Doo Rags

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Pushin' drop-tops, Stacy Lattisaw tapes, the 80's had us all apes

Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate

That was a uncanny era, guns in my pants

Yeah, X Clan hair, with dreads at the top of my fade

Homicide an' Feds on the block where I played, b-ball

That's when I wondered was I here for the cause, or be-cause

'Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto

Was told to stay strong an' I could beat the devil

'Cause yo, I used to play Apollo Balcony seats

Watchin' **** swing racers in the front row, then out in the streets

The car show, 560's, chemical afros

Acuras pumpin' Super Lover Cee an' Casanova

Live chicks be, asses bustin' out of they clothes

Wearin' lip gloss, big door knockers pealin' they earlobes

So where them years go? Where the old gold beers an' cheers go?

But now them shorties here though, so

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island busters still packed, what's the word?

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, one mo' time

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island busters still packed, what's the word?

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, right

Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull triggers

In army boots, yellin', "Join the armed forces"

We lost the Vietnam War, intoxicated poisons

Needles in arms of veterans instead of bigger fortunes

There's still a lot of naked callin' in the corporate offices

War in the ghetto, we crabs in a barrel, they torture us

They won't be servin' the beast too long

The murderers wearin' police uniforms, confederate flags I burn

Beat street breakers who dances to the music I chose

An' Peachtree Atlantic heads was tootin' they nose

In frozen corners of Chicago, loaded up Llama's children

With 44.s an' double revolvers

We devil incarnates, headed for jail

Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin' us killed

Your paper money was the death of Christ

An' all these shorties comin' up, just resurrect your life

It's like a cycle

Yo the doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island busters still packed, what's the word?

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, one mo' time

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island busters still packed, what's the word?

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, right

**** used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up

That's when we were lied to, buyin' hair products

Back before my generation, when our blackness started disintegratin'

'Til awareness started penetratin'

The styles come from prison, they used potatoes makin' liquor

Just to prove we some creative ****

Turnin' nothin' into somethin', is God work

An' you get nothin' without struggle an' hard work

War is necessary to my **** in chains

From Greene to Sing-Sing, I'm wantin' y'all to know one thing

The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does

Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah, it's wrong, but God loves

Take one step toward him, he takes two towards you

Even when all else fail, God support you

I done it, got God son on my stomach

My heart an' my lungs was affected from Hennys an' gettin' blunted

Do your body right an' it loves you back

You only get one life, an' yo, because of that

I'm still blazin', goin' out for the cause

Still rockin', stockin', caps not for the waves, obeyin' no laws

An' it's like that

Yo the doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island busters still packed, what's the word?

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, one mo' time

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island busters still packed, what's the word?

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they herb

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, right