Let's take a trip down memory lane
 With the game talker, native New Yorker
 Gators on my feet, formerly British walker
 Yes love, that's how it was before
 When you was funky fresh or down by law
 Parlay with your crew at the corner store
 Carrying a boom box ?til your arms were sore
 We be wildin' on the corner free stylin'
 Or politickin' ?bout doe we see piling
 Or either girls we be getting with, how we be hitting it
 Lying bout skins that we didn't get
 Slow moving at paces through the rat races
 The Jordache look and fat laces
 Making moves any type of way
 I remember it like yesterday, hey

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 Here's to you
 That's how it was before
 When you was funky fresh or down by law
 Way back in the days how we used to do
 Thank you for the good times y'all
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 Verse 2
 D?j? vu, things ain't nothing new
 Shorties make me think how we used to do
 When you couldn't be sleeping, if you plan on keeping
 Hold of your sheepskin, heads do be peeping
 Think it can't happen to you, now could it?
 Came to school wearing Puma's went home barefooted
 And on the weekends when everybody click
 To slide to the deuce to check Karate flicks
 Come back around the way after dark
 So the crew could embark on the jam in the park
 What would happen that night, was to scrap in a fight
 Only way to break it up was playing Rappers Delight
 And as I sit back watching you
 Shorties out there doing what you got to do
 I feel for you being sincere
 Cause where you trying to go I already been there, yeah

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 Verse 3
 Ain't nothing but love I got to give
 I don't playa hate cause we all got to live
 That negative lifestyle I prohibit
 Good life I got to live it, bubbly I got to sip it
 Now I'll admit that I sort of be flashing
 But yet and still I do it in an orderly fashion
 Bring on the honeys and watch me mack these, stack cheese
 Go on with your bad self, Black Caes
 Just when the game got the stakes set high
 Straight from Bed Stuy, the return of the Jedi
 With a jewel cause I'm tired of seeing
 Charges being brought up, on brothers getting caught up
 Now it's about time we connect, organize and collect
 A new wold order's in effect
 I send this out to the shorties in the hood
 I wanna see you all live good

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