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Hold you down Chords

Music by: Childish Gambino
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[Verse 1]
[Am]Oh, [Em]I want it, yeah[Dm]
[Am]Whenever you need my hand
[Em]I'll hold you down, oh[Dm][Am]
[Em]Oh, you want it, y[Dm]eah
[Am]Why in the fuck these niggas
[Em]Try and hold me down, oh?[Dm][Am]
You such a fuckin' [G]lame

[Verse 2]
[Em]
That's what they used to yell
[Dm]back in seventh grade
My [Am]mama said she'd get me that
new jacket when the [Em]cost go down
Hit the office,
stole some Tommy Hill [Dm]from lost and [Am]found
Not bad for a family [Em]of foster child
Lookin' fly man, [Dm]I'm flossin' now
But [Am]them niggas saw through
me
Are you serious? [G]What is this?
[Em]Took the jacket off third period,
[D]ellipses
[Am]Listening to "Sky is the Limit"
on [Em]my Walkman
Thinking if Biggie can make [Dm]it through it, man,
then I can
[Am]Dope boy swag
I always wanted that
[Em]But my persona was always
more of that [Am]Arthur Ashe
But no love for the son
of a com[Em]muter
Who was a radio head [Dm]and okay
at them computers
At the [Am]post office
It's funny how you smoke [Em]niggas,
then you start coffins
All my people need [Dm]throat loz[Am]enge
My fear is dead
Ambition [Em]drove the hearse
But niggas got [G]my feelin' I [Dm]ain't black
enough to go to church
[Am]Culture shock at barber shops
'cause I [G]ain't hood enough
[Em]We all look the same to the cops,
ain't [D]that good enough?
[Am]The black experience is blackened
serious
'Cause being [G]black, my experience,
[Dm]is no one hearin' us
White [Am]kids get to wear
whatever hat they [G]want
When [Em]it comes to black kids,
one size fits [Am]all
[Em]Oh, I want

[Verse 3]
it, [Dm]yeah
[Am]Whenever you need my hand
[G]I'll hol[Em]d you dow[Am]n, oh
[Em]Oh, you want it, yeah[Dm]
[Am]Why in the fuck these niggas
[Em]Try and hold me down[Am], oh?

[Verse 4]
[Am]We the baddest, nigga,
we [F]the baddest, [Em]nig ga
Yeah
We the baddest,
nigga, we the bad[Dm]dest, [Am]nigga[G]
[Am]Uh
[G]We the baddest,
[Em]nigga, we the baddest, nigga
We [Am]the baddest, nigga
Uh
We the baddest, [Em]nigga[G][Em]

[Verse 5]
[Am]The reason that they say I'm nothin'
what they [Em]seen or heard's
The [Dm]same reason Will Smith
always opposite Latino girls
[Am]They only see you how they
wanna see you
[G]'Til you make them [Em]see you in some
other way
I'm trippin' off [Am]the other day
'Cause God knows what
these white kids [Em]sayin'
Dude, [Dm]you're not not racist cause
The Wire's in [D]your Net[Am]flix queue
Subtle racism
It's hard [Em]to pin it 'cause
you'd only under[Am]stand
If you were me for just a minute
This one kid said [G]somethin'
that [Em]was really bad
He said I wasn't really black
because [Dm]I had [Am]a dad
I think [Em]that's kinda sad
Mostly 'cause a lot of black kids
think they [D]should agree with that
[Am]If you're a father,
you should stick around [Em]if you could
'Cause even if you're bad at
it, you get [Dm]Tiger Wood[Am]s
Or MJ
[Em]We warriors, we all need [Dm]senseis
Change [Am]everything that we've done so far
I [Em]don't mean makin' B.E.T. [G]T.E.R[Dm]
I mean just [Am]the way that
we see each other
I won't [Em]stop until they say,
"James [Am]Franco is the white Donald Glover"
Yeah, these niggas wanted Cookie but
instead I gave [Em]'em Loch Ness
Sick Boi for life,
my [Dm]swag is in the hospice
[Am]Aimin' for the throne,
Jay and Ye said to [Em]watch that
They ask me what I'm [Am]doin',
and I said I'm stealin' rock back
Nigga
[Em]Oh, I

[Verse 6]
want it, [Dm]yeah
[Am]Whenever you need my hand
[G]I'll hol[Em]d you dow[Am]n, oh
[Em]Oh, you want it, y[Dm]eah
[Am]Why in the fuck these niggas
[G]Try and[Em] hold me down[Am], oh?

[Verse 7]
[Am]Oh, [Em]I want it, yea[Dm]h
[Am]Whenever you need my hand
[Em]I'll hold you down, [Am]oh
[G]Oh, [Am]you want[Em] it, yeah[Dm]
[Am]Why in the fuck these niggas
Try an[Em]d hold me down,
[Am]oh?

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[Dm][Am]
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[Dm][G][Am]
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