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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 |
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That was a uncanny era in my pants |
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Yeah X Clan hair with dreads at the top of my fade |
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Homicide an' Feds on the blocks where I played b-ball |
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That's when I wondered was I here for the cause or be-cause |
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'Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto |
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Was told to stay strong an' I could beat the devil |
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'Cause yo I used to play Apollo Balcony seats |
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Watchin' swing razors in the front row then out in the streets |
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The car show 560's chemical afros |
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Acuras pumpin' Super Lover Cee an' Casanova |
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Live chicks be bustin' out of they clothes |
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Wearin' lip gloss big door knockers pealin' they earlobes |
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So where them years go Where the old gold beers an' cheers go |
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But now them shorties here doe so |
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The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs |
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Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word |
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The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they |
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An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride one mo' time |
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The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs |
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Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word |
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The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they |
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An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride right |
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Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull |
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In army boots yellin "Join the armed forces" |
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We lost the Vietnam War intoxicated poisons |
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Needles in arms of veterans instead of bigger fortunes |
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There's still a lot of crawlin' in the carpet offices |
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War in the ghetto we crabs in a barrel they torture us |
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They won't be servin' the beast too long |
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The murderers wearin' police uniforms confederate flags I burn |
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Beat street breakers were dancin' to the music I chose |
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An' Peachtree Atlantic heads was tootin' they nose |
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In frozen corners of Chicago loaded up Llama's children |
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With an' double |
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We devil incarnates headed for jail |
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Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin' us killed |
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Your paper money was the death of Christ |
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An' all these shorties comin' up just resurrect your life |
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It's like a cycle |
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The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs |
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Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word |
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The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they |
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An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride one mo' time |
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The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs |
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Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word |
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The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they |
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An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride right |
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Used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up |
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That's when we were lied to buyin' hair products |
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Back before my generation when our blackness started disintegratin' |
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'Til awareness started penetratin' |
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The styles come from prison they used potatoes makin' liquor |
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Just to prove we some creative |
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Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work |
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An' you get nothin' without struggle an' hard work |
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War is necessary to my in chains |
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From Greene to Sing-Sing I'm wantin' y'all to know one thing |
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The hardest thing is to forgive but God does |
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Even if you murdered or robbed yeah it's wrong but God loves |
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Take one step toward him he takes two towards you |
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Even when all else fail God support you |
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I done it got God sun on my stomach |
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My heart an' my lungs was affected from an' gettin' |
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Do your body right an' it loves you back |
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You only get one life an' yo because of that |
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I'm still blazin' goin' out for the cause |
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Still rockin' stockin' not for the waves obeyin' no laws |
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An' it's like that |
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The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs |
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Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word |
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The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they |
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An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride one mo' time |
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The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs |
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Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word |
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The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they |
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An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride right |
