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