Testify Chords by August Alsina

[Start]

[Intro]
Dm C Bb D7 Gm7 Gm Ebmaj7 Dm
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Dbm F Gm Bb Bbmaj7 Gm7 Ebmaj7
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[Verse]
                     Dm         
I remember wakin' up being broke
    Dm7             C          
But still it wasn't breakin' us
  Bb                       C    
I remember why I broke the rules
            Gm7         Gm        Bb        
Cuz I ain't really have nobody to look up to
  Dm               Am             
I remember cuttin' class bein' bad
      Dm                                 
Cuz I ain't have what them other kids had
  Bb                                 
I remember wishin' that I knew my dad
       Gm7                Am7               
Then I remember wishin' I could get him back
                               Dm                                 
For every single night that he told me he was comin' and he didn't
                 Dm                                  
For every single dollar that my mama 'nem was missin'


[Chorus]
                  Bb                                   
For every thing I wanted and was told I couldn't get it
                  Bb                                
And that I had to face it that my daddy was addicted
             Dm                       
That's right it wasn't easy growin' up
                        Dm                 
Mama was exposin' us to life as she knew it
   Dm                    
So we all went through it
  Bb                                                      
I remember bein' down and out sleepin' on my homie's couch
Am7                     Bb                      
In & outta trouble ever since my mama put me out


[Verse]
Dm                                           
Damn it's getting real damn it's getting real
Dm                                            
Didn't graduate I'm thinking damn I gotta deal
   Bb                                             
So I hit da block selling rocks just to eat a meal
   Bb                               
So I grabbed da Glock kept it cocked
Bb                  
Peace is being still
      Dm         D7                                   
In da back of da tracks my nigga's stayed wit da packs
       Dm                                                
And if a nigga was schemin' my brotha stayed with tha gat
           Bb                                       
Yea yea we stayed in da trap yea everyday in da trap
               Am7                           Bb               
These ho's was chasin' da cheese so we would stay wit da rat's
       Dm                                             
And we was ridin' down dippin' low I stayed in da back
   Dm                                         
In the Xfive stuntin' we ain't know how to act
Bb                                                      
Spendin' money like it's nothin' cuz we gone get it back
Bb                                                   
Seventeen never thought that I'd be gettin' dem racks


[Chorus]
      Dm                                        
Had a dream but I said I wasn't fuckin' wit that
    Dm                                              
Mel told me I would make it I ain't fuckin' wit that
       Bbmaj7                                        
But he told me that it wouldn't hurt to give it a try
Gm7                  Am7               Bbmaj7        
Hardest thing out in New Orleans never see twentyfive


[Verse]
             Dm                Am                             
Right then I woke up broke out told my nigga's had to roll out
      Dm                                                       
Moved to the A and got motivated that inspiration don't run out
Bb                                                         
Heard my brother got gunned down and it hurt me to my heart
     Bb                                               
So I kept grindin' I kept pushin' he told me to go far
   D7                                          
So I can't stop at no crib can't stop at no car
Dm                                           
Gotta keep going like there ain't no tomorrow
       Bbmaj7                                                                Am7
So I'm goin' hard everyday 'til I got nothin' to say nothin' can stand in my way
                     Bbmaj7                     F
I gotta stay to show my nigga's a different way ■
             F                       
Imma tell da truth and da whole truth
    F                         
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
Bb                                  
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
           Gm     
So I gotta testify
                Dm     
For you and I I testify
Dm                                   
Imma tell da truth and da whole truth
    Dm                        
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
Bb                                  
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
           Gm     
So I gotta testify
Am7     Am      Dm     
For you and I I testify


[Chorus]
                                Dm   
Imma tell da truth and da whole truth
    Dm                        
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
Bb                            C     
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
           Gm7    
So I gotta testify
G7      Bb      Dm     
For you and I I testify
Dm                                   
Imma tell da truth and da whole truth
Dm                            
Cuz there ain't no need to lie
Bbmaj7                        C     
And I ain't tryna keep it all inside
           G7     
So I gotta testify
        Bbmaj7  Dm     
For you and I I testify
  Bbmaj7    Bb     
I testify I testify


[Outro]
Gm Am7 Bb C
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[End]