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I by Kendrick Lamar
I
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 3rd fret
[Intro]
Am Dm x2
Play the chord variations like this:
Am: Dm:
e|--------| e|1-1-3-1-|
B|1-1-0-1-| B|3-3-3-3-|
G|2-2-2-2-| G|2-2-2-2-|
D|2-2-2-2-| D|--------|
A|--------| A|--------|
E|--------| E|--------|
[Intro]
Am7
I done been through a whole lot
Dm7
Trial, tribulations, but I know God
Am7
Satan wanna put me in a bow-tie
Dm7
Praying that the holy water don't go dry, yeah yeah
Am7
As I look around me
Dm7
So many motherfuckers wanna down me
Am7
But ain't no nigga never drown me
Dm7
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
[Hook]
Am7
And I love myself
Dm7
(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
Am7
I love myself
Dm7
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)
Am7
I love myself
Dm7
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
Am7
I love my-self
Dm7
(One day at the time, sun gone shine)
[Verse 2]
Am7
Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy)
Dm7
What you gone do? (What you gone do?)
Am7
Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)
Dm7
Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)
Am7
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
Dm7
On my sleeve let the runway start
Am7
You know the miserable do love company
Dm7
What do you want from me and my scars?
F
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
G
How many times our potential was anonymous?
F
How many times the city making me promises?
E
So I promise this
[Hook]
Am7
And I love myself
Dm7
(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
Am7
I love myself
Dm7
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)
Am7
I love myself
Dm7
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
Am7
I love my-self
Dm7
(One day at the time, sun gone shine)
[Verse 1]
Am7
They wanna say there's a war outside and a bomb in the street
Dm7
And a gun in the hood and a mob of police
Am7
And a rock on the corner and a line full of fiends
Dm7
And a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme, yup
Am7 Dm7
These days of frustration keep y'all on ducking rotation
Am7 Dm7
I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis
F
Dreams of realities peace
G
Blow steam in the face of the beast
F
The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now
E
The strong in me, I still smile
[Hook]
Am7
And I love myself
Dm7
(The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
Am7
I love myself
Dm7
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)
Am7
I love myself
Dm7
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
Am7
I love my-self
Dm7
(One day at the time, sun gone shine)
Am7 G
Walk my barefeet (Walk my barefeet)
D/F# F
Down, down valley peak (Down, down valley peak)
Am7 G
I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)
D/F# F
I keep my heart undone (My heart undone)
[Bridge]
Am7
And I love myself
G
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
D/F#
I love myself
F
(But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don't mind)
Am7
I love myself
G
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
D/F#
I love my-self
F -mute
(One day at the time, sun gone shine)
[Verse 3]
Am7
I went to war last night
D/F#
With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic
I'm a do it 'til I get it right
Am7
I went to war last night
D/F#
I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
Duckin' every other blessin', l can never see the message
Am7
I can never take the lead, I can never bob and weave
For my nigga that be letting 'em annihilate me
D/F#
And the sound is moving in a meteor speed
From a 100 to a billion lay my body in the street
Am7
Keep my money in the ceiling let my mama know I'm free
Give my story to the children and the lesson they can read
D/F#
And the glory to the feeling of the only unseen
Am7
Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!"
[Spoken]
D/F#
I lost my head, I must've misread what the good book said
Am7
Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside
D/F#
Give myself again 'til the well runs dry
[Outro]
Am7 G D/F# F
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version 2
Tuning: E A D G B E
The first section and the last 2 sections are spoken (no instrumentation).
Tab for chords throughout:
Cm Fm
e|------------------------------------------------|
B|4-4-6-4-4-4-6-4-------9--9-11--9--9--9-11--9----|
G|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5------10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10----|
D|5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5------10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10----|
A|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-------8--8--8--8--8--8--8--9----|
E|------------------------------------------------|
[Intro 1] (Shouted)
(Is this mic on? Hey!)
(Hey! Hey! Turn the mic up! Is the mic on or not? I want the mic.)
(He bringin' up nobody, nobody, nobody.)
(But the number one record in the world.)
(He done traveled all over the world.)
(He came back, just to bring you some games.)
[Intro 2]
Cm Fm
Uh!
Cm Fm
one-two one-two what's happenin', fool?
