Doo Rags

Pushin drop-tops Stacy Lattisaw tapes the 80s 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
Thats 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 560s 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
Rikers Island bustin still packed whats the word
The drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they
An Im still enjoyin lifes ride one mo time
The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an furs
Rikers Island bustin still packed whats the word
The drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they
An Im still enjoyin lifes 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

Theres still a lot of crawlin in the carpet offices
War in the ghetto we crabs in a barrel they torture us
They wont 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 Llamas 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

Its like a cycle
The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an furs
Rikers Island bustin still packed whats the word
The drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they
An Im still enjoyin lifes ride one mo time
The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an furs
Rikers Island bustin still packed whats the word
The drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they
An Im still enjoyin lifes ride right

Used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up
Thats 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 Im wantin yall to know one thing

The hardest thing is to forgive but God does
Even if you murdered or robbed yeah its 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
Im still blazin goin out for the cause

Still rockin stockin not for the waves obeyin no laws
An its like that
The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an furs
Rikers Island bustin still packed whats the word
The drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they

An Im still enjoyin lifes ride one mo time
The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels an furs
Rikers Island bustin still packed whats the word
The drinkers stay drinkin or puffin they
An Im still enjoyin lifes ride right