Song: Reality Check Band: O.P.M. Album: Menace to Sobriety Year: 2000 Tabber: beranger80@hotmail.com Note: sorry if the lyrics are not 100% correct but it's really difficult to understand for foreign hears Intro (0:00) B Hamonics riff (0:05) D E B e-----<12>-------|---------<12>-------| b----------<12>--|--------------------| g--<7>-----------|------<7>-----<12>--| d----------------|--<7>---------------| a----------------|--------------------| e----------------|--------------------| x2 x2 Speech (0:13)

^BIt's a Reality check from the streets of Southern California ^DWith brothas always smokin' on the doja ^EThe O.P.M., damn we rollin' ^BHand on the mic till we decide about the sick life

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^DCalifornia where I raised till this very day ^EHell to pay for the ways of the blaze ^BEveryday a hundred miles an hour ^BCause my soul's been devoured ^DNever looked up above and push came to shove ^EAs it usually does, keepin' with these thugs ^BDoin' all of these drugs with no means of direction ^BInfection, but here's my objection

Verse (0:46)

^DRejection by your whole congregation ^EWith no empathy for my situation ^BNo place in society that's my reality ^BAngry don't know who's the enemy ^DI'm in deep, underneath the streets ^EIt's hard to creep from city to city With all these hitters and the heat ^BKillin' me stealin from me, makes no sense to me ^BSo I keep it tight with the homies in the family

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^DHere's a reality check from the streets of california ^EKeep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo ^BThings ain't always what they seem ^BThings ain't always what they seem ^DHere's a reality check from the streets of california ^EKeep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo ^BThings ain't always what they seem ^BThings ain't always what they seem

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^DWe're all smokin, tryin' broken homes ^EChokin' locos, for pesos, slingin' dope by the case os ^BSmokin' cocos, laced with dope and opium ^BCities for niggaz causin' fuckin' pandemonium ^DSpoiled by suburbia, Cottonmouth what then all the man ^EFormin' corny reputations ^BBustin' tracks from Kid Kreation me and the artists ^BWho performed the hardest collaberations

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^DBorn and raised in the golden state Don't invite no plates servin' up some dinner ^EFor southern county serial sinner ^BImperial, superial lyrical In again, see the opium den, We see the man who posed prohibitin' ^DAnd drop a eight to eliminate a peaceful ^EEvolution of man for your political pollution ^BThere's no solution for these county criminal minds ^BJust subliminal rhymes, hypnotizing mankind

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Bridge (2:37)

^DHere's a reality check from the streets of califonia

Verse (2:43)

^ESee california the major growth industry Are private security and penitentiary ^DRisin from the climatose cold war economies That's why the pigs got my homies down on their knees ^ELined up against the walls, so the community can see That the po po won't go away, so please now ^DOpen up your eyes and realize The land of sunny skies, disguised as paradise, is a li^Ee

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^DHere's a reality check from the streets of california ^EKeep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo ^BThings ain't always what they seem ^BThings ain't always what they seem (from here play both riffs) ^DHere's a reality check from the streets of california ^EKeep your eyes wide open to what's really goin' on yo ^BThings ain't always what they seem ^BThings ain't always what they seem

Opm - Reality check