Facts

                      Am
I will only tell the truth
Em                       Am
I will only tell the truth
Incoming!
Am
Truth, truth, truth, truth
Am
Truth, truth, truth, truth, truth

[Verse 1]
Am
People wonderin', "Is he woke or 
just a new slave?"
Am
Old religion, he just covered it 
with new chains
Am
Choppin' out the church, he ain't 
really fake
Am                                
He divisive, he don't rep the 
  Em
King, he just want the fame
Am
Aw man, now they actin' like I'm 
suddenly political
Am                             
Told me shut my mouth and get my 
     Em
checks from Evangelicals
Am
Where my momma raised me, on Angela 
and Eldridge
Am                             Em
Chuck Berry made it, but the credit 
went to Elvis
Am
Know you never knew that, know you 
think I'm too black
Am               Dm              
I just think I'm too real, I grew
        Em
 up on 2Pac
Am
You grew up thinkin' that the 
Panthers was some terrorists
Am                           Em
I grew up hearin' how they fed my 
momma eggs and grits
Am
"'Crae, they say you should follow 
in the steps of King"
Am                   Dm          
I say, "You've forgotten how they
    Em
 shot him in the streets"
Am
I ain't really changed, it's the 
same old rebel
Am                             
Still a radical, I'm passionate, 
         Dm         Em
it's just another level (leggo!)
Am
AT told me I should fight back
Am
They don't like that (they don't)
Am
Just know if you rock the boat you 
better have a life raft (what?)
Am
BJ told me I should fight back
Am
They don't like that
Am
Just know if you rock the boat you 
better have a life raft, woo!

[Chorus: Ekemini Uwan]
Em            Am
I will only tell the truth (facts)
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People cannot abide by a truth. They
 prefer fantasy over reality... 
(facts)
Em                    Am
I will only tell the truth
Am
I am for truth no matter who tells 
it
Am
I will only tell the truth
I am for justice no matter who it is
 for or against (facts)

[Verse 2]
Am
Rose up out the dungeon
Am
I was feelin' haunted
Am
Now I'm bein' hunted
Am
And I'm on a hunnid
Am
Hit the gas, gunning
Am
Skip the past running
Am
Tell 'em they could bring that
Dm              Em
If they really want it
Am
I, I'm on the hometeam
Am
You just running with the wrong team
Am
Never take 'em with the heavyweights
 or, boy, you'll die and need a 
little protein
Am
Southside on the Yellowstone, had a 
ham bone and a white tee
Am
And a 12-pack of that real talk and 
I'm drunk, tell 'em, "Come find me"
Am                            Dm 
Draped up, dripped out, covered 
       Em
in the blood
Am                         Dm    
Man, I hang where they cripped 
    Em
out, sippin' on the mud
Am
Where they swingin', got the whips 
out, watch 'em pop trunk
Am
Yeah, I know it's hella dark, but 
I'm tryna light it up
Am
Now these people swear they on me, 
sendin' out threats
Am
Told me keep my mouth shut, told me 
be a Stepin Fetchit
Am
I will not oblige to your colonized 
way of faith
Am
My Messiah died for the world, not 
just USA
Am
They say, "Jesus was Conservative"
Dm                   Em
Tell 'em, "That's a lie"
Am
No, He not a Liberal either if you 
think I'll choose a side
Am
They say, "'Crae, you so divisive, 
shouldn't be a black church"
Am                               
I say, "Do the math, segregation 
Dm              Em
started that first!"
Am
Hey, you want unity? Then read a 
eulogy
Am
Kill the power that exists up under 
you and over me
Am
I said, you want unity? Then read a 
eulogy
Am
Kill the power that exists up under 
you and over me, woo! (facts)

[Spoken]
Am
So reconciliation or conciliation 
requires defrauded parties to be 
made whole. Not just apologizing for
 the offense

[Verse 3]
N.C.
I was waitin' for the right time to 
tell y'all how I feel
N.C.
And, yeah, I know that it hurts, but
 look, it's gon' heal
Cm
I waited 'til I was on prime time 
before I let y'all know
F                           Dm
And you prolly won't wanna hear my 
music no mo'
 Gm                         Cm
But it's all good, man, I love y'all
F
Hope you know that I'm black black
Dm                           Gm
Traded my Smart Car for a Cadillac, 
can you handle that?
Cm
And I love God
          F
I love Jesus, the one out of 
Nazareth
             Dm
Not the European with the ultra perm
 and them soft eyes and them thin 
lips
          Cm
And I'm still hood
F
Been in the 'burbs for quite some 
time
       Dm                   Gm
But I still might hit the gas 
station for the Lemonheads and the 
pork rinds
        Cm
And I'm on one
F
Yeah, 116 been real
Dm                          Gm
Binghamton, Tennessee, from Third 
Ward to Ceiling Hill
Cm                                
And I live in multiple world, call
         F
 me a hybrid 'cause I'm so black
Dm                                
Young theologian who educated, but
                   Gm
 still be at that Chicken Shack, 
yeah

[Otro]
A#
Lemme get a two piece