[00:15.260]Uhh
[00:17.142]Pushin drop-tops, Stacy Lattisaw tapes, the 80's had us all apes
[00:23.860]Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate
[00:25.900]That was a uncanny era, guns in my pants
[00:28.319]Yeah X-Clan hair, with dreads at the top of my fade
[00:30.868]Homicide and feds on the blocks where I played, b-ball
[00:33.805]That's when I wondered was I here for the cause, or be-cause
[00:36.396]Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto
[00:38.148]Was told to stay strong and I could beat the Devil
[00:40.723]Cause yo, I used to play Apollo balcony seats
[00:43.324]Watchin niggaz swing razors in the front row, then out in the streets
[00:46.504]The car show, 560's, chemical afros
[00:49.147]Acuras pumpin Super Lover Cee and Casanova
[00:51.764]Live chicks be, asses bustin out of they clothes
[00:54.206]Wearin lip gloss, big door knockers pealin they earlobes
[00:56.955]So where them years go? Where the old gold beers and cheers go?
[01:00.263]But now them shorties here doe, so
[01:02.044]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[01:04.764]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[01:07.040]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[01:09.630]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time
[01:12.052]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[01:14.819]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[01:17.163]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[01:19.884]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right?
[01:21.971]Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull triggers
[01:25.163]in army boots, yellin "Join the armed forces!"
[01:27.531]We lost the Vietnam War, intoxicated poisons
[01:29.923]Needles in arms of veterans instead of bigger fortunes
[01:32.699]There's still a lot of nigger callin in the coorporate offices
[01:35.099]War in the ghetto, we crabs in a barrel, they torture us
[01:37.779]They won't be servin the beast too long
[01:39.835]The murderers wearin police uniforms, confederate flags I burn
[01:42.878]Beat Street breakers were dancin to the music I chose
[01:45.403]And Peachtree Atlantic crackheads was tootin they nose
[01:47.972]in frozen corners of Chicago, loaded up Llama's children
[01:51.187]with fo'-fo's, and double-revolvers
[01:53.251]We devil incarnates, headed for jail
[01:55.075]Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin us killed
[01:58.107]Your paper money was the death of Christ
[02:00.253]And all these shorties comin up just resurrect your life
[02:02.546]It's like a cycle
[02:03.707]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[02:06.291]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[02:08.578]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[02:11.067]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time
[02:13.811]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[02:16.370]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[02:18.925]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[02:21.418]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right?
[02:24.018]Niggaz used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up
[02:26.682]That's when we were lied to, buyin hair products
[02:29.266]Back before my generation, when our blackness started disintegratin
[02:32.682]'til awareness started penetratin
[02:34.451]The styles come from prison, they used potatoes makin liquor
[02:37.466]just to prove we some creative niggaz
[02:39.242]Turnin nothin into somethin, is God work
[02:41.578]And you get nothin without struggle and hard work
[02:44.284]War is necessary to my niggaz in chains
[02:46.411]From Greene to Sing-Sing, I'm wantin y'all to know one thing
[02:49.490]The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does
[02:51.674]Even if you murdered or robbed, yeah it's wrong, but God loves
[02:54.882]Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you
[02:57.502]Even when all else fail, God support you
[03:00.138]I done it, got God Son on my stomach
[03:02.549]My heart and my lungs was affected from Henny's and gettin blunted
[03:05.122]Do your body right and it loves you back
[03:07.442]You only get one life, and yo because of that
[03:09.914]I'm still blazin, goin out for the cause
[03:12.026]Still rockin stockin caps, not for the waves, obeyin no laws
[03:15.530]And it's like that
[03:16.354]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[03:18.114]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[03:20.418]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[03:22.723]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time
[03:25.581]The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
[03:28.353]Riker's Island bustin, still packed, what's the word?
[03:30.785]The drinkers stay drinkin, or puffin they herb
[03:33.337]And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right?