[00:15.44]Uhh
[00:20.42]Pushin drop-tops, Stacy Lattisaw tapes, the 80's had us all apes
[00:23.46]Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate
[00:25.41]That was a uncanny era, guns in my pants
[00:27.92]Yeah X-Clan hair, with dreads at the top of my fade
[00:30.50]Homicide and feds on the blocks where I played, b-ball
[00:33.24]That's when I wondered was I here for the cause, or be-cause
[00:36.26]Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto
[00:37.81]Was told to stay strong and I could beat the Devil
[00:41.18]Cause yo, I used to play Apollo balcony seats
[00:42.90]Watchin ****** swing razors in the front row, then out in the streets
[00:45.28]The car show, 560's, chemical afros
[00:48.80]Acuras pumpin Super Lover Cee and Casanova
[00:51.46]Live chicks be, asses bustin out of they clothes
[00:53.68]Wearin lip gloss, big door knockers pealin they earlobes
[00:56.71]So where them years go? Where the old gold beers and cheers go?
[00:59.90]But now them shorties here doe, so
[01:01.53]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[01:04.22]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[01:06.79]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[01:09.07]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time
[01:11.97]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[01:14.72]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[01:17.17]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[01:19.45]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right?
[01:21.99]Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull triggers
[01:24.74]in army boots, yellin "Join the armed forces!"
[01:27.02]We lost the Vietnam War, intoxicated poisons
[01:29.50]Needles in arms of veterans instead of bigger fortunes
[01:32.05]There's still a lot of nigger callin in the coorporate offices
[01:34.72]War in the ghetto, we crabs in a barrel, they torture us
[01:37.33]They won't be servin the beast too long
[01:39.19]The murderers wearin police uniforms, confederate flags I burn
[01:42.44]Beat Street breakers were dancin to the music I chose
[01:44.90]And Peachtree Atlantic crackheads was tootin they nose
[01:47.53]in frozen corners of Chicago, loaded up Llama's children
[01:50.83]with fo'-fo's, and double-revolvers
[01:52.66]We devil incarnates, headed for jail
[01:54.54]Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin us killed
[01:57.72]Your paper money was the death of Christ
[01:59.84]And all these shorties comin up just resurrect your life
[02:02.22]It's like a cycle
[02:03.08]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[02:05.98]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[02:08.33]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[02:10.78]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time
[02:13.51]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[02:16.19]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[02:18.52]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[02:20.95]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right?
[02:23.68]****** used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up
[02:26.40]That's when we were lied to, buyin hair products
[02:28.77]Back before my generation, when our blackness started disintegratin
[02:32.30]'til awareness started penetratin
[02:34.24]The styles come from prison, they used potatoes makin liquor
[02:37.26]just to prove we some creative ******
[02:39.06]Turnin nothin into somethin, is God work
[02:41.38]And you get nothin without struggle and hard work
[02:43.74]War is necessary to my ****** in chains
[02:45.74]From Greene to Sing-Sing, I'm wantin y'all to know one thing
[02:49.06]The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does
[02:51.50]Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves
[02:54.30]Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you
[02:57.11]Even when all else fail, God support you
[02:59.92]I done it, got God Son on my stomach
[03:01.86]My heart and my lungs was affected from Henny's and gettin blunted
[03:04.74]Do your body right and it loves you back
[03:06.93]You only get one life, and yo because of that
[03:09.64]I'm still blazin, goin out for the cause
[03:11.90]Still rockin stockin caps, not for the waves, obeyin no laws
[03:14.93]And it's like that
[03:15.60]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[03:17.76]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[03:20.21]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[03:22.60]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time
[03:25.31]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[03:27.96]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[03:30.50]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[03:32.80]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right?
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