The Ballad of Def Jam Jack

Egg #30

"Boy, you be good now," my momma warned,
"and put on your check shirt,
or maybe black, like Johnny Cash;
just pull your pants up first!"

Momma didn't plain understand,
that baggy pants were good;
you needed room for guns, and stuff,
to be part of the 'hood'.

Well, I passed Big Jimmy's hound dog
and foolish, pulled his tail.
When Sheriff come'n see Jimmy dead
he hauled my ass to jail

Five years passed and my momma came,
and said that I was free,
on account of Jim's old lady
'fessing up to cop a plea.

I climbed inside the pick up truck
and saw she was annoyed
"Have you lost your love of Hip-Hop, now?
Just pull your pants up, boy!"

(20 lines)