Doo Rags

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[00:19.92] Pushin' drop-tops, Stacy Lattisaw tapes, the '80s had us all apes
[00:23.31] Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate
[00:25.25] That was a uncanny era, guns in my pants, yeah
[00:28.04] X-Clan hair, with dreads at the top of my fade
[00:30.58] Homicidal feds on the blocks where I played b-ball
[00:33.25] That's when I wondered was I here for the cause or because
[00:36.09] 'Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto
[00:37.93] Was told to stay strong and I could beat the devil
[00:40.48] 'Cause yo, I used to play Apollo balcony seats
[00:43.03] Watchin' niggas swing razors in the front row
[00:45.28] Then out in the streets, the car show, 560's, chemical Afros
[00:49.15] Acuras pumpin' Super Lover Cee and Casanova
[00:51.03] Live chicks be asses bustin' out of they clothes
[00:53.67] Wearin' lip gloss, big door knockers peelin' they earlobes
[00:56.67] So where them years go?
[00:57.85] Where the Old Gold beers and cheers go?
[00:59.96] But now them shorties here though, so
[01:01.56] The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[01:04.55] Rikers Island buses still packed, what's the word?
[01:06.66] The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb
[01:09.02] And I'm still enjoyin' life's ride; one mo' time
[01:11.80] The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[01:14.73] Rikers Island buses still packed, what's the word?
[01:16.85] The drinkers still drinkin', or puffin' they herb
[01:19.34] And I'm still enjoyin' life's ride, right?
[01:21.79] Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull triggers
[01:24.63] In army boots, yellin', "Join the armed forces!"
[01:26.92] We lost the Vietnam War, intoxicated poisons
[01:29.44] Needles in arms of veterans instead of bigger fortunes
[01:32.00] There's still a lot of nigga crawlin' in the corporate offices
[01:34.78] War in the ghetto, we crabs in a barrel, they torture us
[01:37.17] They won't be servin' the beast too long
[01:39.02] The murderers wearin' police uniforms, Confederate flags I burn
[01:42.33] Beat Street breakers were dancin' to the music I chose
[01:44.72] And Peachtree, Atlanta crackheads was tootin' they nose
[01:47.31] In frozen corners of Chicago
[01:49.29] Loaded-up llamas, children with fo'-fo's and double-revolvers
[01:52.51] We devil incarnates headed for jail
[01:54.33] Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin' us killed
[01:57.67] Your paper money was the death of Christ
[01:59.65] And all these shorties comin' up just resurrect your life
[02:02.12] It's like a cycle, yo
[02:03.02] The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[02:06.08] Rikers Island buses still packed, what's the word?
[02:08.20] The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb
[02:10.50] And I'm still enjoyin' life's ride; one mo' time
[02:13.23] The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[02:15.96] Rikers Island buses still packed, what's the word?
[02:18.47] The drinkers still drinkin', or puffin' they herb
[02:20.89] And I'm still enjoyin' life's ride, right?
[02:23.42] Niggas used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up
[02:26.28] That's when we were lied to, buyin' hair products
[02:28.88] Back before my generation, when our blackness started disintegratin' 'til awareness started penetratin'
[02:34.16] The styles come from prison, they used potatoes makin' liquor
[02:36.93] Just to prove we some creative niggas
[02:38.73] Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work
[02:41.24] And you get nothin' without struggle and hard work
[02:43.57] War is necessary to my niggas in chains
[02:45.85] From Green to Sing-Sing I'm wantin' y'all to know one thing
[02:48.99] The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does
[02:51.38] Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah, it's wrong, but God loves
[02:54.23] Take one step toward him, He takes two toward you
[02:57.16] Even when all else fail, God support you
[02:59.80] I done it, got "God's Son" on my stomach
[03:01.77] My heart and my lungs was affected
[03:03.18] From Henny's and gettin' blunted
[03:04.71] Do your body right and it loves you back
[03:06.77] You only get one life, and yo, because of that
[03:09.40] I'm still blazin', goin' out for the cause
[03:11.75] Still rockin' stockin' caps, not for the waves, obeyin' no laws
[03:14.64] And it's like that
[03:15.05] The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[03:17.97] Rikers Island buses still packed, what's the word?
[03:20.07] The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb
[03:22.44] And I'm still enjoyin' life's ride; one mo' time
[03:25.07] The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[03:28.17] Rikers Island buses still packed, what's the word?
[03:30.28] The drinkers still drinkin', or puffin' they herb
[03:32.63] And I'm still enjoyin' life's ride, right?
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