn't for them, [C] you wouldn't be out there now.
[Bb] I ain't coming at you with no disrespect.
All I'm saying is that you [C] damn well got to be correct.
[Gb] Because if you're going to [C] be speaking [Bb] for a whole generation [C] and you know enough to
try and handle [Bb] their education, be sure you know the real deal [C] about past situations.
It ain't [Gb] just repeating what you heard [C] on a local [Bb] TV station.
[C] Sometimes they tell lies and put [Bb] them in a truth-putting guide.
[G] But the truth is, that's [C] why we said it wouldn't be televised.
[Gb] They don't know what [C] to say to our young folks, but they know that you do.
If [Bb] they really knew the truth, why would they tell you?
[C] The first sign is peace.
Tell [Gb] all them gun-toting young [C] brothers that the [Bb] man is glad to see us out [C] there killing one another.
We raised [Bb] too much hell when they were [G] shooting us down, so they started [C] poisoning our minds
and trying to [Ebm] jerk us all around.
[C] _ [Bb]
And then they tell [C] us they got to come in and console our [Bb] situation.
They want half of us on dope and the other half [C] in incarceration.
If the [Gb] ones they want dead ain't killed [C] by what they [Bb] instigated,
they can [C] put some dope on the brother's body and claim [Bb] it was drug-related. _
Tell them drug [C]-related means there don't need to be no [Gb] investigation,
or at least that's the way [C] they're going to play [Bb] it on the local TV [C] station.
All you [Bb] 9mm brothers, give them something to think about.
[C] Tell them you heard that this is the [N] new word. _ _ _
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