[Intro]

Nowdays them a braid, twist and them a plot

I and I natty are dreadlocks

Nowdays them a braid, twist and them a plot

I and I natty are dreadlocks

[Refrain]

Remember way back when Rasta had no friend

When he was down in his luck and couldn't find a buck

Babylon and his friends, there ain't no end I and I a penitentiary

[Chorus]

Bad Boy, them a run things (Yeah)

I went to Jamdown and over foreign

Bad Boy have fi run things here

A nuff bad man live in a foreign

[Verse 1]

Shot a Glock over in a Matches Lane

Grandmama all already pain

Trying to get Johnny one visa

Send him at foreign, life would be easier

Down the lane fire one pop

Now in a foreign, fire big Glock

Left from York, you call him exportee

Now him return, you call him deportee

[Chorus]

Bad Boy, them a run things here

A nuff bad man live in a foreign

Bad Boy have fi run things here

Nuff bad man live in a foreign

[Verse 2]

Talk burn when elementary

No body an done at Casa Boboli

But in the ghetto wish Brooklyn New York

You can't trust shadow in the dark

So you see we juggling skills

I set up roots in a Cypress Hills

[Chorus]

Bad Boy, them a run things here

Whether Jamdown or in a foreign

Bad Boy have fi run things here

Nuff bad man live in a foreign

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3]

Back in the days this was like a ghost town

And every day just another shot down

Eighteen God, Cypress pon lock

Before the nigga man a jiggle on the block

So you see we juggling skills

We set up roots in a Cypress Hills

Left from York as an exportee

Now him return you'll be calling deportee

[Chorus]

Bad Boy have fi run things here

A nuff bad man live in a foreign

Bad Boy, them a run things deh

A nuff bad man live in a foreign

[Refrain]

Remember way back when when Rasta had no friends

When he was down and is luck and couldn't find a buck

Babylon and his friends, there ain't no end I and I a penitentiary

[Chorus]

Them a braid, them a twist, nuff of them a plot

And I an' I are natty dreadlocks

Them a braid, them a twist and nuff of them a plot

But I an' I are natty dreadlock

[Bridge]

Roots natty, roots natty-natty-natty

I an' I are natty dreadlock

Roots natty, roots natty-natty-natty

I an' I are natty dreadlock

[Chorus]

Them a braid, them a twist and nuff of them a plot

But I an' I are natty dreadlock

Them a braid, them a twist, nuff of them a plot

I an' I are natty dreadlock

[Outro]

Remember way back when when Rasta had no friends

When he was down and is luck and couldn't find a buck