The Day the Niggaz Took Over Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]"I'ma say this and I'ma end mine
If you ain't down for the Africans
here in the United States
Period, point blank
If you ain't down for the ones
that suffered in South Africa
From Apartheid and shit
Damnit, you need to step your
punk ass to [C#]the [D]side
And let us brothers and us Africans step in
And start puttin' some foot in that ass"

[Verse 2]
Break 'em [D]off somethin'
Break 'em [Db]off somethin'
Break 'em off somethin'
Break 'em off [Db]somethin'
Break 'em off somethin'
Break 'em off somethin'
Break 'em off somethin'
Break 'em off [C#]somethin'
I [D]got my finger

[Verse 3]
on the trigger,
some niggas wonder why
But livin' in the city, it's do- or- die
I got my finger on the trigger,
some niggas wonder why
But livin' in the city, it's do- or- die
[Ab]Dem wond[D]er

[Verse 4]
why mi violent,
dem no really [F#m]under [D]stand
For di [Ab]reason why mi [D]take
mi law [C#]in mi o[D]wn hand
Mi [Ab]not out for p[D]eace and
mi [C#]not Rodney [D]King
Dey [Ab]gun [D]goes click, mi gun goes bang
Dem riot in Compton and
dem riot in Long Beach
Dem riot in L.A. 'cause dem
no really [C#]wanna [D]see
[Ab]Niggas start to [D]loot and po
[C#]lice [D]start to shoot
Lock us down at seven o'clock,
barricade us [C#]like [D]Beirut
[Ab]Mi don't[D] show no love 'cause
it's us against dem
Dem never ever love mi 'cause
it's sport [C#]to break de[D]m
And [Ab]kill, [D]at my own risk, if I may
To lay, to spray with my AK

[Verse 5]
and put 'em to rest
[F#m]"Yes, [Gm]we h[D]ave, there have been riots,
[Cm]uh, [Gm]rioting
[D]Well, I don[Gm]'t wanna say[D] rioting but
there's [C]been looting [Gm]downtown
But right now [D]Bree,
what I want to show [C]you is
[Gm]They have [D]star[Gm]ted fire[D]s down
at the [C]end of the [Gm]street"
[D]How many

[Verse 6]
niggas are ready to loot?
Yeah, so what you wanna
do? What you [C#]wanna do?
[D]I said how many niggas
are ready to [C#]loot?
Got myself an Uzi and my
brother [C#]a ni[D]ne

[Verse 7]
"That's [D]what they told us today,
in other word[C#]s, you still a [D]slave
No matter how much money you got,
you still ain't shit!"

[Verse 8]
Sittin' [D]in my livin' room,
calm [F#m]and colle[C#]c te[D]d
[Dm]Feelin' that [D]gotta- get-
mine perspective
'Cause what I just heard broke me in half
And half the niggas I know,
plus the niggas on the Row is bailin'
Laugh now, but cry much later
You see when niggas get together they
get mad 'cause they can't fade us
Like my niggas from South [C#]Cent[D]ral,
Los Angeles
They found that they
couldn't handle us
Bloods, Crips on the same [Db]squad
With [Abm]the Es[D]e's helpin', nigga,
it's time [Db]to rob and m[D]ob
(And break the white man off somthin' [Gbm]lovely,
[D]biddy- bye- bye
I don't love them so them
can't love me)
Yo, straight puttin' down
gettin' my scoot on
It's jumpin' off in Compton
so I gots to get my loot on
And come up on me some
furniture or somethin'
Got a VCR in the back of [Db]my car
[D]That I ganked from the
Slauson Swap [C#]Meet
And mother[Ab]fucker[D]s better
not try to stop me
'Cause they will see that
I can't be [C#]stopped
[D]'Cause I'ma cock my Glock and

[Verse 9]
pop 'til they all drop
[D]"Yes, on [Gm]videotape we seem to have [Cm]the,
uh
[Gm]People in [D]the crowd throw[Gm]ing
things at the [Dm]officer[D]s"
"And [C]swinging [Gm]at them as[Cm] well
[D]As the[Gm]re was a, uh, you[D]ng woman there,
you [Cm]see, took [Gm]a swing at-
At an officer with some
object in her hand"

[Verse 10]
How [D]many niggas are ready to loot?
Yeah, so what you wanna do?
What you wanna do?
I said how many niggas are
ready to [C#]loot?[D]
Got myself an Uzi and my [C#]brother a nine

[Verse 11]
I got my finger on the trigger,
some niggas wonder why
But livin' in the city, it's do- or- die
I got my finger on the trigger,
some niggas wonder why
But livin' in the city, it's do- or[Db]- die

[Verse 12]
One- time trigger happy, no nigga love
One- eighty- seven time,
time to grab the glove
Can't get prints so a nine
I [C#]throw away
Or get prints on my Uzi when it spray
Pop- pop, pop, another [C#]motherfucker drop
And I get relief like, plop, [C#]plop, fizz
[Ab]Smash, I crashed his head
like [C#]a window
I ain't Nintendo, I'm high off [C#]the indo
Creep[Ab]in' with the quickness to the c[C#]ut
Bust one to his head while
he munches [C#]on a do[D]nut
And crack up, so now he best to back [C#]up
I guess I [Ab]gots to pack [D]up , fillin' the clip up
I zip uptown, the motherfuckin'
cops are all around
Helicopters flyin',
these motherfuckers [C#]tryin'
[Ab]To catch me an[D]d stretch
me on [C#]Death [D]Row
But hell no, the poor blacks
refuse to [D]go

[Verse 13]
[D]"This now [Gm]cov [D]ers a [Dm]very,
[D]ver[C]y wid[Gm]e are[D]a o[F#m]f Los [Gm]Angeles[D]
Where these fires [Cm]have been, [Gm]uh, ign[D]ited
[Gm]I mean, from[D] here to the, uh,[Cm]
[Gm]to the south end of South Cent[D]ral is a long way"[Cm]
Break [D]'em off somethin'

[Verse 14]
Break 'em off somethin'
Break 'em off somethin'
Break 'em off [C#]somethin'
Break 'em off [D]somethin'
Break 'em off [C#]somethin'
Break 'em off somethin'
Break 'em off [Db]somethin'

[Verse 15]
The outcome of this is destruction,
so them all fall
Niggas don't give a [Db]fuck,
so them bust and them [D]fall
The description of [Db]three blacks
Shows no [D]justice, so,
speak up it's your right
If [D]we riot again, mi turn the other [Db]cheek
[D]We be too many, mi got mi nine to my side
So mi bust, flick[D],
'cause he don't [D]give a fuck
And mi don't give a fuck
And [D]all my problems end
with [Db]that buck- buck

[Verse 16]
[D]Blam- blam, blam 'til dem [D]fall
Listen to the [D]shots from a nigga,
Doggy Dogg, biddy- bye
[D]Dr. Dre[Gm], him bus[D]t gun shots
Dig[Gm]gidy Daz and RBX, dem
[D]bust gun shots
Come again