Lil Durk – All My Life (ft. J. Cole)

Performed by
J. Cole
Lil Durk
Release Year
2023
Suggested Capo
Fret 3

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Lil Durk – All My Life (ft. J. Cole)
Key: C Minor BPM: ♩ = 72 Time: 4/4
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   Durkio told me he been on some positive shit, yeah, yeah
|Fm                         2aBb/D                             |
   Lately, I just wanna show up and body some shit, yeah, yeah
|Cm              Bb/D     2aEb                            |
   Always been a lil' mathematician, lately it's cash I’m
|Fm                          2aBb/D                               |
 gettin’, got me losin' count of these bags, I've been movin' too
|Cm         Bb/D       2aEb                               |
 fast, hard times don't last, 'member when cops harrassed
|Fm                      2aBb/D                                   |
 Talkin' out my ass, boy, you ain't shit but a bitch with a badge

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 All  my      life (All my life)
         |Fm               2aBb/D                                   |
They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)
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 All  this    time (All this time)
     |Fm                     2aBb/D                               |
Never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

|Cm              Bb/D     2aEb                             |
   They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)
|Fm                      2aBb/D                      |
   They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)
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 All  my      life (All my life)
         |Fm               2aBb/D                                   |
They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)

|Cm          Bb/D    2aEb                                    |
 I decided I had to finish, but the media called me a menace
|Fm                               2aBb/D                                 |
   I done sat with the mayor and politicians, I'm tryna change the image
|Cm          Bb/D    2aEb                                    |
   You can't blame my past no more, I come from the trenches
|Fm                        2aBb/D                                            |
   Some said I'd never be a superstar, but I know I'm different (No, no, no)

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   I'm The Voice, but the system ain't give me a choice
                       |Fm                              2aBb/D              |
Know some people that's still undeployed, I know a felon who tryna get FOID

                  |Cm            Bb/D            2aEb                  |
Child support your only support, for a visit, I'm goin' through courts
                      |Fm                               2aBb/D              |
Went to jail, they was chainin' me up, and you know that I'm famous as fuck
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See how you gon' joke about stimulus? But they really had came in the clutch
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I know some kids wanna hurt theyself
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Stop tryna take drugs, I refer to myself, tryna better myself, tryna better my health but

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 All  my      life (All my life)
         |Fm               2aBb/D                                   |
They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)
|Cm   Bb/D   2aEb                |
 All  this    time (All this time)
     |Fm                     2aBb/D                               |
Never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

|Cm              Bb/D     2aEb                             |
   They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)
|Fm                      2aBb/D                      |
   They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)
|Cm   Bb/D   2aEb                |
 All  my      life (All my life)
         |Fm               2aBb/D                                   |
They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)

|Cm               Bb/D     2aEb                          |
 First generation ghetto nigga, cole world, hello niggas
|Fm                                  2aBb/D                                          |
 Made it out the city with my head on straight, niggas keep shootin' up the lead out
|Cm                        Bb/D    2aEb                            |
 Young Jordan Peele, gotta get out,   but the shit that I spit out
    |Fm                            2aBb/D                            |
Is a cheat code like I'm facin' a RICO and how a nigga put a hit out

     |Cm         Bb/D            2aEb                              |
And another one, and, and another one, I got like a hundred of 'em
        |Fm                            2aBb/D                                       |
'Bout to lap niggas so they think they ahead of me, but I'm really in front of them
|Cm               Bb/D         2aEb                                          |
 Now some of them fumblin' they bags, fuckin’ up the little crumbs that they
|Fm                           2aBb/D                                       |
 had, a reminder to humble yourself, this shit could be gone in an instant

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Me, I'm runnin' long distance, all pistons firin'
                          |Fm                                          2aBb/D    |
I be stuck between maybe retirin' and feelin' like I'm just not hittin' my prime
                            |Cm                Bb/D                  2aEb   |
These days seein' rappers be dyin', way before they even gettin' they shine
                               |Fm                              2aBb/D   |
I never even heard of lil' buddy, ’til somebody murdered lil' buddy

                                          |Cm                        Bb/D      2aEb            |
Now I'm on the phone, searchin' lil' buddy name, got 'em playin' his tunes, all day in my room
               |Fm                                        2aBb/D                              |
Thinkin', "Damn,  this shit is wicked, to get they name buzzin' some niggas just gotta go lay
         |Cm          Bb/D       2aEb                      |
in a tomb”, and media thirsty for clicks, I got a new rule
                  |Fm                          2aBb/D                                           |
If you ain't never posted a rapper when he was alive, you can't post about him after he get hit

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  It's simple, it's the principle, on any tempo
          |Fm                                        2aBb/D                                    |
I'm invincible, don’t even rap, I just vent to you, I rather that than an interview, most days
|Cm                      Bb/D              2aEb                                             |
   Fuck 'em all like I'm goin' through a ho phase, young nigga shoot out the whip like road
|Fm                                  2aBb/D                                             |
 rage, I pray all of my dawgs stay so paid, and the only thing that kill 'em is old age

|Cm   Bb/D   2aEb                |
 All  my      life (All my life)
         |Fm               2aBb/D                                   |
They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)
|Cm   Bb/D   2aEb                |
 All  this    time (All this time)
     |Fm                     2aBb/D                               |
Never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

|Cm              Bb/D     2aEb                             |
   They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)
|Fm                      2aBb/D                      |
   They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)
|Cm   Bb/D   2aEb                |
 All  my      life (All my life)
         |Fm               2aBb/D                                   |
They been tryin' to keep me down (They been tryin' to keep me down)

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