Doo Rags (Explicit)

Pushin' drop-tops Stacy Lattisaw tapes the 80's had us all apes Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate

That was a uncanny era in my pants

Yeah X Clan hair with dreads at the top of my fade

Homicide an' Feds on the blocks where I played b-ball

That's when I wondered was I here for the cause or be-cause

'Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto

Was told to stay strong an' I could beat the devil

'Cause yo I used to play Apollo Balcony seats

Watchin' swing razors in the front row then out in the streets

The car show 560's chemical afros

Acuras pumpin' Super Lover Cee an' Casanova

Live chicks be bustin' out of they clothes

Wearin' lip gloss big door knockers pealin' they earlobes

So where them years go Where the old gold beers an' cheers go

But now them shorties here doe so

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word

The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they

An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride one mo' time

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word

The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they

An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride right

Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull

In army boots yellin "Join the armed forces"

We lost the Vietnam War intoxicated poisons

Needles in arms of veterans instead of bigger fortunes

There's still a lot of crawlin' in the carpet offices

War in the ghetto we crabs in a barrel they torture us

They won't be servin' the beast too long

The murderers wearin' police uniforms confederate flags I burn

Beat street breakers were dancin' to the music I chose

An' Peachtree Atlantic heads was tootin' they nose

In frozen corners of Chicago loaded up Llama's children

With an' double

We devil incarnates headed for jail

Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin' us killed

Your paper money was the death of Christ

An' all these shorties comin' up just resurrect your life

It's like a cycle

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word

The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they

An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride one mo' time

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word

The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they

An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride right

Used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up

That's when we were lied to buyin' hair products

Back before my generation when our blackness started disintegratin'

'Til awareness started penetratin'

The styles come from prison they used potatoes makin' liquor

Just to prove we some creative

Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work

An' you get nothin' without struggle an' hard work

War is necessary to my in chains

From Greene to Sing-Sing I'm wantin' y'all to know one thing

The hardest thing is to forgive but God does

Even if you murdered or robbed yeah it's wrong but God loves

Take one step toward him he takes two towards you

Even when all else fail God support you

I done it got God sun on my stomach

My heart an' my lungs was affected from an' gettin'

Do your body right an' it loves you back

You only get one life an' yo because of that

I'm still blazin' goin' out for the cause

Still rockin' stockin' not for the waves obeyin' no laws

An' it's like that

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word

The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they

An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride one mo' time

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an' furs

Riker's Island bustin' still packed what's the word

The drinkers stay drinkin' or puffin' they

An' I'm still enjoyin' life's ride right