DNA by Kendrick Lamar
Key: CC | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


Verse 1
N.C.
I got, I got, I got, I got
Gb5                    E5      Gb5 G5 
Loyalty, got royalty inside my DN--A
E5      Gb5                                E5      Gb5 G5 
Cocaine quarter piece, got war and peace inside my DN--A
E5    Gb5                           E5      Gb5 G5 
I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my DN--A
E5    Gb5                              E5      Gb5 G5 
I got hustle though, ambition, flow, inside my DN--A
E5    Gb5                                   E5  Gb5  G5 
I was born like this, since one like this immaculate conception
E5     Gb5                                   E5  Gb5      G5 
I transform like this, perform like this was Yeshua's new weapon
E5      Gb5                           E5       Gb5     G5 
I don’t contemplate, I meditate, then off your fucking head
E5        Gb5                            
This that put-the-kids-to-bed, this that 
Verse 2
N.C.
I got, I got, I got, I got
Gb5                                    E5    Gb5 G5 
Realness, I just kill shit 'cause it's in my DN--A
E5    Gb5                             E5    Gb5 G5 
I got millions, I got riches buildin’ in my DN--A
E5    Gb5                          E5      Gb5 G5
I got dark, I got evil, that rot inside my DN--A
E5    Gb5                             E5      Gb5 G5
I got off, I got troublesome, heart inside my DN--A
E5     Gb5                            E5    Gb5    G5
I just win again, then win again like Wimbledon, I serve
E5           Gb5                              E5    Gb5    G5
Yeah, that's him again, the sound that engine in is like a bird
E5      Gb5                         E5    Gb5      G5
You see fireworks and Corvette tire skrrt the boulevard
E5     Gb5                            
I know how you work, I know just who you are
Verse 3
N.C.
See, you's a, you's a, you's a
Gb5                                  E5        Gb5 G5 
Bitch, your hormones prolly switch inside your DN--A
E5      Gb5                        E5        Gb5 G5 
Problem is, all that sucker shit inside your DN--A
E5    Gb5                         E5        Gb5 G5 
Daddy prolly snitched, heritage inside your DN--A
E5       Gb5                         E5   Gb5     G5 
Backbone don't exist, born outside a jellyfish, I gauge
E5      Gb5                            E5  Gb5      G5 
See, my pedigree most definitely don't tolerate the front
E5        Gb5                                     E5      Gb5    G5 
Shit I've been through prolly offend you, this is Paula’s oldest son
E5     Gb5                                    E5        Gb5      G5 
I know murder, conviction, burners, boosters, burglars, ballers, dead
  E5        Gb5                                  E5     Gb5   G5
Redemption, scholars, fathers dead with kids and I wish I was fed
   E5        Gb5                     N.C.
Forgiveness, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, soldier’s DNA
Verse 4
       Gb5                                  E5     Gb5    G5 
Born inside the beast, my expertise checked out in second grade
E5         Gb5                             E5     Gb5      G5 
When I was nine, on cell, motel, we didn't have nowhere to stay
   E5     Gb5                              E5       Gb5  G5 
At twenty-nine, I’ve done so well, hit cartwheel in my estate
E5           Gb5                            E5      Gb5  G5 
And I'm gon' shine like I'm supposed to antisocial, extrovert
E5       Gb5                                E5            Gb5      G5
And excellent mean the extra work and absentness what the fuck you heard
E5       Gb5                                      E5          Gb5        G5
And pessimists never struck my nerve and that’s a riff, gonna plead this case
E5            Gb5                          
The reason my power's here on earth
N.C.
Salute the truth, when the prophet say
Bridge
      Bb5    
I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA
(This is why I say that hip hop has done more damage to young African Americans than racism in recent years)
      Bb5                    Bb5
I got loyalty, got royalty inside my DNA
N.C.
(5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
N.C.
I got, this is my heritage, all I'm inheritin', money and power, the makin' of marriages
Outro
Bb5
Tell me somethin'
N.C.
You mothafuckas can't tell me nothin'
N.C.
I'd rather die than to listen to you
N.C.
My DNA not for imitation
N.C.
Your DNA an abomination
N.C.
This how it is when you're in the Matrix
N.C.
Dodgin' bullets, reapin' what you sow
N.C.
And stackin' up the footage, livin' on the go
N.C.
And sleepin' in a villa
N.C.
Sippin' from a Grammy and walkin' in the buildin'
N.C.
Diamond in the ceilin', marble on the floors
N.C.
Beach inside the window, peekin' out the window
N.C.
Baby in the pool, godfather goals
N.C.
Only Lord knows, I've been goin' hammer
N.C.
Dodgin' paparazzi, freakin' through the cameras
N.C.
Eat at Four Daughters, Brock wearin' sandals
N.C.
Yoga on a Monday, stretchin' to Nirvana
                         Db5   
Watchin' all the snakes, curvin' all the fakes
Eb5   C5                      
Phone never on, I don't conversate
Bb5
I don't compromise, I just penetrate
Bb5
Sex, money, murder—these are the breaks
                     Db5   
These are the times, level number 9
Eb5     C5                      
Look up in the sky, 10 is on the way
Bb5
Sentence on the way, killings on the way
N.C.
Motherfucker, I got winners on the way
-
Bb5
You ain't shit without a body on your belt
N.C.
You ain't shit without a ticket on your plate
N.C.
You ain't sick enough to pull it on yourself
N.C.
You ain't rich enough to hit the lot and skate
N.C.
Tell me when destruction gonna be my fate
N.C.
Gonna be your fate, gonna be our faith
N.C.
Peace to the world, let it rotate
N.C.
Sex, money, murder—our DNA