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  in my pants
Yeah  X Clan hair  with dreads at the top of my fade
Homicide an' Feds on the blocks 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 razors 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  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 doe  so
The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  one mo' time
The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  right
Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull
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 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' police uniforms  confederate flags I burn
Beat street breakers were dancin' to the music I chose
An' Peachtree Atlantic heads was tootin' they nose
In frozen corners of Chicago  loaded up Llama's children

With an' double
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
The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  one mo' time
The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
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 sun on my stomach
My heart an' my lungs was affected from an' gettin'
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'  not for the waves  obeyin' no laws
An' it's like that
The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they

An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  one mo' time
The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  right