| I be catching flashbacks
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| To time before we spoke in hashtags
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| Sons and daughters of Midnight Marauders
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| Sha-clack-clack even back before we spoke like griots here
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| Now everybody say, «I remember way back when»
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| Soupa Deville '78
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| Sun up in the sky when the clouds was grey
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| There we exchanged those ropes for chains
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| Some things will never be the same
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| Ayo, look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane
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| Ya’ll niggas know the name and ain’t a damn thing change
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| But I’m saying, the game needs to, get a make o'
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| Everything they play is just that same 'ol, same 'ol
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| Smoking on that Jane, yo, riding in that Range yo
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| These niggas still doing songs 'bout slanging cane bro?
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| That shit is way old, still getting paid though
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| Fuck you think we came for? |
| To be on the Today Show?
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| Ya’ll need to slide a few more O’s up on that payroll
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| Matter fact, bring the money bags off a crane yo
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| Tiger style, like I bring that Wu-Tang flow
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| Used to bust to bust, now they do it for the fame yo
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| I heard that Jay still getting '88 dough, I’m sayinn
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| Some things will never be the same
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| As they came
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| Peopled changed
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| And everybody knows
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| Some things will never be the same
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| As they came
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| Its a shame
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| Ayo, the radio, the TV yo, and even the press
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| It was the reason for the stress that they pile on your chest
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| But I said «Fuck that!» |
| Make sure the system in my truck stacked
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| I’m sick of cruising around the town off this bus pass
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| I used to bust back when ya’ll was watching Rugrats
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| 5'10″ pimp, growing out that little mustache
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| Watching sluts pass, wishing I could touch that
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| Pose on the scope on that all black chuck hat
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| They brought the Chucks back, but who the G’s above that?
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| Had them all whites like, «I dare somebody scuff that»
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| They know the drama, but it ain’t no need to talk that
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| Feel bad cause I never brought my poppa’s gun back
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| Run niggas when I never used to run track
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| Shit I used to get a young snatch off of one rap
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| I was a Slick Rick since I was a young cat — Yuppp
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| When I got that BDP poster I hung that uppp
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| Can’t believe my teacher put me in a dunce hat once — Say what?!
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| Some things will never be the same
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| As they came
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| Peopled changed
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| And everybody knows
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| Some things will never be the same
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| As they came
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| Its a shame
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| Ayo, the Kangols, the jumpsuits, the fat gold chains
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| The 3 stripes, the Cortez, stacking old tapes
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| The boombox, the flat-top, the lines, and the fade
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| The beepers, the speakers the 4-finger rings
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| Rakim’s G-Raps, the Big Daddy Kanes
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| The Biz, the real roxanne, Dana Dane
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| LL, The Fat Boys, Ice Cube, and Dre
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| Ice T, just ice, D Nice, and Flav
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| The Beasty Boys — Yup! |
| — Even 3rd Bass
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| Some things will never be the same
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| As they came
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| Peopled changed
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| And everybody knows
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| Some things will never be the same
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| As they came
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| Its a shame |