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