What If chords and lyrics - NAS

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[Intro 1]
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[F]Yep[Em]

[Verse 1]
[G]
[Em]Ah- a
Yo

[Verse 2]
Take [Em]a second,
what [F]if [Am]we could rewind the hood?
Better yet, [F]what if the [Am]L.O.X. would've
signed [Em]with [Am]Suge?
What if Puffy never signed us?
What [Em]if Oprah made them comm[G]ents
Like Imus?
What if you designed [Em]this
[Am]Thought like I did?
[Em]Said it like [Am]this
[Em]What if Pe[F]yton was fighting
[Am]dogs [Em]instead of Mike Vick?
What [Am]if Arnold would just
[Em]let Tookie get life?
What [G]if B.I.G. missed the party,
what if 'Pac missed the fight?
What [F]if you was [Am]caged in?
What would you change then?
What [F]if there was [Am]no Roc-
A- Fella law for Made Men?
What [F]if hate ran through [Am]me?
And what if [G]Portland
Would've drafted Jordan
Instead of Sam Bowie?
[Em]What if yo[F]u really had t[Am]o be
nice to get a deal?
What [F]if all [Am]of these
rappers' ice was [Em]really real?
[Am]What if [F]I hit you with the razor
[Am]from cheek to chin?
[Em]What if Mi[G]ke Jackson never would
have bleached his skin?
[Em]What if

[Verse 3]
you nev[Am]er knew things
that [Em]you needed to know?
What if you nev[Am]er been places
you needed [Em]to go?
What if [Am]you get [F]there,
and learned [Am]them [Em]as you go?
"What [G]if" is the question,
can I ask then [Em]once more?

[Verse 4]
What if [Em]you never [Am]knew things that
[Em]you needed t[Am]o kn[Em]ow?
What if you [Am]never been places
you needed [Em]to go?
What if [Am]you get [F]there,
and learned [Am]them [Em]as you [Am]go?
[Em]"What [G]if" is the question,
can I [Em]ask then once more?

[Verse 5]
What if the [Em]pain went away?
[Am]What if you [Em]changed in a [F]day?
What if you can eliminate
[Am]All the [Em]games
People play?
[Am]What if [F]Shyne beat the case?
[Am]What if Diddy did a dime[Em] flat?
[G]What if Nelson Mandela could
give his time [Em]back?
[F]What if Malcolm was silent?
[Am]What if Martin was violent?
[F]What if you could really "sneak
[Am]an uzi on the is[F]land"?
Yeah
What if I made you [Am]kiss the [F]nina?
[G]What if a brick was only just
a [Em]misde[G]meanor[Em]?
What if [Am]Manhattan was hit by
Hurricane [F]Katrin[Am]a?
What if a black man was the [Em]one
con[Am]trolling [Dm]Fema[Am]?
What [F]if we [Am]ain't never let
emotions come between [G]us?
What if the last time we rode,
someone seen us?
[Em]What if

[Verse 6]
[Am]What if you never knew thing[Em]s
that you needed to know?
What if [Am]you nev[F]er been [Am]places
you needed [Em]to go?
What if [F]you get there,
and learned [Am]them as [Em]you go?
"What [G]if" is the question,
can [Em]I ask then once more?

[Verse 7]
What if [Em]you never [Am]knew thing[Em]s
that you needed to know?
What if [Am]you never been places
you needed to [Em]go?
What if [Am]you get [F]there,
an[Am]d learned them as you go?
[Em]"What if" is [G]the question,
can [Em]I ask then once more?

[Verse 8]
Yeah, yea, yo [Em]I
flow [Am]calm
But don't [Em]push
What [Am]if Saddam
Hung [F]Bush?
What if "One [Am]Mic" was
[Em]called "One Hook"?
What if the [Am]Bridge never showed
me how to [Em]hold a weapon?
What if [G]I ran into that sick chick
with no pro[Em]tection?
What if [Am]I never wore that army
[Em]jacket?
Carhard to match [Am]it
Un[F]laced tims, [Am]the hood on my [Em]first
album cover [Am]under [F]plastic?
What if [Am]I was just another [Em]corny rapper?
What if [G]I went first instead of Notorious,
who would tell my story after[F]?
What if we loved [Am]less and lust [Em]more?
If Obama was on [Am]Rushmore?
Would Ali give Tyson a busted jaw?
[F]What if I never [Am]glared out that
[Em]project window?
Whenever was [G]scared for me
and the life of my kinfolk?
What if that [Em]gun pin b[Am]roke?
I would have never linked
back in the En[F]zo all red
[Am]What if real niggas was all dead
What [F]if Hil[Am]ary and them was reptilian?
[Em]And [G]2012 was the end of men
And all world civilians?

[Verse 9]
What if [Am]you neve[F]r [Am]knew things
that [Em]you needed to know?
What if [Am]you nev[F]er been [Am]places
you needed [Em]to go?
What if [F]you get there,
[Am]and learned them as you go?
[G]"What if" is the question,
can I [Em]ask then once more?

[Verse 10]
What if [Em]you never knew things
that you needed to know?
What if [Am]you never been places
[Em]you needed [Am]to go?
What if you get [F]there,
[Am]an d learned them as you go?
[Em]"What [G]if" is the question,
can [Em]I ask then once more? "What [F]if"?[Am]

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