[Verse 1]
Cm
I done been through a whole lot
Fm
Trial, tribulations, but I know God
Cm
The Devil wanna put me in a bow-tie
Fm
Prayin' that the holy water don't go dry, yay-yay
Cm
As I look around me
Fm
So many motherfucka wanna down me
Cm
But ain't no nigga never drown me
Fm
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
[Chorus]
Cm
(And I love myself)
Fm
Huh! Uh, when you're lookin' at me, a tell me what you see?
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
Ah! I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police.
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
Illuminated by the hand of God, boy, don't seem shy
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
One day at a time
[Verse 2]
Cm
They wanna say it's a war outside, bomb in the street
Fm
Gun in the hood, mob of police
Cm
Rock on the corner with a line for the fiend
Fm
And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scheme
Cm
Uh!
Fm Cm
These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation
Fm Cm
Yeah, I duck these cold faces, post up fi-fie-fo-fum basis
Dreams of reality's peace
Fm
Blow steam in the face of the beast
Cm
Sky could fall down, wind could cry now
N.C.
Look at me motherfucka I smile -
[Chorus]
Cm
(And I love myself)
Fm
Huh! Uh, when you're lookin' at me, a tell me what you see?
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
Ah! I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police.
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
Uh! Illuminated ... All y'all come to the front!
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
[Verse 3]
Cm Fm
(Crazy, what you gon' do?)
Cm Fm
Lift up your head an' keep movin', (Keep moving) turn the mic up
(Haunt you)
Cm
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
Fm
On my sleeve, let the runway start
Cm
You know the miserable do love company
Fm
What do you want from me and my scars?
Ab
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
Bb
How many times our potential was anonymous?
Ab
How many times the city makin' me promises?
N.C.
So I promise this, nigga
[Chorus]
Cm
(And I love myself)
Fm
Uh, when you're lookin' at me, a tell me what you see?
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
Ah! I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police.
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
Huh! Illuminated by the hand of God, boy, don't seem shy
Cm
(I love myself)
Fm
[Verse 4]
Cm Fm
Huh! (Walk my barefeet) Huh! (Walk my barefeet)
Cm Fm
Huh! (Down, down valley peak) Huh! (Down, down valley peak)
Cm Fm
Huh! (I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum) Huh! (Fee-fi-fo-fum)
Cm Fm
Huh! (I keep my heart undone) Huh! (My heart undone)
N.C.
One, two three...
[Bridge]
Cm Bb
I went to war last night
Ab
With a automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic
Gm
I'ma do it till I get it right
Cm Bb
I went to war last night (Night, night, night, night)
Ab
I been dealing with depression ever since a adolescent
Gm
Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message
Cm
I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave
Bb
From a negative and lettin' them annihilate me
Ab
And it's evident I'm movin' at a meteor speed
Gm
Finna run into a building, lay my body...
Cm Bb
Ab Gm
[Outro 1] (Spoken)
Not on my, not while I'm up here
Not on my time, kill the music, not on my time
We could save that shit for the streets
We could save that shit, this for the kids bro
2015, niggas tired of playin' victim dog
Niggas ain't trying to play vic— TuTu, how many niggas we done lost?
Yan-Yan, how many we done lost?
No for real, answer the que—, how many niggas we done lost bro?
This— this year alone
Exactly, so we ain't got time to waste time my nigga
Niggas gotta make time, bro
The judge make time, you know that, the judge make time, right?
