JAY-Z - Bam ft. Damian Marley Chords

_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ Trenchtown, as you know, my [F#] family's true runs deep there.
_ That's the place that my father grew up as a young man.
[C#]
Now greetings to the world!
[Cm] _ _ _ [C#] It is a sad thing, I can say.
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
I'm alright, yeah.
The [F#] prophets in the beginning were [C#]
musicians.
They [G#] were poets, [C#] writers,
[N] and that's what we've been tasked with [C#] in this life.
_ [G#m] _ [C#] This shit is [G]
actually kind of [N] humbling, you know?
_ _ [A] _ _ _
[G#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [C#] _
[G#m] _ _ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] It's influenced [B] a lot of what we do.
Like [C#] our whole [B] genre is birthed out of conditions [C#] out of reggae, number one.
It's [G#m] the essence of us [C#] borrowing from [G#m] our ancestors,
but [C#] recreating it and representing it.
It's like [G#m] that's who we are.
That's where we [C#] come from.
[B] We are vessels, right?
[C#]
We're whistles, [D] the wind goes through us.
We make the noise.
_ [E] _ _
_ [A] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [G#m] _
_ [C#m] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [G#m] _
_ [A] _ _ Y [D#]'all be talking crazy out of them IG pictures.
So when you get to hell, you tell them Blanco sent you.
[C#m] I can't take no threats.
I got a set of twins.
Those are just some words you never hear again.
[B] For the final time, you [C#] don't believe these fools.
[B] I've never seen a worker rock [C#] so many jewels.
I've never [B] seen a runner with [C#m] so many cars.
Y'all [G#m] couldn't stop me.
You're not as tough as you say you are.
My advice [N] is just don't be too nice to niggas.
Just set the price, niggas, and live your life, my niggas.
Once upon a time in the project.
Once upon a time in the project.
_ The way the community is built, if you notice how the rooms all surround a courtyard setting,
and that courtyard setting would be where a lot of the music was made.
_ _ _ All of those things kind of encourage that environment of learning [C#] and music and all that stuff.
[B] I was in fight mode, now [C#] it's fuck me, mijo.
[B] I was moving them kilos, [C#] help you move your peoples.
[B] I feel like when I go to [A#m] Africa, I feel like when I go, [G#m] you know, my people.
[Em] [G#m] I love people.
[C#] Emory.
_ [B] What's up?
[C#] _ [G#m] Yo, see me too.
[F#] _
[G#m] Emory passed you niggas and [C#] he did a bid.
[G#m] Tata jumped over niggas, he [C#] like 5'6".
Got [G#m] the heart of a [C#] china.
Don't you ever forget.
Don't you [G#m] never forget.
Jigga [C#m] got your shit poppin'.
[G#m] I pulled out the pot when we [C#] was out of options.
Gangsta no [G#m] live in a tenement yard.
Hood boy no live in a tenement [C#] yard.
Too much watchy, [G#m] watchy, watchy.
Them so, so, so, [A#m] so, so.
Too much chatty, chatty, [G#m] chatty.
And them so, so, so, so, [C#m] so.
Various [G#m] musicians would have to come and audition and try [C#] to get inside the [G#m] doors.
And I'm sure a lot of [C#] them were turned away.
So [G#m] for us to eventually actually [C#m] have ownership of this place is great.
[E] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
[F] _ [G] Dancing right, the Christmas lyrics we knew.
You wrote them, you sound like a crispy biscuit.
You come a jump down on me, so well, well sweet.
So bam, bam, ah.
So what, so [Bm] bam, bam, ah.
In a bam, bam, little missy.
Bam, bam, _ [N]
bam, what's up, bam, bam, ah.
Just freestyle about mom.
[G] Just like that.
I didn't write [G#m] it.
Man, that must feel good, like, to make something so timeless.
Of course. _ _
_ _ [G#] I was asking him about Jam Rocks.
I was asking him, did he know, like, the minute he heard it, did he [G#m] know?
And he said yes.
Did he say yes? _ _
Good music, it will last.
It will [C#m] last.
It ain't gonna go nowhere.
And even if I'm gone where I'm supposed to go,
my daughter's gonna be here and say, that's mommy's bam, bam.
You ain't going nowhere.
_ Powerful, isn't it?
Powerful.
Can't you see it's [G#m] my ambition?
[C#m] I come to nice up [G#m] the whole nation.
[C#m] What a bam, bam, what a [G#m] bam, bam.
I [C#m] don't give a goddamn, I [G#m] don't give a goddamn.
[C#] When me come a dance, I'm a spliff on [C#m] guineas.
Y'all call the people, go and mind your business.
This a hunting season.
[D] When I tell [C#m] you something [G#m] season.
Cake [C#m] and dumpling [G#m] season.
[C#] Spinners and dumplings [G#m] season.
_ [C#] It was really powerful for me when I came here.
This is music I listened to my whole life.
My mom and dad, they [F#m] like collect records,
and they just play [C#m] music all the time.
[F#] Bob was like a major [G#m] boss in our house.
[F#] I turned into a kid [G#m] when I came here.
_ [C#] [G#m] Well, the Tough Gang name definitely exists long [A#] before me.
That was my dad's [B] nickname.
We as a family have [C#m] used it for years.
[B] This is like a great, [C#] you know, a great part [B] of the legacy.
[C#] That song, Full [G#m] Circle, that's how it works, right?
[C#] It's unbelievable.
[G#m] You know, everything that's meant to happen happens.
It's just what it is.
[C#] _ _ [B] _ _ [A#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _ [G#m] _ _ [D#m] _