Why do we have to cross Why are niggas always crossing over And the matter? accept our music as long As can't see our faces? One, two, one, two, you got it
Runnin' the trenches, what? through the trenches, what? Runnin' the trenches It's the Patti Dooke, it's the Patti Runnin' the trenches, oh Runnin' through the trenches, the Patti's Dooke
through the trenches, what? Runnin' through the trenches, through the trenches It's the Patti Dooke, it's the what? through the trenches, oh through the trenches, it's the Patti's Dooke
Just the day I got a starter kit An M is a terrible to waste Caught the from the backs of the border of the mind state I control to a fraud
Nah, it ain't happenin', to make it even Robbin' and theivin' is one who with a Colgate frown And all remember my nasal for I sniff Well, it in the year of '78
But it's '93 or should I say For my style is much I said, "Come in", in Come on, come out into my
As I macks a man, your style has just been stuck By a sticker with a 'Frigerator if, how's about, why would? Never thought that the would bust the jeans
Mash it up, the one with the mustache the beat, hide it Deep under sheets, cover hint all threats but watch out Mr. Jarbage
Jimmy and the Jet, on the pier I'm known as the Cultivatin' mate mendin', bendin' any of my styles to gain a smile
Listen you hear it, there's no pink in my slip I that the rhythm and the blues and the rap got me red While the boys from plant bridge crossin' to a larger community Yet they're soon to see I have a named Luck
A nigga Dres A groupie named Cassandra caught on the head Of a baby named Chris, I missed a kid who wreck when sayin' Afrika and I when B's on the set
Runnin' through the trenches, through the trenches, what? Runnin' through the the Patti Dooke, it's the Patti what? Runnin' the trenches, oh Runnin' through the trenches, it's the Patti's
against sucka M.C.'s Prevention against M.C.'s Prevention against M.C.'s And now, prevention against M.C.'s
We to change the cover a little bit Because we see the big Negroes and white folks this album
Negroes and white buyin' this album Everybody's know who this group is We felt that the picture wasn't as important As it was we succeed in crossing over
Cross ain't nuthin' but a double cross you lose our audience We never gon' get them He may even try to change our
Let no man put Severin' the groups I blunder Cashin' all the on the mic I might cherry to the bush, Plug Wonder
to the fame against hoods Bridges to woods down under They can't be raised with the feminine In conjunction no chocolate in the mix
boy, Roy, cannot feel it But the to try and steal it Dilute it, it, kill it I see him infiltratin' to the And when the leechin' I'ma 'em all in they asses
Runnin' the trenches, what? Runnin' the trenches, yeah Runnin' the trenches It's the Dooke, it's the Patti what? Runnin' the trenches, oh Runnin' through the trenches, the Patti's Dooke
It might up but it won't go pop It blow up but it won't go pop It might up but it won't go pop It might blow up but it go pop
It blow up but it won't go pop It might up but it won't go pop It might up but it won't go pop It blow up but it won't go pop
I shed light and not skin, I ain't from Afro connects at the of the retina of the third Mums the word when ya blind, baby, to the fact
Don't rest the Compton so I own a gat But respect is clear crystal 'cause got a pistol And she's down with me, wild, of wild Born to the old school legitimate soul
of the many paragraphs ago Walker of the broken calves ago Phantom of the phrase, black in ways 'Cause I see her through the trenches Comin' rent my style
I'm not the one to fuck I'm you out I'm just not the one to fuck wit so it
Y'all, y'all who I am, listen up, son Peace to my man, And y'all better your trenches we runnin' through 'em
Do it, fluid, mess up my Do it, fluid, up my mind Do it, fluid, mess up my Do it, fluid, up my mind Do it, fluid, mess up my
Tell me How come they never over to us? I never seen niggas on Elvis Presley album cover