Chords for Earl Sweatshirt and Vince Staples - Inside the Beat - Ep. 1

_ I don't know.
I think of music in weird terms.
_ _ [Gb] _
It's fucking [B] so spastic and fucking weird and kind of perverted.
I'll be off that shit, bro.
Woo!
Yeah, bro!
Cause I've never been the nigga to pepper my steak.
I've never [N] been the one.
_ [Fm] Swag shirt, nigga.
87 rude, top rocking, whipping hoop, these tri boots were all chronic.
Brutus in that booth, double scoop, [Bb] hawk vomit up, sub rocking, thug knocking [N] niggas. _
_ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [F] You can ask anybody that knows me, I hate when it's loud around me.
That shit just gets on my nerves.
[Ebm] I grew up in a very loud place.
[E] _
[Eb] I heard a lot of ambulances, a [E] lot of helicopters, a lot of [Ebm] gunshots.
That never made it to the news.
[B] _
[E] Sounds like confusion.
I'm used [F] to it.
You know, it's like, niggas that live in Kansas get used to tornadoes [Ebm] or whatever the fuck that is. _
Like, I'm a tense [B] person, so to say.
[F] Niggas who know me like, you don't have fun.
Like, nah, I don't got time for that.
I [E] got real old real fast.
_ Rap ain't fun to me.
Like, oh, I rap or whatever.
This shit wasn't fun.
[Bb] I just really gotta feel it.
Like, it has to mean something [E] to me.
Cause I can't make music that doesn't mean anything.
[Db] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [B] _
I met Earl, [C] I think I was 15.
Talked too much, he was too hyper.
But he could rap, so that was cool.
He was one of the first [A] people to really tell me I should take it serious [B] or whatnot.
He's focused.
He doesn't, like, [E] when he's making music, he doesn't play around.
Staring at the computer for hours.
And in the last 10 to 15 minutes of it, that'll be what the beat really sounds like.
[A] _ Oh man, this [Eb] sounds like it's melting.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ [Cm] When I'm producing, I want some fucking weirdo hippie shit.
It's awesome.
I just smoke weed [Db] and like, enjoy the sounds.
_ [Gm] _
_ _ _ Just hearing the same thing for like, [Db] 48 hours.
Oh [Cm] man, so pretty. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] Sounds are fucking, like you can never run out of [Cm] shit. _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] All the applause for the avant-garde.
Going hard till I'm on that yard.
I'm talking way sad.
Hurt they wanna [F] kill me, catch me slipping through the grapevine.
I still can't whine, no.
[B] You know we like to play, guys.
Since Yehi, one nine eleven loaded.
_ One more time.
Loop the beat, I guess, a little bit.
And then we're just gonna let it breathe for a little bit.
And then go back in.
I'm so glad he rapped like this.
He's a freak.
He doesn't breathe.
Yeah, he's a freak, dude.
He has gills.
He's the best rapper, dude.
He takes the shortest amount of time to [Ebm] do the tightest shit.
[B] Yeah, I just like to keep this [F] around when I'm writing shit.
Cause I think he's better than me.
It makes me try really hard.
_ _ If I don't have nothing to say or nothing to talk about,
I ain't gonna have nothing to rap about.
And that might hinder me when I get older, but.
[B] I'm not one of those people that can rap about rapping.
It's never been my shit.
I wish, cause that's the tightest kind to me.
Like the shit that Action Bronson be doing,
the shit that Earl be doing,
that shit is fucking flawless, bro.
That's just not my shit.
That's why them [F] niggas is my friends.
I just wanna get my bread
And talk my shit
Before I end up dead
I got all this blood
Sitting on my hands
I never gave no fuck
So [G] they [F] understand
Why I feel this way
Just found God
And I still [N] don't care
_ [Eb] This is where we grew up.
Niggas got these streets tattooed on they face.
You wanna be the cool nigga,
you wanna be the tough nigga,
this is where you live at.
Being young, you're not gonna get along with niggas
that live certain places.
It's just how they separate you.
That's the reason we got, you know,
ten different fucking middle [Ab] schools
and four high schools.
All the high schools got the gang colors.
You start hanging out with certain niggas.
It's cool, it's fun at [G] first,
but then something gonna happen.
One of your homies, [C] somebody gonna die.
You know, it's not a game no more.
And that's how niggas start dying
and this happened and that happened.
It's funny, you [G] watch shit like Good Times
and all those ghetto ass TV shows.
They say they wanna live by the white people.
White people live [Abm] across the street from me
and [G] they do just as much crazy shit as we did.
So I [F] never really understood that.
Now people say you gotta have hope.
I believe [B] that puts you in a very bad place
if you just expect certain things to happen.
And I never been like that even when I was younger.
I don't depend on hope.
So when I write my music,
it's the same way.
[C] It's no Tupac, like, you know, Dear Mama shit.
My mama just as fucked up as me.
That's what I know about.
So that's what you gonna know about
if you wanna know what I have to say.
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [G] Oh shit, that hurt like a motherfucker.
That's in the beat, my nigga.
Yeah, you gotta punch that.
That's in the beat.
[Cm] Stop yelling at me.
He is the antagonist.
That's his character.
[D] With Vince, if you don't fucking really go in,
like, you're gonna sound so stupid on a song with Vince.
I've seen it [Fm] happen.
He loves having the last verse on a song
that you've already written out
so that there's nothing [C] you can do.
Hey, hey, don't use any of these clips
because this is retarded.
Oh!
[G] Little nigga get flexed up.
You the one beef.
Homie, you next up.
I'm in the front street.
[Cm] I got my chest out.
I got my butt.
_ _ _ No, it's always been [D] fooling around.
It's still fooling around.
I don't know.
The [Db] best shit that I've ever made always
is the shit that takes the least amount of time.
Hey, [G] should I start writing those down
when I come up with them
and just have an album of [Cm] all bars?
Of all one-liners?
No.
Just spit it.
_ That was crazy right there. _
[G] There's niggas that know me
that don't even know I make music still.
But I don't carry myself like, you know,
[Ab] all that, look at me, I'm a rapper shit.
It's like, people, they do what they do
just to be the person that does it
and not because that's really what they strive [E] for.
All you gotta do is have slightly [G] something to say.
Which is why I don't get
why the ego comes with it so [A] easily.
[G] I'm just putting words together.
I'm here to [F] tell the world I'm from Ramona Park
[Cm] Diving in the deep water like I know the [A] sharks
Climbing in the King Dold Eye, [G] deserted crown
They wasn't fucking with you boy, but they heard me now
Me and white boy Mack came to take him back
[Cm] Way back, back when people used to learn from rap
I'm [A] here to show you motherfuckers
what I learned from Pac Slim
Couple [G] rounds in a cliff, down for burning that
[F] Beasts I murdered that
Beef I [G] murdered that
He heard [Cm] the shooter yelling,
nerf before we heard the Mack
[G] _ _ [N] _