Pops rap iii (all my children) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[Dm][Pop[F]s][Dm]
Hey, hey old [F]bean
And you to baby sweetness
[Dm]Yeah, this is Pops[F],
and I'm back in the studio
And I didn't have to break [Dm]in this time
[F]I'm back as a special guest by
special [Dm]request
And I want to thank my [F]son for loaning me
this microphone once [Dm]again
They may have to [Am]wrestle
to get it back
You know, as a res[Dm]ult of my son
Common touring [Am]the world[C]
Pops [F]has acquired a [Dm]wonderful
extended [Am]family
From around the globe
He has re[Dm]turned [Am]with positive
messages [C]to my earlobes
From all [G]my [Dm]children From Mexico,
[Am]Brazil, Italy, Japan
[F]And of course [C]in the motherland
[Am]Even in the orient, they know what I meant
[Dm][Am]
Nanaan, tanaan, tinaan, hanchinaan
So I didn't come in
here to give any shouts out
[F]I came to give praise and honor and
to [Dm]identify my children
Who've been [F]saying
and doing the right things
You know they sat on those
[Dm]nines [F]of [C]1999
And kept [F]them from turning
upside [Dm]down
And teaching [Am]the babies[F][Dm]
To [F]love, to be able to give love
And to [Dm]enter the new century
with their [F]own prophecy
The [Dm]cen tury of amends
[F]You see I deal with the premise
that all [Dm]children are ours
And that we all [F]travel the same [G]path
It's just that we [Dm]don't get there
at [F]the same time
[C](See you next [Am]lifetime) See
you next [Dm]lifetime
And to my children running
around [Am]here
Talking about how nice is they ice
That [G]they've already
[Dm]paid for twice
What karat is they [C]gold
[Am]That was y[C]ours before
[F]you were done in [Dm]the hole
Or [Am]that crew from
1629, buy some [Dm]land
[Am]Think agriculture; beat
[Dm]that neighborhood
Which you claim [Am]you love so dear
[G]Are you mankin[Dm]d or what kind of [F]a man?
[Am]See, Pops is straight out of the g[Dm]arden
From when the world
[Am]was starting brand [G]new,
Hip [Dm]Hop, Hip [Am]Hop,
the language of the underground railroad
In it's purest [F]form
[G]Yeah true [Dm]hip hop is just like
the Underground Railroad
[Am]If the message is not [G]for [Am]you
[Dm]It can sit on your nose and your brain
remain [F]froze[G][Dm]
So when you see me traveling
on [F]a spiritual high
I'm flying [Dm]high with Cee- Lo
[F]Or maybe watching my long's heart
dancing to a De [Dm]La flow
Everybody [Am]knows there's no fruit on
the [G]tree with The [Dm]Roots
And Black [Am]Star said [F]we are what we are
[Am]The Knowledge Of Self Determination
[Dm]And my little homi[Am]e KG[G]
Up there in Min[Am]nesota
[Dm]milking 10000 lakes
[F]Keep [G]the heat on em',
we [Am]got t[F]o be kind to the growing m[Am]ind[F]
[G]So if your heart [Dm]is real
You will hear Big [F]Will [G]and Ms. Lauryn Hill
If your [Dm]love is true,
you will [Am]hear [Dm]Badu- ism
And you can't [F]go right until you go left
[G]And get some in[Dm]gredients from the music
[Am]chef [G]Jazzy Jeff[Dm]
[Am]Children, I've traveled this [C]globe
[F]North to [Dm]south[F], east to west[Am][F]
And [G]whenever my soul [Am]appears lost
[Dm]I turn to the musi[Am]cal styl[F]ings of a Tribe
Called [Am]Quest[C][Am][Dm][F]
Okay, we ready to get out of here
We ready [Dm]to take it home [Am]now
Just so everybody knows
When Pops get ready to say
something [Dm]good
I mean when it's [F]time for
me to lay it on [G]the wood
[Dm]And it ain't no [F]time [Am]for no[F]
shecky shecky
That's when I [G]turn to a Black
[Dm]Girl Named [F]Betty[G][Am][Dm]
[Am]Y'all looking for [G]the only [Dm]truth
and it doesn't [Am]even exist[F][G]
[Dm]I just come [Am]to give love and peace and honor to all

[Outro 1]
my children
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