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Uhh |
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Pushin drop-tops, Stacy Lattisaw tapes, the 80's had us all apes |
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Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate |
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That was a uncanny era, guns in my pants |
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Yeah X-Clan hair, with dreads at the top of my fade |
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Homicide and 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 and I could beat the Devil |
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Cause yo, I used to play Apollo balcony seats |
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Watchin niggaz 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 and Casanova |
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Live chicks be, asses 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 and 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 and 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 herb |
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And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time |
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The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and 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 herb |
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And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right? |
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Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull triggers |
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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 nigger callin in the coorporate 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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And Peachtree Atlantic crackheads was tootin they nose |
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in frozen corners of Chicago, loaded up Llama's children |
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with fo'-fo's, and double-revolvers |
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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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And 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 and 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 herb |
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And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time |
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The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and 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 herb |
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And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right? |
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Niggaz 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 niggaz |
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Turnin nothin into somethin, is God work |
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And you get nothin without struggle and hard work |
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War is necessary to my niggaz 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 toward you |
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Even when all else fail, God support you |
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I done it, got God Son on my stomach |
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My heart and my lungs was affected from Henny's and gettin blunted |
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Do your body right and it loves you back |
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You only get one life, and yo because of that |
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I'm still blazin, goin out for the cause |
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Still rockin stockin caps, not for the waves, obeyin no laws |
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And it's like that |
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The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and 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 herb |
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And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; one mo' time |
| [03:25.581] |
The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and 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 herb |
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And I'm, still enjoyin life's ride; right? |
