Nappy Roots Day (Album Version)-Nappy Roots

[ti:Nappy Roots Day (Explicit Album Version)] [ar:Nappy Roots] [al:Wooden Leather (Explicit Content) (U.S. Version) (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Nappy Roots Day (Explicit Album Version) - Nappy Roots [00:04.63]Holiday [00:05.21] [00:11.26]Holiday [00:11.73] [00:13.15]One of them is fat and loud [00:14.46]Second one is black and proud [00:16.42]Third one's drunk and wild [00:17.88]Fourth one slip and slide [00:19.40]One of them is just shy [00:20.90]Last one is young and wise [00:22.68]Homegrown battle tested [00:24.43]You gonna love these guys [00:26.06]Brought the hood on them guys [00:27.68]The best story told yet bonded against all odds [00:30.60]Ain't no tearin' them apart [00:32.18]Swore pattern wow till death do them in [00:35.51]Even in reincarnation they would do it again [00:38.30]Who would ever thought six different strands [00:39.89]Would lock together locked forever [00:41.33]Rockin' leathery wood [00:42.43]Told you chicken and Cris go good [00:44.07]With some watermelon [00:45.37]Albums sellin' coast to coast [00:46.95]Across the seas gave everything we could [00:48.98]Our tears our sweat our blood 'cuz [00:51.17]I am because we are [00:52.59]We are because I am [00:54.37]Everbody say [00:55.93](We are on a holiday) [00:57.67]Now throw your hands to the sky [00:59.20]Turn up the music just ride [01:00.85]We representin' right [01:02.11](We are on a holiday) [01:04.11]We are because I am [01:05.56]I am because we are [01:07.15]Hey it's Nappy Roots Day [01:08.97](We are on a holiday) [01:10.47]Now throw your hands to the sky [01:11.95]Bounce to the music we ride [01:13.45]We representin' right [01:14.91](We are on a holiday) [01:16.14]Now we stronger than wood playa [01:17.86](We tougher than leather) [01:19.13]Us yeaga's hustle together [01:20.48](Uh uh not just for the Cheddar) [01:22.15]Look here we trustin' each other [01:23.67](Sayin' "Um you f**k with my brother ) [01:25.41]You gotta suffer the [01:26.42]Reprocutions we come from the gutter [01:28.75]White Kangol white glass [01:30.14]Six stripped suit with the matching [01:32.40]Came from the ostrich [01:33.60]Blowin' smoke out the nostrils [01:35.30]Havin' trouble with student loans [01:36.81]We struggle for too long [01:38.56]But now we can move on [01:40.12]Put that on my tombstone [01:41.85]We are because I am [01:43.20] [01:43.70]Ain't hard to understand it [01:45.20]Far from a shootin' star [01:46.59](Rather play on my planet) [01:48.39]Power respect [01:49.22](Demanded) [01:49.88]To us nothing was handed [01:51.49]Play it as loud as you can [01:52.78]And say just how we played it [01:54.98]I am because we are [01:56.54]We are because I am [01:58.02]Everbody say [01:59.36](We are on a holiday) [02:01.27]Now throw your hands to the sky [02:02.83]Turn up the music just ride [02:04.08] [02:04.60]We representin' right [02:05.70](We are on a holiday) [02:07.55]We are because I am [02:09.08]I am because we are [02:10.72]Hey it's Nappy Roots Day [02:12.74](We are on a holiday) [02:14.10]Now throw your hands to the sky [02:15.62]Bounce to the music we ride [02:17.19]We representin' right [02:18.70](We are on a holiday) [02:20.20]Bring out your kids and just treat em [02:22.03]Cotton candy plus freedom [02:23.55]Raised by ma cousin and feed em [02:24.98]Sweet as Shirley temple singin' [02:26.78]Clown on the caruselle [02:28.16]Sping on the ferris wheel [02:29.67]It's magic floatin' smokin' [02:31.53]Taking up a call from fish house [02:33.03]Man we livin' straight [02:34.36]Real playas and real estates [02:35.98]Weapons we put away [02:37.61]We reachin' out with Nappy Day [02:39.30]Sparklers light up the dark [02:40.87]Fireworks in the park [02:42.61]Shrimp ala car red wine holly tart [02:45.80]Like soldiers comin' home [02:47.07]Watchin' after the war is gone [02:48.82]Skys raining confetti [02:50.34]Singing out the Nappy medely's [02:52.01]Get rid of felonies [02:53.43]Wash em away with melodies [02:55.17]Irish to Ebonies [02:56.93]Haitians to the Lebonese [02:58.40]As I jot down in my note pad some day [02:59.96]Considered important to me [03:01.39]The birth of my son the day I signed [03:03.01]My first recording agreement [03:04.58]It was sorta like my soul to the Devil [03:06.14]And I was allowing him to keep it [03:07.66]But the true essence of this art form [03:08.86]Can't be confined to temptation and evil [03:10.67]Lots of folks on the grind to this bullshit [03:12.30]And my real yeagas stuck around [03:13.53]So this days a tribute a celebration [03:15.26]I am because we all stay down [03:17.01]Sh*t I am gonna keep it [03:18.47]Nappy 365 and 7 days a week [03:19.88]We fortunate to make it out that trap [03:21.74]Because the forest roots they runnin' deep [03:23.77]I am because we are [03:25.62]We are because I am [03:27.18]Everbody say [03:28.50](We are on a holiday) [03:30.42]Now throw your hands to the sky [03:32.04]Turn up the music just ride [03:33.70]We representin' right [03:35.01](We are on a holiday) [03:36.75]We are because I am [03:38.28]I am because we are [03:39.93]Hey it's Nappy Roots Day [03:42.01](We are on a holiday) [03:43.16]Now throw your hands to the sky [03:44.86]Bounce to the music we ride [03:46.33]We representin' right [03:47.87](We are on a holiday) [03:49.46]Today I'm feelin' so alive revived [03:52.39] [03:56.05]Today I'm feelin' so alive revived