HiiiPower Chords by Kendrick Lamar

[Start]

[Intro]
N.C.                                  
Everybody put three fingers in the air
N.C.                                  
The sky is falling the wind is calling
N.C.                                     
Stand for something or die in the morning
                        C#m      
Sectionzero point eight HiiiPoWeR
B7 C#m B C#m E Amaj7 B C#m
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B7 C#m E C#m E
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[Verse]
G#m                      C#m          
Visions of Martin Luther staring at me
E                                        C#m     
Malcolm X put a hex on my future someone catch me
            E                         C#m 
I'm falling victim to a revolutionary song
    E                
The Serengeti's clone
                C#m          Amaj7        B7         
Back to put you backstabbers back on your spinal bone
                      C#m                    
You slipped your disc when I slid you my disc
    B7                              C#m 
You wanted to diss but jumped on my dick
E                                      
Grown men never should bite they tongue
C#m                          B7                          
Unless you eating pussy that smell like it's a stale plum
B7                                         
I got my finger on the motherfucking pistol
C#m                                B7               
Aiming it at a pig Charlotte's Web is gonna miss you
   C#m                           E                        
My issue isn't televised and you ain't gotta tell the wise
       C#m                             E              
How to stay on beat because our life's an instrumental
        C#m                               B7     
This is physical and mental I won't sugar coat it
                C#m                     B7             
You'll die from diabetes if these other niggas wrote it
                  C#m                  E          
And everything on TV just a figment of imagination
               C#m                       A             
I don't want a plastic nation dread that like a Haitian
          Amaj7         A      
While you motherfuckers waiting
                                                         A          
I be off the slave ship building pyramids writing my own hieroglyphs


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


[Verse]
B                        C#m          
Visions of Martin Luther staring at me
                B7                            C#m          
If I see it how he seen it that would make my parents happy
E                                      
Sorry mama I can't turn the other cheek
C#m                         E                                C#m
They wanna knock me off the edge like a fucking widow's peak uh 
        E                                C#m
And she always told me pray for the weak uh 
                   B                            C#m
Them demons got me I ain't prayed in some weeks uh 
     E                             C#m         
Dear Lord come save me the devil's working hard
                                             C#m     
He probably clocking double shifts on all of his jobs
                       C#m        
Frightening so fucking frightening
          C#m               
Enough to drive a man insane
         C#m            
I need a license to kill
    G#7                         C#m      
I'm standing on a field full of landmines
          G#7                       C#m    
Doing the moonwalk hoping I blow up in time
              B7                    C#m           
'cause twenty twelve might not be a fucking legend
           E             
Tryna be a fucking legend
           C#m    
The man of mankind
           E                C#m       
Who said a black man in the Illuminati
            G#7                          C#m         
Last time I checked that was the biggest racist party
   C#m                       
So get up off that slave ship
A                                                 
Build your own pyramids write your own hieroglyphs
B                  A        
Just call the shit HiiiPower
B                       C#m      
Nigga nothing less than HiiiPower
                                  A      
Five star dishes food for thought bitches
                               A           
I mean the shit is Bobby Seale making meals
                     B        
You can't resist his HiiiPower
                        A        
Throw your hands up for HiiiPower
             A                                    
Every day we fight the system just to make our way
B                                                
We've been down for too long but that's all right


[Chorus]
A                  Bmaj7  E C#m7 E      C#m C#m7 B C#m                     
We was built to be strong ■ ■    'cause ■   ■    ■ ■   it's our life nanana
Amaj7                        
Every day we fight the system
                        C#m                 E     C#m       
We've been down for too long but that's all right ■   nanana


[Verse]
                        C#m       
Who said a black man in Illuminati
                                                C#m  
Last time I checked that was the biggest racist party
            E                          C#m          
Last time I checked we was racin' with Marcus Garvey
               E                        C#m    
On the freeway to Africa 'til I wrecked my Audi
E                               C#m    
And I want everybody to view my autopsy
                                                C#m    
So you can see exactly where the government had shot me
   G#m7                  C#m       
No conspiracy my fate is inevitable
G#7                                         C#m     
They played musical chairs once I'm on that pedestal
B7                     C#m        
Frightening so fucking frightening
          B7          B              C#m   
Enough to drive a man insane a woman insane
    Amaj7              E                  C#m   
The reason Lauryn Hill don't sing or Kurt Cobain
                          E        
Loaded that clip and then said bang
             Amaj7         
The drama it bring is crazy
B                           
Product of the late eighties
      B                                           
Tryna stay above water that's why we shun the Navy
          Amaj7           
Pull your guns and play me
          G#m7           Amaj7               
Let's set it off cause a riot throw a Molotov
G#m7                              Amaj7   
Somebody told me them pirates had got lost
A                                     
'cause we've been off them slave ships
Amaj7       A                                 
Got our own pyramids write our own hieroglyphs
B                   A        
Just call this shit HiiiPower
B                      A        
Yeah nothing less than HiiiPower


[Chorus]
C#m                               A      
Five star dishes food for thought bitches
                                A             
I mean the shit is Fred Hampton on your campus
                 B   A        
You can't resist his HiiiPower
           B            C#m       B
Throw your hands up for HiiiPower ■
C#m                
Thug life thug life


[End]