Chords for My Block (Nitty Remix)

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[Abm] I'm running like a son of a bitch
We [Ebm] have people at bat, in the [E] class running to the east of the runway
East of the runway, we have four people, [Abm] five people, honey
[Ebm] East of the runway
[B] Take a ride to my block
Army in the [Abm] skirt, clear down That's [Ebm] right Go!
_ [E] _ [B] Hey got a [Abm] nigga, shedding tears, [Ebm] reminiscing on my past [B] fears
Cause shit was hectic for [Gb] me last year
It [Abm] appears that I've been marked for [Ebm] death
My heart, my breast, [B] the underlying cause of my arrest
My life is [Abm] stressed, and no rest forever [Ebm] weary
My eyes stay [B] teary for all the brothers that I've lost
And I'm buried in the cemetery
[Abm] Shit is scary, I'm [Ebm] black on black, crime legendary
[B] But at times [Gb] unnecessary
I'm dripping blood, [Abm] tear drops in [Ebm] closed caskets
The police strikes, [B] laws drastic
In [Gb] certain death, for us ghetto [Abm] bastards
What can we do when we're [Ebm] arrested?
But don't be [E] focked, life in the pen ain't [B] for me
Cause I'd rather [Abm] die, but don't cry through [Ebm] your despair
I wonder if [B] the lord still cares for us niggas
Or won't [Abm] fear
And who cares if we [Ebm] survive?
The only [E] time he notice a nigga
Is when he's clutching on a [Abm] .45
My neighborhood [Ebm] ain't the same
Cause all the [B] lil babies going crazy
Or they suffering in the [Abm] game
And I swear it's [Ebm] like a trap
But I ain't [E] giving up on the hood
It's all good when I go [Abm] back
Hoes show me [Ebm] love, niggas give me [E] props
Forever hot cause it don't stop
Oh [Abm] my block
Living [Ebm] life is but [E] a dream
Hard times [Abm] is all we see
Every [Ebm] block is kinda [E] mean
But [Gb] on our block we still play
[Abm] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ [E] _ [B] That shit is constantly hot
On my block, it never fails to be gunshots
Can't explain a [Gb] mother's pain
When her son [Ab] drops
[Ebm] Black males living in hell, when will we [B] prevail?
Fear in jail, but crack sales got me living [Abm] well
In a sense I'm [Ebm] suicidal
With this thug's [B] life
Staying strapped [Gb] forever trapped in this drug [Abm] life
God help me [Ebm] cause I'm starved
And can't get a [B] job, so I resent the [Gb] violent robbers
My life is [Abm] hard, can't sleep
[Ebm] Cause all the dirt make my heart [B] hurt
Wouldn't work to shed tears for my dead [Ab] peers
Misled from [Ebm] childhood where I went [B] astray
To this day I still pray for a better [Ab] way
Can't help but [Ebm] feel hopeless and heart [B] broke
From the start I [Gb] felt the racism cause I'm [Abm] dark
Couldn't quit the [Ebm] bullshit make me [B] represent
Hit the bar, played the star everywhere I [Abm] went
In my heart I [Ebm] felt alone, now here on my [B] own
I close my eyes [Ab] and picture home
On my block
Living [Ebm] life is but [E] a dream
[B] Hard times is all [Abm] we see
[Ebm] Every block is kinda [E] mean
But on our block we still play
That shit is constantly hot
[Gb] But on our block we still [Abm] play
_ [Ebm] _ _ [E] _ [B] And I can never [Abm] wonder why
[G] So many young kids had [E] to die
Caught strays [B] from AKs in the [Abm] drive-by
Swollen pride [Ebm] and homicide
Don't go [E] inside, brothers cry
[B] For broken lives, mama come [Abm] inside
Cause our block [Ebm] is filled with danger
Used [B] to be a close knit community
But now it all grows [Abm] strange
As time [Ebm] changes us to stone and [B] crackpipes
All up and down [Gb] the block exterminating [Abm] black life
But I can't [Ebm] blame the dealers
My [B] mama's welfare check
Has bought the next man [Ab] chrome wheels
Shit's real [Ebm] I know you feel my [B] tragedy
A single mother with a problem child act [Abm] free
Hanging out, [Ebm] picking up games
Sipping [B] cheap liquor
Gaming the [Gb] hoochies open I can get to [Abm] sleep
With her, it's a [Ebm] man's world
Staying [B] strapped, fantasies of a nigga living fat
Put [Abm] hell back, pipe dreams
[Ebm] Can make the night seem [B] hopeless
Wide-eyed and losing focus
[Abm] On my block
[Ebm] Living like this blood [E] read
[B] Fart towns is on me
And my [Abm] block, fucked [Ebm] all of hers
And [E] first piece of pussy
than I [Gb] got in 112 streets, [Abm] OK
My motherfuckin block
[E] _ [B] And block [Abm] parties in the projects
[B] Lasting the way past daylight
A young nigga learned to break
I [Abm] used to play fight with my [Ebm] homies
But they're stuck in the [E] pen, they'll send them pins
But it's tougher when they're friends
In my [Abm] mind, I see the same [Ebm] motherfuckers balling
Alcohol [B] will make the lazy niggas [Gb] slip and fall
Mrs.
[Abm] Carl, I know the young niggas [Ebm] understand this
Growing [Em] up in this world where everything is [Abm] scandalous
I reminisce on the [Eb] fast times
Past [B] crimes, trying to cop a slice of pizza with my last dime
[Abm] Can't explain just what [Ebm] attracts me to the dirty gang
[B] Gold chain, some extra change, and the street fame
[Abm] And what's strange is everybody [Ebm] know my name
Swear they [B] all know me
And lots of cash make a nigga change
[Ab] I hit the green just to [Ebm] maintain
Feeling [B] pain for all the niggas that I lost to the gang
From [Abm] my block, that's [Ebm] right
Living life is [E] but a [B] dream
Hard times, it's all [Abm] a dream
And it's dark, [Ebm] it's time [E] to wake
[B] Put on a block [Abm] with the good men
_ _ [B] _ [Gb] Put on a [Abm] block with the good men
_ [E] _ [B] Put on a block [Abm] with the good [B] men
_ _ Put on a block with [Abm] the good men
[B] I drop in the [E] jungle, Marin City
[B] Put on a block with [Abm] the good men
Los Angeles
[E] _ [Gb] Put on a block with [Abm] the good men Oakland
[B] Can't forget Oakton
Put on a block with the [Abm] good men
[B] And all the other blocks around this motherfuckin'
Houston, [Abm] Florida, St.
Louis, [Ebm] Tennessee, [B] Miami, Chicago
All y'all niggas [Gb] stay kickin' up