[Verse 1]
I think back slipping into the time stream
I've seen so much my eyes no longer gleam
17 but remember I was a youngin'
Running with my friends in park
'Jamming' as it was called
The world I felt like I ruled
It's funny tho', my friends from back then
Now ain't my friends
But I ain't mad, everybody change
No-one stay the same
It's called growing up I wish the best to my mates
My first heart break had me like Drake
Girls the same, play with your brain
Remain unchanged, deranged love to play games
But love ain't no game, it's a shame
I think that TV's to blame
Speak of past events with my mains
Although my whole life ahead
I'm young, but word I feel much older
My hearts turned colder
Crush feelings like a boulder
The Double S I shoulder
Feeling like Kid and Play
Let Godson play
Tell the DJ rewind, I'm stuck in this time
Out tryna get mine, writing these lines
You'll find I struggle leaving the past
But f** it my music make it last
k**ing rappers, word to mother they never had a chance
[Hook]
Waking up early in the AM
Reminiscing
Over and Over, I keep thinking
Bumping Illmatic, I think I'm ill
Sit static, I still
Think about the past over and over
Over and Over
I'm reminiscing
Over and Over
I'm still thinking
[Verse 2]
On the mic I keep my relevance
It's evident, I'm the better MC
Do it big like elephants
It's definite the old times was best
Right now one f** up
Your whole life a mess, that's stress
That I never had back in day
I took it for granted my parents used to say
"Don't be in such a rush to grow up
Cause when you grow up, you gotta work everyday"
Like a typical child I didn't pay 'em no mind
I mean I had a lot time, took one blink
Now it's like everything done went and changed
But it's okay, it's alright I'm fine
Growing up here is hard, but hey it's life
Being a young black male there's no way tell
How life will go but I still try
Smile through out the hard times
As times went on I got wiser some
Tryna be a better son
Make my parents proud of me
The lord he carry me
The years of my existence
From '96 to the present
Are like tapes sometimes I sit and press play
Feel me?
[Hook]