Reality Check OPM
Intro (0:00)
[B]
Hamonics riff (0:05)
[D] [E] [B]
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Speech (0:13)
[B]It's a Reality check from the streets of Southern California
[D]With brothas always smokin' on the doja
[E]The O.P.M., damn we rollin'
[B]Hand on the mic till we decide about the sick life
Verse (0:26)
[D] [E] [B]
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[D]California where I raised till this very day
[E]Hell to pay for the ways of the blaze
[B]Everyday a hundred miles an hour
[B]Cause my soul's been devoured
[D]Never looked up above and push came to shove
[E]As it usually does, keepin' with these thugs
[B]Doin' all of these drugs with no means of direction
[B]Infection, but here's my objection
Verse (0:46)
[D]Rejection by your whole congregation
[E]With no empathy for my situation
[B]No place in society that's my reality
[B]Angry don't know who's the enemy
[D]I'm in deep, underneath the streets
[E]It's hard to creep from city to city
With all these hitters and the heat
[B]Killin' me stealin from me, makes no sense to me
[B]So I keep it tight with the homies in the family
Chorus (1:06)
[D] [E] [B]
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[D]Here's a reality check from the streets of california
[E]Keep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[D]Here's a reality check from the streets of california
[E]Keep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
Postchorus (1:26)
[D] [E] [B]
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Verse (1:36)
[D]We're all smokin, tryin' broken homes
[E]Chokin' locos, for pesos, slingin' dope by the case os
[B]Smokin' cocos, laced with dope and opium
[B]Cities for niggaz causin' f**kin' pandemonium
[D]Spoiled by suburbia, Cottonmouth what then all the man
[E]Formin' corny reputations
[B]Bustin' tracks from Kid Kreation me and the artists
[B]Who performed the hardest collaberations
Verse (1:56)
[D] [E] [B]
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[D]Born and raised in the golden state
Don't invite no plates servin' up some dinner
[E]For southern county serial sinner
[B]Imperial, superial lyrical
In again, see the opium den,
We see the man who posed prohibitin'
[D]And drop a eight to eliminate a peaceful
[E]Evolution of man for your political pollution
[B]There's no solution for these county criminal minds
[B]Just subliminal rhymes, hypnotizing mankind
Chorus (2:17)
[D] [E] [B]
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[D]Here's a reality check from the streets of california
[E]Keep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[D]Here's a reality check from the streets of california
[E]Keep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
Bridge (2:37)
[D]Here's a reality check from the streets of califonia
Verse (2:43)
[E]See california the major growth industry
Are private security and penitentiary
[D]Risin from the climatose cold war economies
That's why the pigs got my homies down on their knees
[E]Lined up against the walls, so the community can see
That the po po won't go away, so please now
[D]Open up your eyes and realize
The land of sunny skies, disguised as paradise, is a li[E]e
Chorus (3:07)
[D] [E] [B]
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[D]Here's a reality check from the streets of california
[E]Keep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
(from here play both riffs)
[D]Here's a reality check from the streets of california
[E]Keep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
[B]Things ain't always what they seem
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