The judge make time so it ain’t shit
It shouldn’t be shit for us to come out here and appreciate the little bit of life we got left, dog
On the dead homies, Charlie P, you know that bro
You know that
It’s mando, right, it's mando
And I— And I say this because I love you niggas man
I love all my niggas bro
Exac— enough said, enough said
And we gon' get back to the show and move on, because that shit petty my nigga
Mic check, mic check, mic check, mic check, mic check
We gon' do some acapella shit before we get back to-
All my niggas listen, listen to this:
[Outro 2] (Spoken)
I promised Dave I'd never use the phrase "fuck nigga"
He said, "Think about what you saying: "Fuck niggas"
No better than Samuel on the Django
No better than a white man with slave boats"
Sound like I needed some soul searching
My Pops gave me some game in real person
Retraced my steps on what they never taught me
Did my homework fast before government caught me
So I'ma dedicate this one verse to Oprah
On how the infamous, sensitive N-word control us
So many artists gave her an explanation to hold us
Well, this is my explanation straight from Ethiopia
N-E-G-U-S definition: royalty; king royalty - wait listen
N-E-G-U-S description: black emperor, king, ruler, now let me finish
The history books overlook the word and hide it
America tried to make it to a house divided
The homies don't recognize we been usin' it wrong
So I'ma break it down and put my game in a song
N-E-G-U-S, say it with me, or say it no more
Black stars can come and get me
Take it from Oprah Winfrey, tell her she right on time
Kendrick Lamar, by far, realest Negus alive
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version 3
Tuning:Standard
[Verse & Chorus & pretty much whole song except Pre-chorus]
Cm7 Fm7
(I use thumb for low C)
e|--8--8--8--8--------8--8--8---8--------------------------------------------|
B|--8--8--8--8--------9--9--h11-9--------------------------------------------|
G|--8-h10-8--8--------8--8--8---8--------------------------------------------|
D|--8--8--8--8--------10-10-10--10-------------------------------------------|
A|--10-10-10-10-------8--8--8---8--------------------------------------------|
E|--8--8--8--8---------------------------------------------------------------|
[Pre-chorus]
G# B G# G B You can play this in time with 'I love myself'
e|--4----6----4----3--6------------------------------------------------------|
B|--4----6----4----3--6------------------------------------------------------|
G|--5----7----5----4--7------------------------------------------------------|
D|--6----8----6----5--8-----------8h10--8h10--8h10--8h10---------------------|
A|--6----8----6----5--8------------------------------------------------------|
E|--4----6----4----3--6------------------------------------------------------|
Extra: Fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---8h10--8h10--8h10--8h10-------10h13--10h13--10h13--10h13-----------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
This is a world premiere!
This is a world premiere!
I done been through a whole lot
Trial, tribulation, but I know God
Satan wanna put me in a bow tie
Pray that the holy water don't go dry, yeah yeah
As I look around me
So many motherfuckers wanna down me
But an enemigo never drown me
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
And I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
I love myself
(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)
Everybody lookin' at you crazy (crazy!)
What you gonna do? (what you gonna do?)
Lift up your head and keep moving (keep moving)
Or let the paranoia haunt you (haunt you)?
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
You know the miserable do love company
What do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
How many times my potential was anonymous?
How many times the city making me promises?
So I promise this
I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
I love myself
(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)
They wanna say it's a war outside and a bomb in the street
And a gun in the hood, and a mob of police
And a rock on the corner, and a line for the fiend
And a bottle full of lean, and a model on the scene, yup
These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation
I duck these cold faces, post up fi-fie-fo-fum basis
Dreams of reality's peace
Blow steam in the face of the beast
The sky could fall down, the wind could cry now
The strong in me, I still smile
I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
I love myself
(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)
Walk my bare feet (walk my bare feet)
Down, down valley deep (down, down valley deep)
Fi-fie-fo-fum (fi-fie-fo-fum) (I love myself)
My heart undone (my heart undone)(I love myself)
The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs
(I love myself)
But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind
(I love myself)
He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide
(I love myself)
One day at a time, sun gon' shine
I went to war last night
With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic
I'ma do it 'til I get it right
I went to war last night
I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
Duckin' every other blessin' I can never see the message
I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave
From a negative and letting them annihilate me
And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed
Finna run into a building, lay my body in the street
Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm free
Give my story to the children and a lesson they can read
And the glory to the feeling of the holy unseen
Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!"
I lost my head
I must've misread what the good book said
Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside
Give myself again 'til the well runs dry (i)
| h hammer-on
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version 4
[Intro]
Eb Ab
e|----------------------|-8--8-8--8--8-8--8-8-8--8--8--8--|
B|-8--8-8--8----8--8----|-9--9-9--11p9-9--9-9-9--9--9--9--|
G|-8--8-8--10p8-8--8----|-8--8-8--8--8-8--8-8-8--10-10-8--|
D|-8--8-8--8----8--8-10-|---------------------------------|
A|----------------------|---------------------------------|
E|----------------------|---------------------------------|
As I look around me
e|-13(15)--13(15)--13(15)(13)-11h13-11~~~--|
B|-----------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
[Chorus]
I love myself (The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
e|--------8-8--|-------------8-----------------|-------------------------|
B|--------8-8--|-11(13)-11-8---11-8------------|-------------------------|
G|-10(12)------|--------------------11-10-8----|----8-10-8h10p8----8-----|
D|-------------|----------------------------10-|-10--------------10-10---|
A|-------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------|
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
e|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|-11(13)~--11-8-----------8-------------------------------|
G|---------------10(12)10---10----8-10-8h10p8---8----------|
D|----------------------------10--------------10-10--------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|-11(13)~-(13)(11)-----------------------------------|
G|------------------8h10p8-8~----8-10--8h10p8---8-----|
D|----------------------------10--------------10-10---|
A|----------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------|
(One day at a time, sun gonna shine)
e|------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-11(13)~-(13)(11)(13)(11)----8------------------------------|
G|--------------------------10---10(12)10----8-10--10/12------|
D|----------------------------------------10-------------10---|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 1]
Cm7
Everybody lookin' at you crazy (crazy!)
