[00:16.71]Pushin' drop-tops  Stacy Lattisaw tapes  the 80's had us all apes Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate
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[00:26.02]That was a uncanny era  in my pants
[00:28.58]Yeah  X Clan hair  with dreads at the top of my fade
[00:31.21]Homicide an' Feds on the blocks where I played  b-ball
[00:33.90]That's when I wondered was I here for the cause  or be-cause
[00:36.40]'Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto
[00:38.52]Was told to stay strong an' I could beat the devil
[00:40.96]'Cause yo  I used to play Apollo Balcony seats
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[00:42.93]Watchin' swing razors in the front row  then out in the streets
[00:47.11]The car show  560's  chemical afros
[00:48.61]Acuras pumpin' Super Lover Cee an' Casanova
[00:50.55]Live chicks be  bustin' out of they clothes
[00:52.29]Wearin' lip gloss  big door knockers pealin' they earlobes
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[00:56.18]So where them years go  Where the old gold beers an' cheers go
[01:00.68]But now them shorties here doe  so
[01:02.43]The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
[01:04.74]Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
[01:07.24]The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
[01:09.92]An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  one mo' time
[01:12.54]The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
[01:15.30]Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
[01:18.55]The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
[01:20.36]An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  right
[01:22.80]Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull
[01:25.30]In army boots  yellin  "Join the armed forces"
[01:27.68]We lost the Vietnam War  intoxicated poisons
[01:29.11]Needles in arms of veterans instead of bigger fortunes
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[01:32.67]There's still a lot of crawlin' in the carpet offices
[01:35.36]War in the ghetto  we crabs in a barrel  they torture us
[01:37.92]They won't be servin' the beast too long
[01:39.80]The murderers wearin' police uniforms  confederate flags I burn
[01:42.17]Beat street breakers were dancin' to the music I chose
[01:44.67]An' Peachtree Atlantic heads was tootin' they nose
[01:46.61]In frozen corners of Chicago  loaded up Llama's children
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[01:51.24]With an' double
[01:52.49]We devil incarnates  headed for jail
[01:55.17]Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin' us killed
[01:58.30]Your paper money was the death of Christ
[02:00.30]An' all these shorties comin' up  just resurrect your life
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[02:02.78]It's like a cycle
[02:03.73]The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
[02:06.29]Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
[02:08.84]The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
[02:11.42]An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  one mo' time
[02:14.10]The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
[02:16.60]Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
[02:18.98]The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
[02:20.85]An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  right
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[02:24.52]Used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up
[02:26.95]That's when we were lied to  buyin' hair products
[02:29.34]Back before my generation  when our blackness started disintegratin'
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[02:32.83]'Til awareness started penetratin'
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[02:34.76]The styles come from prison  they used potatoes makin' liquor
[02:37.70]Just to prove we some creative
[02:39.46]Turnin' nothin' into somethin'  is God work
[02:41.95]An' you get nothin' without struggle an' hard work
[02:44.39]War is necessary to my in chains
[02:46.55]From Greene to Sing-Sing  I'm wantin' y'all to know one thing
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[02:49.67]The hardest thing is to forgive  but God does
[02:52.11]Even if you murdered or robbed  yeah  it's wrong  but God loves
[02:54.98]Take one step toward him  he takes two towards you
[02:57.42]Even when all else fail  God support you
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[03:00.30]I done it  got God sun on my stomach
[03:02.60]My heart an' my lungs was affected from an' gettin'
[03:05.42]Do your body right an' it loves you back
[03:07.67]You only get one life  an' yo  because of that
[03:10.42]I'm still blazin'  goin' out for the cause
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[03:12.01]Still rockin'  stockin'  not for the waves  obeyin' no laws
[03:15.89]An' it's like that
[03:16.82]The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
[03:18.51]Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
[03:20.70]The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
[03:22.20]
[03:23.10]An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  one mo' time
[03:25.91]The doo rags are back  fitted hats  snorkels an' furs
[03:28.41]Riker's Island bustin'  still packed  what's the word
[03:30.34]The drinkers stay drinkin'  or puffin' they
[03:33.53]An' I'm  still enjoyin' life's ride  right