Dirty South Lyrics

[Chorus]
See powder gets you hyper, reefer makes you calm
Cigarettes give you cancer, woo woo's make you dumb

What you niggas know about the Dirty South?
What you niggas know about the Dirty South?

[Verse 3: Cool Breeze]
See never did I think when I got grown
That some pee wee sacks had been done took this town
See, life's a bitch, then you figure out
Why you really got dropped in the Dirty South
See in the 3rd grade this is what you taught
You was bought, you was sold
Now they sayin' Juice left some heads cracked
I betcha Jed Clampett want his money back

See East Point Atlanta threw this road block
Talkin 'bout all this blow traffic got to stop

So the big time players off John Freeman Way
Had to find themselves another back street to take
'Cause back in the day we was outta control
We didn't understand, "Naw nigga, that money ain't yours"
That's when me and Big Slate took an oath and sweared
Never would we talk, never would we tell

So when they pulled up bumpin' "Rock The Bells"
We took what we want and left them quiet as hell

[Chorus: Cool Breeze]
What you niggas know about the Dirty South?
What you niggas know about the Dirty South?


[Verse 4: Big Gipp]
Now that Cobras got the boys on Delowe on they back
Gipp hollered at Miss Ann, she said they didn't get trapped
Behind the black, behind green, behind the red tint
Dealers breaking off that blow up for those woodchips
A lot of faces ain't around, a lot of folks got shot
Scatta Mack droppin' G's while that Cristal pop
Been on the grind with Cool Breeze, droppin' pounds with B
Eric Neal is the coolest from my century
Mack town keeps growing, old school like Charles
Stankin' like dem Lincolns in Piedmont Park
Perry Homes to Herndon Homes, to all the Homes
Adamsville to Poole Creek, shit, just don't sleep in the Dirty South
One to da two da three da four
Them dirty Red Dogs done hit the door
And they got everybody on they hands and knees
And they ain't gonna leave until they find them keys
See powder gets you hyper, reefa makes you calm
Cigarettes give you cancer, woo woo's make you dumb


[Chorus: Big Gipp]
What you niggas know about the Dirty South?
What you niggas know about the Dirty South?
[Outro: Cee-Lo]
Ah, yeah yeah, the dirty south

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This record is widely accepted as one of the first, if not the first, record to refer to the south as the “dirty south” a term that has stuck around to this day. DF

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Bosstown Recording Studio (Atlanta)
Release Date
November 7, 1995
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