Chords for Quincy Jones ~ Back On The Block

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[G] Sticks and stones may break [E] your bones, but you ain't never felt the wrath of Quincy Jones.
Hard to the core, an entrepreneur, [Fm] and damn steady make slam for you [Cm] and your pleasure.
As you listen [Bb] to every measure, groove with the track as the cue [G] gets [Ab] fresher.
I've been away for a long time, [G] now I'm not only [Gb] back but I'm here to rhyme.
So bust [Gbm] a move, as I [E] include that I'm back on the block for [G] training the dude.
So hey young world, saying [B] Quincy, Quincy, I [Fm] need the dude to correct [E] and convince me.
Teach me the right way so my [Bb] eyesight may see that path that leads [B] to a brighter day.
So if you're ready [C] to reach for the top, [A] never fear, [Gb] cause I'm back on the block.
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[F] Back on the block, back [Dm] _
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[F] _ on the block, so we can rhyme with the soul of Ripple and Blue.
[Db] Hip hop and [Dm] hip hop, back on the block, [Ab] back on the block.
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[F] Ice T, let me kick my [G] credentials.
A young player bred [Db] in South [Dm] Central LA.
Home [G] of the body bag, you wanna die, wear [Bb] the wrong [Dm] color rag.
I used to walk in [F] stores and yell lay down, you flinch your ends, AK spray down.
But I was lucky cause I never caught the hard time, I was born with the [G] skills, so bust a move, rhyme.
All my homies died, I caught the [F] pencil.
Lost the diamonds, [Dm] cops told the pimp.
So I was living that life that we [G] thought was it.
Fast lane in, but the car flipped.
I'm not gonna lie to you cause I don't lie.
[F] I just kick big games, so people pray, why?
Cause I'm back on the block, I got my [G] life back.
So I school the [Gm] fools about the fast track.
I get static on the style of my technique.
[F] Profanity, the [Db] play way I put [Dm] to speak.
But the dude knows the [G] streets ain't no kiddie game.
[Dm] You don't know the dude?
Quincy's first name.
He told me I ain't keep doing what you're [F] doing man.
Don't give a damn if the [Dm] squares don't understand.
You let him tell you what to say and what to write.
Your whole career will be over by tomorrow night.
Wrap him your heart and your heart twist the street.
Rap on my record man, come here go sit down, you can dream.
The dude is deaf in the back, what can [Gb] I say?
The man can roll with IC, [Dm] I might be J.
Back, _ [A] back on the block.
_ [Gm] _
_ _ _ [Dm] Back on the block.
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[Dm] Back on the block.
So we can [D] rock with the soul, rip on the blue.
[G] Be popping hip hop, [F] back on the block.
[D] Back on the block.
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[F] I'm back on the block, [E] on the screen.
I'm on the wax, I'm on the [Db] stage, I'm on [Dm] the scene.
I'm on the [G] case just like an attorney.
The dude took me on a magic journey.
The dance in France, the dawn in Rome, all the farmlands in Nebraska, the [Db] cold of [Dm] Alaska.
The heat in the [D] motherland, the view of my brother man on top of a snow cap [G] mountain.
I'm [Dm] scouting what another man saw in a race of [F] people.
To see him give his life for the [Dm] rights of people.
The highest wisdom, the richest [F] kingdom.
The song of songs we heard [Gm] David [D] sing them.
He showed me me when I was young and [F] hung out.
He showed me making love, he even [Dm] showed me struggle.
He showed me pumping 9's and it [D] on the rock.
But tears came to my eyes [Gm] when he showed me my block.
Back, back _ _ on the block.
[D] Back, back on the block.
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ Oh get [Db] started, [D] _ _ _ _ we can stretch these blocks.
_ _ _ [Em] _ Oh get [Dm]
started, _ _ _ [C] we can make [G] _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[Dm] _ _ _ a show.
_ _ [G]
Now I'm in the _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G]
mood, now [D] you know [D] you're working.
Back on the [Gm] block today. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Back up and give the brothers on the left [F] floor a kick blowing the horn.
They make a CERN or a COSUM.
Cause I reminisced before [G] this blitz exists.
But now we brought [Gm] about a twist.
Cause [Dm] I remember reading of my people [F] bleeding.
Put through slavery and killed for bravery.
We should have got our freedom [Gm] much sooner.
You never seen a black man on the honeymooners.
But now somehow he learned to earn the growth to show.
The elevation of our [F] people is so.
Jesse Jackson, Miss America, a black one.
No more living for [Gm] just a small fraction.
I was once told by the dude that [F] knowledge is food.
The nervous [Dm] took a clue.
Just from an [G] Asiatic Ascendant, Big [Dm] Daddy is shocked.
The Q is [Gm] back on the block.
Back, _ [Em] back on the block.
_ [Dm] _
Back, [G] _ [F] back on the block.
_ [G] _
Back on the block.
So we can rock with the soul, the rhythm and the blues.
[F] We are the [Dm] hip hop.
Back on the block.
[Ab] On the block.
[G]
An everlasting omnipresence is my present.
State of being, seeing [Dm] the unpleasant.
Sight of righteous souls live like peasants.
The mind stunts growth and adolescence.
My insight [G] enables me to [A] enlighten the weakest of minds and not [F] put them in flight.
As I transcend the ace and a decent, we create, [Bb] reincarnate and reset.
[D] Powerful spirits of [D] our ancestors, of those that don't know how [Dm] God blessed us.
Because man [G] messed up, the media [G] dressed up.
Lies perpetrated the [Bb] truth and it left us [Dm] confused.
But I've seen it all before.
From Babylon to the Third [Dm] World War.
I'm more than a [G] man.
I'm more like an [F] entity.
Back on the [G] block and it's my identity.
Back, [Dm] back, back, back on _ _ [Gm] _
[D] the block.
_ _ _ Back on the block.
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Back on the block.
_ _ _ Back, back, back, [G] back on the block.
_ Back, back, back, _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ [Dm] _
[A] back on the block.
_ _ _ I would contend [G] that _ _ [Em] _
rappers, rappers give a state.
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