Fm7
What you gonna do? (what you gonna do?)
Cm7
Lift up your head and keep moving (keep moving)
Fm7
Or let the paranoia haunt you (haunt you)?
Cm7
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
Fm7
On my sleeve, let the runway start
Cm7
You know the miserable do love company
Fm7
What do you want from me and my scars?
[Bridge]
Ab Bb
Everybody lack confident, Everybody lack confident
e|-------------------------|--------------------------|
B|--------------8--8---8---|--------------8--8--------|
G|--------------5--5-------|--------------7--7--------|
D|--------------6--6-------|--------------8--8--------|
A|-------------------------|--------------------------|
E|-------------------------|--------------------------|
Bb Ab
How many times my potential was anonymous? How many times the city making me promises?
e|------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------|-8--8----------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------|-5--5----------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------|-6--6----------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G
So I promise this I love myself
e|-------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------8-5-----------|
D|-5-8-----------------5---------------|
A|-------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------|
[Chorus]
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
e|-------------8-----------------|-------------------------|
B|-11(13)-11-8---11-8------------|-------------------------|
G|--------------------11-10-8----|----8-10-8h10p8----8-----|
D|----------------------------10-|-10--------------10-10---|
A|-------------------------------|-------------------------|
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------|
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
e|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|-11(13)~--11-8-----------8-------------------------------|
G|---------------10(12)10---10----8-10-8h10p8---8----------|
D|----------------------------10--------------10-10--------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|-11(13)~-(13)(11)-----------------------------------|
G|------------------8h10p8-8~----8-10--8h10p8---8-----|
D|----------------------------10--------------10-10---|
A|----------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------|
(One day at a time, sun gonna shine)
e|------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-11(13)~-(13)(11)(13)(11)----8------------------------------|
G|--------------------------10---10(12)10----8-10--10/12------|
D|----------------------------------------10-------------10---|
A|------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------|
This is a world premiere!
This is a world premiere!
I done been through a whole lot
Trial, tribulation, but I know God
Satan wanna put me in a bow tie
Pray that the holy water don't go dry, yeah yeah
As I look around me
So many motherfuckers wanna down me
But an enemigo never drown me
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
And I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
I love myself
(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)
Everybody lookin' at you crazy (crazy!)
What you gonna do? (what you gonna do?)
Lift up your head and keep moving (keep moving)
Or let the paranoia haunt you (haunt you)?
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start
You know the miserable do love company
What do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
How many times my potential was anonymous?
How many times the city making me promises?
So I promise this
I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
I love myself
(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)
They wanna say it's a war outside and a bomb in the street
And a gun in the hood, and a mob of police
And a rock on the corner, and a line for the fiend
And a bottle full of lean, and a model on the scene, yup
These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation
I duck these cold faces, post up fi-fie-fo-fum basis
Dreams of reality's peace
Blow steam in the face of the beast
The sky could fall down, the wind could cry now
The strong in me, I still smile
I love myself
(The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)
I love myself
(But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind)
I love myself
(He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
I love myself
(One day at a time, sun gon' shine)
Walk my bare feet (walk my bare feet)
Down, down valley deep (down, down valley deep)
Fi-fie-fo-fum (fi-fie-fo-fum) (I love myself)
My heart undone (my heart undone)(I love myself)
The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs
(I love myself)
But it can do what it want whenever it want, I don't mind
(I love myself)
He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide
(I love myself)
One day at a time, sun gon' shine
I went to war last night
With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic
I'ma do it 'til I get it right
I went to war last night
I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
Duckin' every other blessin' I can never see the message
I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave
From a negative and letting them annihilate me
And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed
Finna run into a building, lay my body in the street
Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm free
Give my story to the children and a lesson they can read
And the glory to the feeling of the holy unseen
Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!"
I lost my head
I must've misread what the good book said
Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside
Give myself again 'til the well runs dry (i)
| p Pull-off
| (n) Ghost note
| h Hammer-on
| ~ Vibrato
| / Slide up
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