Tonart: Gb major
Intro 1
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F#m
Em
D
C
G
Em
G
D
F#m
A
Am
B
Bb
Gm
Verse 1
F#m
Em
Stacy Lattisaw tapes, the 80's had us all apes
D
Youngest gorillas up to bat
at home plate
C
That was a uncanny era,
guns in my pants
Yeah X- Clan hair,
D
with dreads at the top of my fade
G
F#m
Homicide and feds on the blocks where I played,
b- ball
Em
B
That's when I wondered was I here for the cause,
Bbm
Bb
'Cause Ray Charles
Gm
could see the ghetto
Was told to stay strong and I
could beat the Devil
F#m
I used to play Apollo balcony seats
Em
D
Watching niggas swing razors in the front row,
then out in the streets
560's, chemical Afros
G
Acuras pumping Super Lover
A
G
Cee and Casanova
Live chicks be,
F#m
asses busting out of they clothes
B
Bb
big door knockers pealing they earlobes
So where them years go? Where the old
Gm
gold beers and cheers go?
G
But now them shorties here doe, so
Verse 2
F#m
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
Em
Riker's Island busting,
D
still packed, what's the word?
C
The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
G
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
G
F#m
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
Em
Am
Riker's Island busting,
B
still packed, what's the word?
Bb
The drinkers stay drinking,
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
G
right?
Verse 3
Political thugs in shark suits
F#m
persuade us to pull triggers
D
yelling "Join the armed forces!"
C
We lost the Vietnam War,
intoxicated poisons
G
Needles in arms of veterans instead
G
There's still a lot of naked crawling
F#m
in the corporate offices
Ebm
we crabs in a barrel, they torture us
They won't be serving the beast too long
Gm
The murderers wearing police uniforms,
confederate flags I burn
G
Beat Street breakers were dancing
F#m
to the music I chose
Em
And Peachtree Atlantic crackhead
D
s was tootin' they nose
C
In frozen corners of Chicago,
loaded up Llama's children
double- revolvers
Em
Where Shell gas company in
C
South Africa be having us killed
B
Bb
Your paper money was
the death of Christ
Gm
Eb
Gm
And all these shorties coming up
just resurrect your life
Verse 4
F#m
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
Em
Riker's Island busting,
D
still packed, what's the word?
C
The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
G
D
And I'm, still en joying life's ride,
one mo' time
G
F#m
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
Em
Am
Riker's Island busting,
B
still packed, what's the word?
Bb
The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
Gm
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
right?
Verse 5
G
Niggas used to wear rags on they
F#m
hair when it was fried up
Em
That's when we were lied to,
C
Back before my generation,
when our blackness started disintegrating
G
'Til awareness started penetrating
F#m
The styles come from prison,
Em
they used potatoes making liquor
Just to prove we some
B
Ebm
creative niggas
Bb
Turning nothing into something,
is God work
Gm
And you get nothing without
Bb
struggle and hard work
C
G
War is necessary to my niggas
Em
From Greene to Sing- Sing,
D
I'm wanting y'all to know one thing
C
The hardest thing is to forgive,
but God does
Em
Even if you murdered or robbed,
A
D
yeah it's wrong, but God loves
G
F#m
Take one step toward him, he takes
two toward you
Em
A
B
Even when all else fail, God support you
Bb
I done it, got God sun
on my stomach
Gm
My heart an d my lungs was affected
Bb
from Henny's and getting blunted
F#m
it loves you back
Em
You only get one life,
D
and yo be cause of that
C
I'm still blazing, going out for the 'cause
G
D
Still rocking stocking caps, not for the waves,
obeying no laws
F#m
A
The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
Verse 6
Em
Riker's Island busting,
B
still packed, what's the word?
Bb
The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
G
D
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
A
snorkels and furs
Em
Riker's Island busting,
D
Bb
still packed, what's the word?
C
The drinkers stay drinking,
C
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
Outro 1
right?
G
F#m
Em
Am
B
Bb
Gm
G
F#m
Em
D
C
G
G
F#m
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