[VERSE 1]

Damn the rap game done changed

Everytime I turn around niggaz spittin' nigga's names

'96 was when the love was real

When Big came and took the whole Brooklyn to fame

Straight off of St. James

Lookin' all Dapper Don, he threw a party and bullshit, it was on

And, B.I.G. spot'll never be claimed

'Cuz Mrs. Wallace, Cease and Roc carry his name

And later on in '96 when Hovi came and

"Ain't No Nigga" was the key to his fame

Introducin' a little Brooklyn girl by the name of Fox Brown

About to shut this rap shit down and

To the world we was Bonnie & Clyde

And everything my nigga Jay said I'm ready to ride

Then "I'll Be" came to skyrocket our fame

And 2 million sales later bet I rode the same



[CHORUS 2x: Notorious B.I.G. from "Things Done Changed"]

Remember back in the days when niggaz had waves

New Gazellie shades and corn braids

Take you niggaz on a trip straight to Memory Lane



[VERSE 2]

Then Nas came and The Firm was born

We snatched AZ and Mega and our team was born

I took 'em on Puff tour, turn around Nas gone

And the whole crew follow, what a hard pill to swallow and

I had to thug it out and go in the zone

And rock 30 thousand on my muhfuckin' own but

I couldn't break down, I couldn't moan

I got this Ill Na Na blood in my veins, I spar alone!

Then 4 weeks later Puff ended at home at the Garden

The show I came up on the throne

See I...Can't believe my niggaz left me alone

And I don't buy the shit about Puff was treatin' 'em wrong

How the fuck we tryna pull weight on this man tour?

At the time Puff 8 mil, the fuck you mad for?

That's the problem wit niggaz, see they worse than broads

Want a bitch to conceal they scars, yeah



[CHORUS x2: Notorious B.I.G. from "Things Done Changed"]

Remember back in the days when niggaz had waves

New Gazellie shades and corn braids

Take you niggaz on a trip straight to Memory Lane



[VERSE 3]

It's called the vapors

Soon as you stack some paper

These cowards got the nerve to face ya

They got the gall to page ya

How the fuck you have a lil' soldier and replace her wit a dozier

But like I told ya Fox is a trooper

I'll walk straight pass ya like I never fuckin' knew ya

Listen man I'm he first bitch to sign to Def Jam

How can't I be the best, I'm from the best man

'97 was the year Kim came wit her best plan

To go straight at her best friend

I thought it was a cute lil' spar

'Till I heard her on the Flex tape describin' my car

Mo' money, mo' problems, kid

I guess you never did expect me to blow this big and

I know my fans won the battle I fought

But understand I keep her breathin', I'm her life support



[CHORUS x2: Notorious B.I.G. from "Things Done Changed"]

Remember back in the days when niggaz had waves

New Gazellie shades and corn braids

Take you niggaz on a trip straight to Memory Lane