For My Sistas (Explicit)

[00:00.00]For My Sistas - Coolio

[00:22.57]Now I didn't use the word

[00:23.62]B**ch a few times in a rhyme but

[00:25.55]Now it's '95 so let me drop a line

[00:28.62]This goes out to the young black queens

[00:30.92]On the neighborhood scene

[00:32.14]Who haven't lost their dream

[00:33.92]I know sometimes

[00:34.65]It seems like it ain't no love

[00:36.54]And to get where you go ya

[00:37.97]Got to push an' shove

[00:39.42]Around the way girl

[00:40.60]With hope in your heart

[00:42.00]Do his five in the purse

[00:43.71]An' five in the start

[00:45.09]She's the kinda woman ya

[00:46.40]Take home to momma

[00:47.85]The only kind you ever

[00:49.03]Let get past the drama

[00:50.39]Coolio know

[00:51.67]That you ain't no ho

[00:53.14]And it's time to put you up

[00:54.59]On a pedestal seat

[00:56.29]Queen of the entire universe

[00:58.86]And you know how I know

[01:00.15]That you were put here first

[01:01.53]An' to every ni**a that dissed ya

[01:03.07]An' every ni**a that hit ya

[01:04.51]Accept my apologies for my brothaz

[01:07.23]My sista

[01:08.31]Give it up for my sistas

[01:13.09]Give it up for my sistas

[01:18.62]Give it up for my sistas

[01:22.72]You're all I need

[01:29.65]Princess of the Nile

[01:30.81]An' sweet black sexy child

[01:32.53]Ooh I like your style huh

[01:35.10]First motha on the planet

[01:36.39]I know it's gettin' scary

[01:37.64]And all these wannabe

[01:38.71]Pimps is all that ya meet

[01:40.46]But ya gotta shake 'em off

[01:41.93]Like fleas an' ni**a meat

[01:43.59]And use your God-given talents and abilities

[01:46.35]No matta where ya from ya

[01:47.67]Get much respect

[01:48.85]From the top of

[01:49.82]Your neck to your county check

[01:51.63]I see ya waitin' for the bus

[01:53.13]In the early morn

[01:54.36]Brick house with a face like Leena Horne

[01:57.28]I ain't no cap to save a ho

[01:58.89]But I got your front

[02:00.04]An' your side an' your back

[02:01.51]If that's what ya want

[02:02.90]So when it's time to put it down

[02:04.39]I won't be runnin'

[02:05.43]Ya got a dear lil'

[02:06.92]Somethin' like Harriet Tubmanm huh

[02:08.71]No matta what ya do or where ya go

[02:11.06]Ya got love from a ni**a named Coolio

[02:13.97]My sista

[02:15.43]Give it up for my sistas

[02:19.87]Give it up for my sistas

[02:25.43]Give it up for my sistas

[02:29.63]You're all I need

[02:36.50]Hernie Dipp got the lips

[02:37.65]Finga tips and the hips

[02:39.09]Ta make mice outa

[02:40.08]The crazy-a** Bloodz and Crypts

[02:41.78]Make a ni**a sing a song all night long

[02:44.47]Til' his voice is gone

[02:46.03]Wit' no music on

[02:47.53]You can be a busta on a hardass low

[02:50.18]An' should be down wit' your a**

[02:51.79]When your poor and broke

[02:53.08]And um uh

[02:54.18]Every time ya need I'll owe ya

[02:56.43]Gotta do is make a phone call cuz

[02:58.86]When ya say 'come' ya know

[03:00.49]She's on her way

[03:01.38]Wit' no hesitance

[03:02.77]An' any type of the leg

[03:04.46]I talk about my granny

[03:05.71]Batana an' Vanita

[03:07.28]Jacki an' Nicole an' Grandy an' Artisha

[03:10.06]I gots to give credit where credit is due

[03:12.53]An' all credit that is credited is credit to you

[03:15.25]I give praise to your wayz

[03:16.81]An' for all my day

[03:18.08]Apologies much respect to the sons I raise

[03:20.84]My sista

[03:22.43]Give it up for my sistas

[03:26.99]Give it up for my sistas

[03:31.49]Come on

[03:32.45]Give it up for my sistas

[03:36.56]You're all I need

[03:43.59]Give it up for my sistas

[03:48.06]Come on

[03:49.29]Give it up for my sistas

[03:54.80]Give it up for my sistas

[03:58.90]You're all I need

[04:05.91]Give it up for my sistas

[04:10.37]Come on

[04:11.53]Give it up for my sistas

[04:16.33]Come on

[04:17.07]Give it up for my sistas