{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2293729,"song":"The Story","artist":"DMX","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11480432-the-story-chords-by-dmx/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2293729?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[tab]            [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI'm always talking shit cause wherever I go I walk in shit[/tab]\r\nAnd now they got me on some stalking shit\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nBroad daylight niggaz is crying \"But I don't want anyone to blast\"[/tab]\r\nSo from the roof I pick em off like a scab\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                        [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd watch the slug bust a thug like a watermelon[/tab]\r\nHe shoulda thought about that before caught a terror\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd now another kid grows up without a daddy or a mommy[/tab]\r\nCause at the funeral I hit up the caddy,\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                    [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nit's the army for real niggaz with nothing to lose[/tab]\r\nCause when it's time to go you don't get to choose\r\n[tab]           [ch]Em[/ch]                       [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI make the muthafuckin rules and I enforce it,[/tab]\r\nshorty's people was loose hand so he lost it\r\n[tab]             [ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI took the joints and tossed them, in the river,[/tab]\r\nat the same spot that I dumped\r\n[tab]                                              [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThis kid that didn't want to give a nigga the combo, to the safe in the crib[/tab]\r\nLook, money, that's why I did what I did\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]Em[/ch]                                 [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nMad stressed and I'm about to have a breakdown[/tab]\r\nIt's time for pops who got the store on the corner to have get a shakedown\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nHe hasn't paid for protection in like two months[/tab]\r\nSo I figured I'd leave him wit like two fronts\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nI break up shit to let him know that I'm real[/tab]\r\nReminder, I know where you live so don't squeal\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                      [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nTold him, next time I come, Have some paper for me[/tab]\r\nDon't fuck around and turn into another caper for me\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nCause though he's cool all that cool shit stops[/tab]\r\nAnd I be in the crowd talking bout, \"Yo who killed pops?\"\r\n[tab]          [ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nIt's a shame, he was caught up in the game and couldn't play it[/tab]\r\nSo I smoked him, I asked him \"who's the man\" and made him say it\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThree times, and that's how many times I hit him[/tab]\r\nA nigga was acting like he didn't have to pay so I did him\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nYo I think this shit is going to my head (for real)[/tab]\r\nBut let that be a lesson, don't pay dues and you dead\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                                [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nA little birdie told me that the feds were on to me[/tab]\r\nAnd they wanted to do something real wrong to me\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSo I broke out, Blazed the L for a while[/tab]\r\nChecked my sources and found my name was on file\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                   [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nUnder gun for hire and extortion, but yo I never use[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                         [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThe same joint twice as a precaution and I heard this kid tried to set me up[/tab]\r\nHe knew I knew so he tried to wet me up\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nSee he was under investigation for drugs[/tab]\r\nThey set up all types of phone taps and bugs\r\n[tab]                 [ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nThen when they bagged him, money went out, reprisent (he was my friend)[/tab]\r\nSaid they'd let him go, all he had to do was snitch\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]                               [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd I know now he wish they would have kept him[/tab]\r\nCause it was sweet how I crept him, wet him up then left him\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                                  [ch]Bm[/ch]\r\nAnd that's for mufuckas that don't know[/tab]\r\nGo against the grain and you feel the pain\r\nAight yo?","plain_text":"And now they got me on some stalking shit\n\nSo from the roof I pick em off like a scab\n\nHe shoulda thought about that before caught a terror\n\nCause at the funeral I hit up the caddy,\n\nCause when it's time to go you don't get to choose\n\nshorty's people was loose hand so he lost it\n\nat the same spot that I dumped\n\nLook, money, that's why I did what I did\n\n\nIt's time for pops who got the store on the corner to have get a shakedown\n\nSo I figured I'd leave him wit like two fronts\n\nReminder, I know where you live so don't squeal\n\nDon't fuck around and turn into another caper for me\n\nAnd I be in the crowd talking bout, \"Yo who killed pops?\"\n\nSo I smoked him, I asked him \"who's the man\" and made him say it\n\nA nigga was acting like he didn't have to pay so I did him\n\nBut let that be a lesson, don't pay dues and you dead\n\n\nAnd they wanted to do something real wrong to me\n\nChecked my sources and found my name was on file\n\n\nHe knew I knew so he tried to wet me up\n\nThey set up all types of phone taps and bugs\n\nSaid they'd let him go, all he had to do was snitch\n\nCause it was sweet how I crept him, wet him up then left him\n\nGo against the grain and you feel the pain\nAight yo?","chords":["Em","Bm","A"],"chord_diagrams":{"Bm":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,3,4,2,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]}}}