[00:00.000] 作曲 : Jonathan Scott[00:01.907]Yeah, ahh yeah[00:05.096]Back in the days (3X)[00:16.184]Back in the days (2X)[00:21.473]Back in the days of eighty-three[00:23.322]Breakdancin at the crib with my man Dupri[00:26.177]When the Saturday nights was LIVE in the West[00:28.956]When honies were fly, the flavor was good but[00:31.755]on the burnt side, was where it took place[00:34.178]On the cheap sound system without no bass[00:36.500]Coolin with my man DayDay, the DJ Machete[00:39.099]I want a record deal, but I knew I wasn't ready[00:42.000]But back then I still had more fun[00:44.398]I even rode around my guy the rookie named Michael Jordan[00:46.165]Long before Tag Team and 95 South[00:49.695]Real Planet Rock shit used to funk the house[00:51.994]But the schoolyard Crips and PPD's were too rowdy[00:54.797]Some of them started rollin to the ?dotua? parties[00:57.449]My dance group called the Frat Boys was winnin[00:59.490]The parties was live cause General Lee was spinnin[01:01.394]When the summer came I was off to the Ridge[01:04.725]With my pen and my pad, I met new kids[01:07.649]Marty Mar, a.k.a. the Big Mo[01:09.939]Big Ben, Af Rock, yo we stole the show[01:12.627]Makin tapes all the time, it's like I couldn't quit[01:15.204]But when I listen to em now I'll admit[01:18.010]That it wasn't alla that in fact we was wack[01:20.595]But every now and then, huh, I wanna go back[01:23.732]Back in the days[01:26.844]I wanna go back in the days (4X)[01:37.633]I wanna go back (2X)[01:42.321]Spring eighty-seven, down with the four man crew[01:45.652]Kool Kat, Disco, and my man Steve Blue[01:48.886]No record deal, but I was still rhymin[01:51.547]Big Mo hooked me with a kid named Diamond D[01:53.742]Not the one from the East he went to school in Arizona[01:57.118]said he liked the way I rocked the microphone-a[01:59.307]We knew our, producer, but he was a flake[02:02.082]That lived in the projects, said we had to wait[02:04.463]Sittin in the car for hours at a time, buckin bullets down[02:07.390]But that's how bad I wanted to rhyme[02:09.689]Back when the hip-hop shit always had the airplay[02:12.637]The best station in nation which was KDAY[02:15.038]I got serious about my flow[02:16.585]Hooked up with a brother that they call Domino[02:19.924]And Diamond quit and left the twelve, over at my crib[02:22.517]I hooked it up to my cassette player, tell you what I did[02:25.157]I would pause mix breaks, whatever it would take[02:27.743]I only had three records couldn't dig in any crates[02:30.528]And there was times when I wanted to stop flowin but my[02:32.343]best friend and lover Ajay, yo, she said to keep goin[02:35.279]When all we had to eat was cup of noodles in the six pack[02:37.920]Cause I went and spent all my ducats on the six track[02:40.789]On the real, no food in the fridge[02:41.808]But when I won the rap contest at Northridge[02:45.561]Everybody flipped, yo we didn't know how to act[02:48.410]Daaam, I wanna go back[02:53.073]I wanna go back[02:55.133]I wanna go back in the days (6X)[03:11.313]Bill Duke, a well known deep brother[03:14.217]Hooked me with the soundtrack on Deep Cover[03:16.863]That's how I met Belial, from the Bronx[03:19.227]He had more beats that house ****** got conks[03:21.978]Showed me all kind of beat makin tricks[03:24.210]Just like Machete showed me how to pause mix[03:26.542]and I was married to the **** like a husband to a wife[03:28.446]But when I tried to rhyme up at the Good Life[03:32.223]Yo I got dissed I couldn't buy no respect[03:34.450]But in two years I came back to catch wreck[03:37.210]On the set and jet, cause that's how it had to be[03:39.391]And my man Tragedy became amazed at me[03:42.260]So he put me inside, the Cadillac[03:44.529]The chaffeur drove off, and now I can't go back[03:48.423]Hahaha, back in the days[03:51.289]I wanna go back in the days (6X)[04:06.792]I wanna go back (4X)