Back Then - Wiki, Lansky Jones

Why you always talk like that?

'Cause I got heart like that

Walked right back to the same place started at

Baby face with a Starter cap

When you had your hair grown out like Colin Kaep'

All you did was ball and rap

Never got your wallet snatched 'cause you never had a wallet then

All you had was all them friends all the way back then

Back then, half the time anybody rapping man they talking bout the past tense

Laughing 'cause everything is better now

Nah, back then, it was better how?

You never got ass then, you was always sad then

You was always late to your classes

Had to wake up at 6 just to make it to the motherfucking train and then catch it

You was uptown, school was in Brooklyn

Explain to me why you missed that shit

Don’t mean to be so nostalgic but, oof

I was on one back when I was so young, I was so dumb

Everything in front of me, now it seem like everything done

When I was Lil Wiki 550 split a dime and a dutch just to get me a blunt

You know what feeling I miss?

When you get outta school on a Friday and everything lit, nobody givin' a fuck

Whole city at our disposal, we run the streets and we roast you

We would get high, we would try any fucking drug that we was exposed to

We knew the delis that sold you brew but now all them delis is closed too, huh

Along with all of the spots we grew up and grew close to

Back then, back then

Back then, back then

Hardwood classic throwback

Head band, wristband, Nike check

Lloyd Banks in my Discman

Murder Inc. Ja, we was off that

Copped mixtapes from the Nigerians

Lunch third period where all the girls bitchcurious

And they all seemed so mysterious

I was just 14, so green, so inexperienced

Just keepin' up with appearances

Step pop cops out, poor jeans on clearance

So I got a shitty full-time gig for sneakers

How I look in Phat Farm shell tops?

Hell no

When it hit full I was involved

Put my clothes in Vogue, this new boy Jones

High school calling all weed strains Dro

Queens shit like low throwbacks

Authentic Du-rag, two-tone saggin Girbauds

Velcro straps over these Jake Velours

Had a pair of Constructs matched my conduct

My pops just passed, still a mind fuck

Same condom box for three years

Three bucks, Three sealed up, they collecting dust

Cause' the females, I ain’t really talk to them

Man that awkward phase felt awful huh

Why you always talk like that?

'Cause I got heart like that

Walked right back to the same place started at

Baby face with a Starter cap

When you had your hair grown out like Colin Kaep'

All you did was ball and rap

Never got your wallet snatched 'cause you never had a wallet then

All you had was all them friends all the way back then

Back then, back then

Back then, back then