G#m   F#  E
G#m   F#  E
C#m   B   A
C#m   B   A
G#m   F#  E
G#m   F#  E
C#m   B   A
C#m   B   A

[Verse 1]
G#m                   F#                 E
   Visions of Martin Luther staring at me
G#m                   F#                 E
    Malcolm X put a hex on my future, someone catch me
C#m                         B                A
   I'm falling victim to a revolutionary song,
C#m            B
    the Serengeti's clone
        A            G#m                         F#
Back to put you backstabbers back on your spinal bone
                  E          G#m
You slipped your disc when I slid you my disc
               F#                     E
You wanted to diss but jumped on my dick
C#m                         B                A
    Grown men never should bite their tongue
           C#m                          B            A
Unless you eating pussy that smell like it's a stale plum
         G#m                        F#            E
I got my finger on the mothafuckin' pistol
               G#m                             F#        E
Aiming it at a pig, Charlotte's web is going to miss you
                C#m                     B
My issue isn't televised, and you ain't gotta tell the wise
A                C#m                             B
How to stay on beat, because our life's an instrumental
         A           G#m                    F#
This is physical and mental, I won't sugar coat it
                   E               G#m         F
You'd die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
                  E          C#m               B
And everything on TV just a figment of imagination
         A            C#m                      B
I don't want plastic nation, dread that like a Haitian
          A                         C#m
While you mothafuckas waiting, I be off the slave ship
         C#m
Building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs


[Chorus]
A                B        F#m
   Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR
A                   B           F#m
   Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR
C#m
Five-star dishes, food for thought, bitches
C#m
    I mean the shit is, Huey Newton going stupid
A                 B          F#m
    You can't resist his HiiiPoWeR
A                   B           F#m
   Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR


[Verse 2]
G#m                   F#                 E
     Visions of Martin Luther staring at me
G#m                   F#                 E
If I see it how he seen it, that would make my parents happy
C#m                         B                A
    Sorry mama, I can't turn the other cheek
C#m                         B                A
They wanna knock me off the edge like a fucking widow's peak, uh
G#m                   F#                 E
    And she always told me pray for the weak, uh
G#m                   F#                 E
    Them demons got me, I ain't prayed in some weeks, uh
C#m                         B                A
Dear Lord come save me, the devil's working hard
C#m                         B                A
He probly clocking double shifts on all of his jobs
N.C.
Frightening, so fucking frightening
N.C.
Enough to drive a man insane, I need a license to kill
C#m                         B                A
I'm standing on the field full of land mines
C#m                         B                A
Doing the moonwalk, hoping I blow up in time
G#m                   F#                 E
   Cause 2012 might not be a fucking legend
G#m                   F#                 E
Tryna be a fucking legend, the man of mankind
C#m                         B                A
Who said a black man in the Illuminati?
C#m                         B                A
Last time I checked, that was the biggest racist party
C#m                         G#m
So get up off that slave ship
C#m         G#m
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs


[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
A                B        F#m
   Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR
A                   B           F#m
   Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR
C#m
Five-star dishes, food for thought, bitches
C#m
I mean the shit is, Bobby Seale making meals
A                 B          F#m
    You can't resist his HiiiPoWeR
A                   B           F#m
   Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR



[Bridge]
G#m F#             E   G#m         F#             E
         Every day we fight the system just to make our way
C#m                         B                A
We been down for too long, but that's alright
C#m                         B                A
We was built to be strong, cause it's our life, na-na-na
G#m F#             E   G#m         F#             E
      Every day we fight the system, we fight the system
C#m      B     A
We fight the system (Never like the system)
C#m                         B                A
We been down for too long but that's alright, na-na-na


[Verse 3]
G#m F#             E
    Who said a black man in the Illuminati?
G#m                  F#                     E
Last time I checked, that was the biggest racist party
 C#m                         B                A
Last time I checked, we was racing with Marcus Garvey
C#m                         B                A
On the freeway to Africa 'til I wreck my Audi
 G#m                  F#                     E
And I want everybody to view my autopsy
G#m                  F#                     E
So you can see exactly where the government had shot me
 C#m                         B                A
No conspiracy, my fate is inevitable
 C#m                         B                A
They play musical chairs once I'm on that pedestal
 G#m                  F#                     E
Frightening, so fucking frightening
 G#m                  F#                     E
Enough to drive a man insane, a woman insane
    C#m                         B                A
The reason Lauryn Hill don't sing, or Kurt Cobain
 C#m                         B                A
Loaded that clip and then said bang
                       G#m                       F#
The drama it bring is crazy, product of the late 80's
       E     G#m                  F#                     E
Tryna stay above water, that's why we shun the navy
      C#m                         B                A
Pull your guns and play me, let's set it off
                    C#m      B    A
Cause a riot, throw a Molotov
    G#m                  F#                E
Somebody told me them pirates had got lost
C#m   G#m
     Cause we been off them slave ships
C#m   G#m
   Got our own pyramids, write our own hieroglyphs


[Chorus: Kendrick Lamar]
A                B        F#m
   Just call the shit HiiiPoWeR
A                   B           F#m
   Nigga, nothing less than HiiiPoWeR
C#m
Five-star dishes, food for thought, bitches
C#m
I mean the shit is, Fred Hampton on your campus
A                 B          F#m
    You can't resist his HiiiPoWeR
A                      B        F#m
   Throw your hands up for HiiiPoWeR


[Outro: Kendrick Lamar]
G#m F#             E
                  Thug Life!
G#m F#             E
                  Thug Life!