Doo Rags-Nas

[ti:Doo Rags(Clean Version)] [ar:Nas] [al:The Lost Tapes] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Doo Rags - Nas [00:13.01]Pushin' drop-tops Stacy Lattisaw tapes the 80's had us all apes Youngest gorillas up to bat at home plate [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 [00:42.00] [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 [00:55.12] [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 [01:31.62] [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 [01:50.30] [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 [02:02.00] [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 [02:22.07] [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' [02:31.14] [02:32.83]'Til awareness started penetratin' [02:34.08] [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 [02:49.00] [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 [02:59.68] [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 [03:11.00] [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