Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
 But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
 Verse One:
 I remember (back in the days)
 When I just a little niggerole
 I looked up to my bigger bro
 Begged if I could kick it so
 when he went out with girls I could go taggin along
 Naggin if she had a sis maybe could mack a baby hoodrat
 Y'all remember way back then, when it was 1985
 all the way live, I think I was about ten
 One of those happy little niggaz singin the blues
 That be always tryin to bag with the shag and karate shoes
 Sayin "Yo momma black, his momma this, his momma that"
 Then he get mad and wanna scrap
 We stay mad about, ten minutes then it's like back on the bike
 To play hide and go get it with the younger hoes by the bungaloes
 Then switch to playin ding dong ditch, when that gets
 old and too cold to hack it, threw on a bomber jacket
 You could tell the ballers cuz they bell wearin Gazelles
 And if they really had money raised be sportin BK's
 and, all the girls had they turkish link
 If it broke then they made earrings to it, like they meant to do it
 But, sometimes, I still sit and reminesce
 Then, think about the years I was raised, back in the days
 Chorus
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
 Verse Two:
 I'm still back in the days, but now the year is '87
 '88 that's when my crew and I were in junior high
 In 7th grade, I hated school wish it'd blown up
 No doubt I couldn't wait to get out (and be a grownup)
 But let me finish this reminescin and tellin
 Bout when girls was bellin tight courderoys like for the boys
 basket weaves, Nike Court Airs, and footsie socks
 And eatin pickles, with tootsie pops
 And it don't stop, I'm glad cuz when J.J. Fad hit
 Supersonic it was kinda like a sport to wear biker shorts
 or, to wear jeans and it seemed like the masses
 of hoochies, had poison airbrushed on they asses
 Dudes, had on Nike suits, and the Pumas with
 the fat laces, cuz it was either that or K-Swiss
 I miss those days, and so I pout like a grown jerk
 Wishin all I had to do now, was finish homework
 It's true, you don't realize really what you got til it's gone
 and I'm not, gonna sing another sad song, but
 Sometimes I do sit and reminesce then
 Think about the years I was raised, back in the days
 Chorus
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
 Verse Three:
 Well, it's the niggerole, I figure that now I'm all grown up
 Because I'm eighteen years old, and guess you could say I'm holdin
 down a steady job and crew steady mobbin
 you steady bobbin your head and I'm paid, so I got it made
 But, didn't always have clout, used to live in South Central L.A.
 That's where I stayed and figured a way out
 I gave it all I had so for what it's worth
 I went, from rags to riches which is a drag but now I'm first
 So Ahmad and The Jones' is on our way up
 Yup, we said that we was gonna make it since a kid
 and we finally did, but
 Sometimes I still sit there reminescin
 Think about the years I was raised, back in the days
 Chorus
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (and everybody say) (I remember way back when)
 (what?) (back in the day) (when?) (back in the day)
 Back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore
 But some days I sit and wish I was a kid again
 Back in the days
 *talking*
 I got jacked for mines
 You sound like a white dude "Hey I got jacked for mines!"
 Aight, aight