Holiday   Holiday      One of them is fat and loud   Second one is black and proud   Third one's drunk and wild   Fourth one slip and slide   One of them is just shy   Last one is young and wise   Homegrown battle tested, you gonna love these guys   Brought the hood on them guys   The best story told yet bonded against all odds   Ain't no tearin' them apart   Swore pattern, wow till death do them in   Even in reincarnation they would do it again      Who would ever thought six different strands   Would lock together locked forever   Rockin' leathery wood told you chicken and Cris go good   With some watermelon albums sellin' coast to coast   Across the seas gave everything we could   Our tears our sweat our blood, 'cuz      I am because we are   We are because I am   Everbody say   (We are on a holiday)   Now throw your hands to the sky   Turn up the music just ride   We representin' right   (We are on a holiday)      We are because I am   I am because we are   Hey, its Nappy Roots Day   (We are on a holiday)   Now throw your hands to the sky   Bounce to the music we ride   We representin' right   (We are on a holiday)      Now we stronger than wood, playa   (We tougher than leather)   Us yeaga's hustle together   (Uh uh not just for the Cheddar)   Look here we trustin' each other   (Sayin', "Um you fuck with my brother?)   You gotta suffer the reprocutions we come from the gutter   (White Kangol, white glass, six stripped suit with the matching)   Boots came from the ostrich blowin' smoke out the nostrils   (Havin' trouble with student loans, we struggle for too long)   But now we can move on put that on my tombstone   (We are because I am, ain't hard to understand it)   Far from a shootin' star   (Rather play on my planet)   Power respect   (Demanded)   To us nothing was handed   (Play it as loud as you can and say just how we played it)      I am because we are   We are because I am   Everbody say   (We are on a holiday)   Now throw your hands to the sky   Turn up the music just ride   We representin' right   (We are on a holiday)      We are because I am   I am because we are   Hey, its Nappy Roots Day   (We are on a holiday)   Now throw your hands to the sky   Bounce to the music we ride   We representin' right   (We are on a holiday)      Bring out your kids and just treat em   Cotton candy plus freedom   Raised by ma cousin and feed em   Sweet as Shirley temple singin'   Clown on the caruselle   Spin on the ferris wheel   Its magic floatin', smokin', takin up a call from fish house   Man, we livin' straight   Real playas and real estates   Weapons we put away   We reachin' out with Nappy Day   Sparklers light up the dark fireworks in the park      Shrimp ala car, red wine holly tart   Like soldiers comin' home   Watchin' after the war is gone   Skys raining confetti   Singing out the Nappy medely's   Get rid of felonies   Wash em away with melodies   Irish to Ebonies   Haitians to the Lebonese   As I jot down in my note pad some day   Considered important to me   The birth of my son the day I signed   My first recording agreement      It was sorta like my soul to the Devil   And I was allowing him to keep it   But the true essence of this art form   Can't be confined to temptation and evil   Lots of folks on the grind to this bullshit   And my real yeagas stuck around   So this days a tribute a celebration   I am because we all stay down   Shit, I am gonna keep it Nappy 365 and 7 days a week   We fortunate to make it out that trap   Because the forest roots they runnin' deep      I am because we are   We are because I am   Everbody say   (We are on a holiday)   Now throw your hands to the sky   Turn up the music just ride   We representin' right   (We are on a holiday)      We are because I am   I am because we are   Hey, its Nappy Roots Day   (We are on a holiday)   Now throw your hands to the sky   Bounce to the music we ride   We representin' right   (We are on a holiday)      Today I'm feelin' so alive, revived   Today I'm feelin' so alive, revived