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