Back in the Day Ahmad

[00:00.47] Intro:
[00:01.64] Jerome! jerome! put on that bobby womack!
[00:02.47] Nah girl I wanna go way back, ahh yeah check this out
[00:03.43] *Needle is put to the groove on a dusty record*
[00:11.45] Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
[00:15.16] But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
[00:17.89] Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
[00:21.08] But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
[00:23.86] Back in the days
[00:24.78] Verse one:
[00:25.87] When I just a little niggerole
[00:27.03] I looked up to my bigger bro
[00:28.71] Begged if I could kick it so
[00:30.15] When he went out with girls I could go taggin along
[00:32.54] Naggin if she had a sis maybe could mack a baby hoodrat
[00:35.39] Y'all remember way back then, when it was 1985
[00:39.56] All the way live, I think I was about ten
[00:42.39] One of those happy little niggaz singin the blues
[00:44.12] That be always tryin to bag with the shag (and karate shoes)
[00:48.29] Sayin "yo momma black, his momma this, his momma that"
[00:51.63] Then he get mad and wanna scrap
[00:54.09] We stay mad about, ten minutes then it's like back on the bike
[00:56.45] To play hide and go get it with the younger hoes by the bungaloes
[00:59.43] Then switch to playin ding dong ditch, when that gets
[01:03.57] Old and too cold to hack it, threw on a bomber jacket
[01:06.37] You could tell the ballers 'cause they bell wearin gazelles
[01:09.55] If they really had money raised be sportin bk's
[01:12.36] And, all the girls had they turkish link
[01:15.36] If it broke then they made earrings to it, like they meant to do it
[01:18.85] But, sometimes, I still sit and reminesce
[01:21.67] Then, think about the years I was raised, back in the days
[01:24.23] Chorus:
[01:25.39] Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
[01:27.84] But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
[01:30.55] Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
[01:33.84] But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
[01:36.09] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[01:39.13] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[01:42.53] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[01:45.55] (What?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
[01:48.41] Verse two:
[01:49.39] I'm still back in the days, but now the year is '87
[01:52.17] '88 that's when my crew and I were in junior high
[01:55.03] In 7th grade, I hated school (wish it'd blow up)
[01:58.14] No doubt I couldn't wait to get out (and be a grownup)
[02:00.53] But let me finish this reminescin and tellin
[02:04.02] Bout when girls was bellin tight courderoys like for the boys
[02:06.89] Basket weaves, nike court airs, and footsie socks
[02:10.32] And eatin pickles, with tootsie pops
[02:13.54] And it don't stop, I'm glad 'cause when j.j. fad hit
[02:16.27] Supersonic it was kinda like a sport to wear biker shorts
[02:19.35] Or, to wear jeans and it seemed like the masses
[02:22.53] Of hoochies, had poison airbrushes on they asses
[02:25.02] Dudes, had on nike suits, and the pumas with
[02:29.19] The fat laces, 'cause it was either that or k-swiss
[02:31.99] I miss those days, and so I pout like a grown jerk
[02:34.50] Wishin all I had to do now, was finish homework
[02:37.74] It's true, you don't realize really what you got til it's gone
[02:40.57] And I'm not, gonna sing another sad song, but
[02:43.66] Sometimes I do sit and reminesce then
[02:46.79] Think about the years I was raised, back in the days
[02:49.13] Chorus
[03:01.28] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[03:04.99] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[03:07.76] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[03:10.24] (What?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
[03:25.33] Verse three:
[03:26.74] Well, it's the niggerole, I figure that now I'm all grown up
[03:28.77] Because I'm eighteen years old, and guess you could say I'm holdin
[03:31.56] Down a steady job and crew steady mobbin
[03:34.50] You steady bobbin your head and I'm paid, so I got it made
[03:37.99] But, didn't always have clout, used to live in south central l.a.
[03:43.73] That's where I stayed and figured a way out
[03:45.56] I gave it all I had so for what it's worth
[03:46.91] I went, from rags to riches which is a drag but now I'm first
[03:49.88] So (ahmad and the jones' is on our way up)
[03:52.28] Yup, we said that we was gonna make it since a kid
[03:55.72] And we finally did, but
[03:56.78] Sometimes I still sit and reminesce, then
[04:01.10] Think about the years I was raised, back in the days
[04:02.05] Chorus
[04:14.15] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[04:28.25] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[04:31.18] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[04:34.18] (What?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
[04:38.44] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[04:41.57] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[04:44.67] (And everybody say) (I remember way back when)
[04:47.79] (What?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
[04:50.04] *Fades*
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