Nas - Doo Rags Lyrics

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[Nas - Verse 1]

Pushing 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 guns in my pants yeah

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

Homicidal Feds on the blocks where I played b-ball

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

Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto

Was told to stay strong and I could beat the devil

Cause yo I used to play Apollo balcony seats

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

The car show 560's chemical afros

Acuras pumping Super Lover Cee and Casanova

Live chicks be asses bustin out of they clothes

Wearing lip gloss big door knockers peeling they earlobes

So where them years go? Where the Old Gold beers and cheers go?

But now them shorties here though so

[Hook]

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs

Riker's Island buses still packed what's the word?

The drinkers stay drinking or puffing they herb

And I'm still enjoying life's ride; one mo' time

The doo rags are back fitted hats snorkels and furs

Rikers Island buses still packed what's the word?

The drinkers still drinking or puffing they herb

And I'm still enjoying life's ride; right?

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[Verse 2]

Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull triggers

In army boots yelling "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 nigga crawling in the corporate offices

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

They won't be serving the beast too long

The murderers wearing police uniforms Confederate flags I burn

Beat Street breakers were dancing to the music I chose

And Peachtree Atlantic crackheads was tooting they nose

In frozen corners of Chicago loaded up Llamas children

With fo'-fo's and double-revolvers

We devil incarnates headed for jail

Where Shell gas company in South Africa be having us killed

Your paper money was the death of Christ

And all these shorties coming up just resurrect your life

It's like a cycle

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

Niggas used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up

That's when we were lied to buying hair products

Back before my generation when our blackness started disintegrating

'Til awareness started penetrating

The styles come from prison they used potatoes making liquor

Just to prove we some creative niggas

Turning nothing into something is God work

And you get nothing without struggle and hard work

War is necessary to my niggas in chains

From Green to Sing-Sing I'm wanting 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 toward you

Even when all else fail God support you

I done it got "God's Son" on my stomach

My heart and my lungs was affected from Hennys and getting blunted

Do your body right and it loves you back

You only get one life and yo because of that

I'm still blazing going out for the cause

Still rocking stocking caps not for the waves obeying no laws

And it's like that

[Hook]

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