| Lyrics: | Back in the day,
growing up in Hollis Queens New York,
I used to play in the day til
the day got dark,
and everyone around me knew everybody else,
no matter what you do,
you're never by yourself,
school and homework were neccessary evils,
before you went
out and daredeviled like Kenivel
football and softball and b-ball we played,
cause
that's that we went about it back in the day
Verse 2:
now back in
the day,
block partys going on in the summer,
the echo in the street was the beat of
the drummer,
guys and girls dancing, and kids ran around,
when I got a little older,
grab the mic and throw down,
I always rocked the party, I never was afraid,
cause if
you made a record you was gonna get paid,
Baby D was in there, and so was Super Rhymes,
and every signle DJ had a pair of good times,
now ?? hooked me, and put me in the
crew,
but 15 brothers made it something like a zoo,
when I got through, like the
other crews around,
with Jam, Pete, Hollis Crew and Solo Sound,
but meanwhile, all
the kids were getting into fashion,
spend a couple dollars, hit the ave with a passion,
trying to be in with the rest of New Yorkers,
mock necks, knees, and a pair of
british walkers,
the ?? to the turn to the ave for the shopping,
and once you got
started, yo, there was no stopping,
and when it got cold there were coats to get inta,
sheep dogs and goosedowns that keep you warm in the winter,
collecting dust in my
house today is some of the gear that I used to wear
around the way,
you gotta dress
to impress is what I always say,
cause that's the way you went about it back in the day
Verse 3:
back in the day I watched wrestling with Superfly Snuka,
a quart of ?? and a strawberry bazooka,
5 for a haircut, and they can make it
thourough,
and 50 cents can get you anywhere in the borough,
karate movies came on
Saturdays at 3,
the films were kind of cheap but they were dope to me,
movie scores
for 3 bucks, and 5 in the city,
so 20 was plenty, with someone who was pretty,
you
had to have heart, though,
and suckers were forbidden,
yes we were kids then, but no
we wasn't kidding,
I often reminisce about the real good times,
yo, I know it's not
Georgia, but it's still on my mind,
back when we used to have the partys in the park,
and crack wasn't nothing but a broken sidewalk,
you helped a brother out so he could
make his way,
cause that's how you went about it back in the day |
