Doo Rags

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 clean hair with dreads at the top of my fade Homicide and feds on the blocks where I played b ball That's wehn i wondered was i here for the cause or be cause cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto was told to stay strong and I could beat the Devil cause yo I used to play Apollo balcony seats watchin niggaz swing razors in the front row then out in the streets the car show 560's chemical afros acuras pumpin super lover cee and casanova live chicks be asses bustin out of they clothes wearin up gloss big goor knockers pealin they ealobes so where them years go where the old god beers and cheers go but now them shorties here doe so The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs Riker's island buses still packed what's the word they drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they herd and I'm still enjoyin life's ride one more time The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs Riker's island buses still packed what's the word they drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they herd and I'm still enjoyin life's ride right Political thugs in shark shuits 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 crawlin in the carpet 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 polices uniforms confederate flags I Burn Beat street breaker were dacin to the music I chose and Peachtree atlantic crackheads was tootin they nose in frozen corners of Chicago loaded up Llama's children with fo fo's and double revolvers we devil incarnates heaed for jail where shell gas company in South Africa be havin us killed your paper money was the death of Christ And all these shotries comin up just resurrct your life It's like a cycle The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs Riker's island buses still packed what's the word they drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they herd and I'm still enjoyin life's ride one more time The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs Riker's island buses still packed what's the word they drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they herd and I'm still enjoyin life's ride right Niggaz 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 niggaz Turnin nothin into somethin is God work And you get nothin without struggle and hard work War is necessary to my niggaz 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 toward you Even when all else fail God support you I done it got God sun on my stomach My heart and my lungs was affected from Henny's and gettin blunted Do your body right and it loves you back You only get one life and yo because of that I'm still blazin goin out for the cause Still rockin stockin caps not for the waves obeyin no laws And it's like that The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs Riker's island buses still packed what's the word they drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they herd and I'm still enjoyin life's ride one more time The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs Riker's island buses still packed what's the word they drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they herd and I'm still enjoyin life's ride right