Straighten It Out Chords by Point Blank

[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ Have you been through the ghetto lately?
Hell yeah, I've been in this motherfucker since day one and I ain't trying to get up here and straighten it out.
[Gm] Yo Black, you don't understand where you coming from man, you ain't gotta explain [F] all that to me dawg.
[Dm] All I can tell you to do is watch out for them laws [C] and keep your [Dm] nuts up.
Carry [F] no load, you ain't no [Gm] punk man.
There's a lot of people [C] out there that are gonna try [Gm] to get you slipping.
So you gotta [F] watch your [Dm] back homeboy.
You know I'm right [C] behind you, [Dm] don't even look back.
_ [Gm] All I remember is I [C] was playing with a matchbox, [Bb] took two matches out [Am] and filled it up with [Dm] rocks.
Went up on a cut and I slummed.
[C] A lot [Dm] of niggas got hung but I [F] was one of the [Gm] lucky.
Anyway, I kept doing, not knowing something to [Am] come along [Dm] and ruin it.
Yo Fiend set me up.
[C] I lost [Dm] my money, my house, my car and [Gm] my nut.
It was hard to [C] forget.
[Gm] And when I finally realized that [Am] I ain't hot shit, I [Dm] wanted to skip town and give them a [C] chase.
I said [Dm] fuck it, got a lawyer and tried to beat [Gm] the case.
I walked up in [F] the courtroom and looked [Gm] around at the [Dm] place where I [Am] soon meet my doom.
[Dm] The judge asked what I plead.
[C] I [Dm] waited a couple minutes and said damn, [Gm] I'm guilty.
I had to go to [Am] the penitentiary, [Gm] best he can get me was six and I knew [Am] I had to do [Dm] three.
Long years behind bars [Dm] with the rest of the American most [F] wanted [Gm] stars.
Then I asked [C] myself, why [Gm] me?
I should have thought about [D] this when I [Am] was making that [Dm] money.
Shit, now I'm in [Am] a jail cell [Dm] all alone.
Trying to get used to my [Gm] new home.
Thinking about the things I [C] used to [Gm] do.
Planning when I get out what I'm not going [Dm] to do.
Hell, three years ain't that long.
[Dm] It'll give me some time to write a [F] whole lot of [Gm] songs.
Man, now I'm trying to [C] chill myself [Gm] up but deep inside my [Am] heart's just [Dm] tore up.
Steady trying to psych myself out.
[Dm] But after a couple of months I've been in [F] play, dish [Gm] it out.
I used to be a crazy ass [C] dope man.
[Gm] Rolling with Scarface, [Dm] Terrorist and a Peter Man.
I should have listened to the Godfather.
[Dm] He said, Blank, you better chill or your ass going to [Gm] suffer.
Now that's exactly what I'm doing.
Damn, my [Dm] life is ruined.
Selling that shit.
Yeah, I know you got [G] to live and learn.
No brothers [Bb] for you.
Quit that.
You see how I am?
[Gm] _ _ [C] Yeah, it's time [Gm] for a coalition.
[G] We got to stick [C] together, man.
[Dm] Street side ain't down with us.
So I say down with the side.
I'm talking about [Gm] brotherhood.
Blank was a child of the [C] concrete, [Gm] man.
So we got to let the sand and go at it.
[C] [Dm] We got to mine like a hand grenade.
Let it [Dm] explode up in your lawn, brother.
_ [Gm] My son was eight months when I lost track.
And he'll be damn near four [Am] when I get [Dm] back.
And if I do see him then, [Dm] will he know I'm his father?
Or think I'm a [Gm] strange man?
Sometimes I say, if you [C] remember me.
[Gm] But if I ask him, come here, Bank.
[F] Will he [Dm] answer me?
I guess this I'll never [Bb] know.
Till I get out in 1994.
[Gm] Let's take it out.
Yeah, time gets to a point where a brother don't know what's coming at him.
[C] See, you [Dm] can point blank, but in the reality, that's the big thing.
Can't go wrong.
[Gm] You know, Blank, I know you did wrong, but sometimes you got to [C] go through the wrong [Gm] to learn what's right.
You see what [C] I'm talking about?
[Dm] _ You know you good.
Yeah.
_ _ [Gm] Now I'm back on the streets and guess [C] what?
I'm [Gm] starved.
Selling [D] drugs [F] and stole [Dm] robbing.
My son was bigger than a mother fucker.
I [Dm] was 22, he was four.
Looked just like my little [Gm] brother.
Deep in my heart, I felt nothing [C] but pain.
[Gm] Couldn't count worth shit, but I can measure [F] some [Dm] cocaine.
My father said, son, [C] you better sit [Dm] down or somebody gonna put [F] you in a [Gm] ground.
But no, I ain't [C] listen.
[Gm] I make my own [Dm] decisions.
Fuck the ass kissing.
I'm not a menace to society.
[Dm] God damn it, society's a menace to me.
[Gm] Point blank is strong.
I did whatever I had to do, because I knew I [F] wouldn't live [Dm] long.
So I called my girlfriend.
She [Dm] said, baby, please stop.
You just got out the [Gm] pen.
But one day, a lot of shit [C] went wrong.
[Gm] Punk motherfuckers done tapped [Am] my [Dm] telephone.
Yeah, they tried to [C] rob me.
I [Dm] knew it wasn't a hit, because the shit [Gm] was sloppy.
I went along with [C] it.
The [Gm] last thing I saw was the sky, [Dm] and I'll never [Am] forget it.
[Dm] And as I laid on the [C] ground, [Dm] I said, God, I let you down.
I guess you [Gm] let yourself out.
Your blanket look like a shadow, baby.
Baby don't got [C] your back.
[Dm] You got these three grades, you need to play.
You be all right.
[Gm] You really ain't got [F] no choice.
You [Gm] just gotta be up.
You know you got people in your life that's down with you.
My boy [C] Dopey, [Dm] Aja B, K.O.
[C] You [Dm] can't lose with that SBC.
[Gm] Long walk is a walk.
[C] You was born [Gm] dressed.
Life's [C] creamy milk is [Dm] always on your side.
[C] Let [Dm] it ride, brother.
Let it ride.
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[Gm] _ _ _ [F] _ [Dm] SBCP.
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[Dm] SBCP.
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SBCP.
SBCP.
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[Gm] SBCP.
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