Tonart: Gb major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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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
Yeah X- Clan hair,
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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,
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'Cause Ray Charles
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could see the ghetto
Was told to stay strong and I
could beat the Devil
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I used to play Apollo balcony seats
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Watching niggas swing razors in the front row,
then out in the streets
560's, chemical Afros
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Acuras pumping Super Lover
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Cee and Casanova
Live chicks be,
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asses busting out of they clothes
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big door knockers pealing they earlobes
So where them years go? Where the old
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gold beers and cheers go?
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But now them shorties here doe, so
Verse 2
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The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
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Riker's Island busting,
G
still packed, what's the word?
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The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
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And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
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The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
Am
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Riker's Island busting,
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still packed, what's the word?
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The drinkers stay drinking,
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
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right?
Verse 3
Political thugs in shark suits
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persuade us to pull triggers
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yelling "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
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There's still a lot of naked crawling
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in the corporate offices
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we crabs in a barrel, they torture us
They won't be serving the beast too long
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The murderers wearing police uniforms,
confederate flags I burn
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Beat Street breakers were dancing
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to the music I chose
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And Peachtree Atlantic crackhead
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s was tootin' they nose
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In frozen corners of Chicago,
loaded up Llama's children
double- revolvers
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Where Shell gas company in
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South Africa be having us killed
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Your paper money was
the death of Christ
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Cm
And all these shorties coming up
just resurrect your life
Verse 4
Bm
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
Am
Riker's Island busting,
G
still packed, what's the word?
F
The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
C
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And I'm, still en joying life's ride,
one mo' time
C
Bm
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
snorkels and furs
Am
Dm
Riker's Island busting,
E
still packed, what's the word?
Eb
The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
Cm
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
right?
Verse 5
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Niggas used to wear rags on they
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hair when it was fried up
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That's when we were lied to,
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Back before my generation,
when our blackness started disintegrating
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'Til awareness started penetrating
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The styles come from prison,
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they used potatoes making liquor
Just to prove we some
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creative niggas
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Turning nothing into something,
is God work
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And you get nothing without
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struggle and hard work
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War is necessary to my niggas
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From Greene to Sing- Sing,
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I'm wanting 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,
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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 sun
on my stomach
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My heart an d my lungs was affected
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from Henny's and getting blunted
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You only get one life,
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and yo be cause of that
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I'm still blazing, going out for the 'cause
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Still rocking stocking caps, not for the waves,
obeying no laws
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D
The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels and furs
Verse 6
Am
Riker's Island busting,
E
still packed, what's the word?
Eb
The drinkers stay drinking,
or puffin they herb
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
C
G
The doo rags are back, fitted hats,
D
snorkels and furs
Am
Riker's Island busting,
G
Eb
still packed, what's the word?
F
The drinkers stay drinking,
F
And I'm, still enjoying life's ride,
Outro 1
right?
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