Doo Rags Lyrics - The Lost Tapes - Nas

Pushin' 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, in my pants 

Yeah, X Clan hair, with dreads at the top of my fade 

Homicide an' Feds on the blocks where I played, b-ball 

That's when I wondered was I here for the cause, or be-cause 

'Cause Ray Charles could see the ghetto 

Was told to stay strong an' I could beat the devil 

'Cause yo, I used to play Apollo Balcony seats 

Watchin' swing razors in the front row, then out in the streets 

The car show, 560's, chemical afros 

Acuras pumpin' Super Lover Cee an' Casanova 

Live chicks be, bustin' out of they clothes 

Wearin' lip gloss, big door knockers pealin' they earlobes 

So where them years go? Where the old gold beers an' cheers go? 

But now them shorties here doe, so 

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The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs 

Riker's Island bustin', still packed, what's the word? 

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they 

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, one mo' time 

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs 

Riker's Island bustin', still packed, what's the word? 

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they 

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, right 

Political thugs in shark suits persuade us to pull 

In army boots, yellin, "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 crawlin' in the carpet offices 

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

They won't be servin' the beast too long 

The murderers wearin' police uniforms, confederate flags I burn 

Photos 

Beat street breakers were dancin' to the music I chose 

An' Peachtree Atlantic heads was tootin' they nose 

In frozen corners of Chicago, loaded up Llama's children 

With an' double 

We devil incarnates, headed for jail 

Where Shell gas company in South Africa be havin' us killed 

Your paper money was the death of Christ 

An' all these shorties comin' up, just resurrect your life 

It's like a cycle 

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs 

Riker's Island bustin', still packed, what's the word? 

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they 

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, one mo' time 

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs 

Riker's Island bustin', still packed, what's the word? 

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they 

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, right 

Used to wear rags on they hair when it was fried up 

That's when we were lied to, buyin' hair products 

Back before my generation, when our blackness started disintegratin' 

'Til awareness started penetratin' 

The styles come from prison, they used potatoes makin' liquor 

Just to prove we some creative 

Turnin' nothin' into somethin', is God work 

An' you get nothin' without struggle an' hard work 

War is necessary to my in chains 

From Greene to Sing-Sing, I'm wantin' 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 towards you 

Even when all else fail, God support you 

I done it, got God sun on my stomach 

My heart an' my lungs was affected from an' gettin' 

Do your body right an' it loves you back 

You only get one life, an' yo, because of that 

I'm still blazin', goin' out for the cause 

Still rockin', stockin', not for the waves, obeyin' no laws 

An' it's like that 

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs 

Riker's Island bustin', still packed, what's the word? 

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they 

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, one mo' time 

The doo rags are back, fitted hats, snorkels an' furs 

Riker's Island bustin', still packed, what's the word? 

The drinkers stay drinkin', or puffin' they 

An' I'm, still enjoyin' life's ride, right