Chords for It Ain't Easy

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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ I take a [Ab] shot of Hennessy now I'm [Eb] strong enough to face the madness nickel bag full of sesame
lace with hash phone calls from my niggas on the other side two childhood friends just
died I [Ab] couldn't cry a damn [Eb] shame when will we ever change and what [Cm] remains from a 12
gauge to [Ab] the brain [Eb] arguments with my boo is true I spend more time with my niggas than
I do with you but everywhere it's the same thing that's the game I'll be damned if a
thing change fuck the fame I'll be hustling to make a million lord knows ain't no love
for us ghetto children so we go rag top slowing [Bb] down time to [G] stop for [Eb] gas beat my horn for
who she would have brought back it ain't easy that's my model drinking tango rain straight
out the bottle [Ab] everybody wanna know if I'm [Eb] insane my baby mama got a mind full of silly
games and all the drama gum stressing like I'm hopeless I can't quote me and all the smoking
roaches cuz we broke late night hanging out to the [G] sunrise keeping high [Cm] watching the cops roll
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by it ain't easy _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ [Eb] easiest being me well I see the penitentiary or will I [Ab] stay free it [Eb] ain't easy
be [Gm] me well I see the penitentiary [Eb] or will a [Ab] safer it [Eb] ain't easy [Db] bein [Eb] me well I see the penitentiary
or will it stay I can't sleep no me kill me while I'm jamming Wayne to sweaty and screaming cuz I
I can hear them suckers [Ab] screaming, probably paranoid
[Eb] While I'm listening to punks be fantasizing
Her brother bite the bullet, open fire
And I doubt I wonder why, it's just the way it is
She been down, looking out for these skinny kids
This the ground, Bill Clinton, can you recognize a [G] nigga [Eb] representing doing 20 to life?
And saying Quentin getting calls from a nigga Mike Tyson
Ain't nothing nice, yo pop, do something righteous with your life
And even though you innocent, you [Bb] still a nigga
So they [Eb] think I'd rather have you behind bars than triggers
But I'ma hold you down, holla Thug Life
Licking [Gm] shots till I see my niggas [Eb] free on the block
But no it ain't easy
Till I see my niggas free on the block
[Ab] It ain't [Eb] easy _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] It [Eb] ain't easy, me and me
Will I see the penitentiary, or will I [Ab] stay free?
It [Eb] ain't easy, me and me
Will I see the penitentiary, or will I stay free?
It ain't easy, me and me
Will I see the penitentiary?
Lately been reminiscing about Peppermint Snacks
And Junior High hit the block
Keeping eye on the cops while D-Boy slang-locks
It's the Project K [Bb].I.T.T. without a conscience
I'm [G] having dreams [Eb] of hearing screams at my concerts
Me and all my childhood kids
Through the years trying to stack a little green
I was only 17 when I started serving fiends
And I wish it was another way to stack a dollar
So my avala, cause these hard times make me wanna holla
Will I let it see them all?
Am I [Gm] falling off?
I hit the beat and then proceed to say [Eb] fuck all of y'all
Ain't nobody down with me, I'm thuggin'
I can't go home cause [Ab] motherfuckers think I'm [Eb] buggin'
So now I'm in this high-powered cell at the county jail
Funk jams, got a grudge, can't post no bail
What do I do in these county blues?
Getting batted and bruised by the [Eb] you-know-who
And these fakes get shaken when they face me
Snakes ain't got enough nuts to replace me
[Ab] Sitting in this living [Eb] hell
Listening to niggas yell
Trying to torture in the [Eb] tail
I'm getting mail, but ain't nobody saying much
Same old nuts is making bucks while these sluts get [Cm] fucked
It violated [Eb] my probation
And it seems I'll be going on [Ab] a long [Eb] vacation
Meanwhile, it ain't easy _ _ _ _
[Ab] No, it ain't easy
It [Eb] ain't easy being me
Will I see the [Ab] penitentiary or will I stay free?
[Eb] It ain't easy being me
Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free?
It ain't easy being me
Will I see the penitentiary [Ab] or will I stay free?
It [Eb] ain't easy being me
Will I see the penitentiary or will it stay free?
It ain't easy being me.
Will I see the [Ab] penitentiary or will it [Eb] stay free?
It ain't easy being me.
Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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