Fresh Like Easter Sunday

Word up, we had some Easters for that ass. The car shows used to pop off on Easter. Everybody would go down [to Midtown Manhattan] to the Jacob Javits Center with their fresh clothes on. All types of chicks were down there. I’m hyped just talking about it. I love Easter from when my momma would hide the eggs with the ten-dollar bills in them and all that.

I’m an Easter fiend, but you know Easter is the resurrection of Christ, let’s not forget that. I’m not that ignorant, ya dig? It’s like; I guess society takes a twist on it. Christmas [is] the birth of Christ, but we use Christmas for getting all the gifts you want. Good grades would get you every gift you seen in Toys R Us. Easter [is] the resurrection of Christ and then it turned into niggas getting fresh. The parents wasn’t no better, they was getting you fresh church clothes so you could go to church before you put on your fresh street clothes. That’s the era I come from. They always had that gray suit with the pink. Gray and pink was national Easter colors, I don’t care what hood you from, gray and pink was national Easter colors in church. Holla at me for real!

-Jim Jones