[00:00.00]"Fuck yo, we gotta get this fuckin' loot, baby
[00:02.22]We gotta get this loot
[00:03.64]Yo back in the, yo remember back in the days
[00:05.99]When shit, everything was all smooth and calm and shit was like"
[00:08.73]"Where's my bone, nigga?"
[00:09.85]"Yo man, yo I'm doin' it God, I'm doin' it, man
[00:12.50]I'm sayin', like, no, no, like back in like in '70, fuckin' '79"
[00:15.62]"Everybody was on my line, man"
[00:16.81]"Nah, nah, '87, that was my favorite shit, God
[00:19.16]Polo shit, everything, everything was lovely, man
[00:23.65]Yo, come get the fuck out the rain, nigga
[00:25.59]Get the fuck, oh shit, who the fuck is that? Fuck
[00:28.27]Ayo Ghost, yo Rae, what's up with y'all niggas, man?
[00:30.86]What the fuck y'all niggas, ah"
[00:32.34]
[00:32.34]Hey, you know, everybody's talkin' about the "good old days," right? (Yeah)
[00:34.92]Everybody, the good old days, the good all days (yeah, the good ol' days, yeah)
[00:39.00]Well, let's talk about the good old days (let's talk about them shits)
[00:44.41]
[00:44.41]Know what I'm sayin'?
[00:45.35]Take you on this lyrical high real quick
[00:50.58]1993 exoticness, know what I'm sayin'?
[00:56.20]Let's get technical, where's your bone at?
[01:00.39]Get up on that shit, aight?
[01:02.66]
[01:02.66]Yo
[01:03.83]Started off on the Island, AK Shaolin niggas wildin'
[01:07.43]Gun shots thrown, the phone diallin'
[01:09.51]Back in the days, I'm eight now
[01:11.35]Makin' a tape now, Rae gotta get a plate now
[01:14.33]Ignorant and mad young, wanted to be the one
[01:17.41]'Til I got (blaow-blaow-blaow), felt one
[01:19.37]Yeah, my pops was a fiend since sixteen (word)
[01:21.88]Shootin' that "that's that shit" in his blood stream
[01:24.77]That's the life of a grimy, real live crimey
[01:27.69]If niggas know that habit's behind me
[01:29.98]Day one, yo, growin' all up in the ghetto
[01:32.80]Now I'm a weed fiend jettin' to Palmetto
[01:35.27]In Medina, yo, no doubt, the God got crazy clout
[01:38.48]Pushin' the big joint from down South (uh, uh)
[01:40.65]So if you're filthy stacked up, better watch your back and duck
[01:43.99]'Cause these fiends, they got it cracked up
[01:45.85]Now my man from up North, now he got the loft
[01:48.77]It's solid as a rock and crazy soft
[01:51.16]No jokes, I'm not playin', get his folks
[01:53.74]Desert Eagle his dick and put him in a yoke (ah)
[01:56.40]And to know for sure, I got wreck and rip shop
[01:59.32]I pointed a gat at his mother's knot
[02:01.35](Yo, yo, Rae, don't do that shit, man
[02:03.18]Yo, don't do that shit) word up
[02:04.55]Fuck that (word up, nigga)
[02:06.99]
[02:06.99]Dedicated to the winners and the losers (can it be that it was all so simple then?)
[02:09.94](Dedicated to all Jeeps and Land Cruisers)
[02:12.39]Dedicated to the 5's, 850i's (can it be that it was all so simple then?)
[02:14.86](Dedicated to niggas who do drive-bys)
[02:17.34]Dedicated to the Lexus and the Ac's (can it be that it was all so simple then?)
[02:20.15](Dedicated to MPV's, phat)
[02:22.51]Nigga, yeah, yeah (can it be that it was all so simple then?)
[02:26.80]
[02:26.80]Yo
[02:27.54]Kickin' the fly clichés, doin' duets with Rae and A
[02:30.71]Happens to make my day
[02:32.51]Though I'm tired of bustin' off shots, havin' to rock knots
[02:35.50]Runnin' up in spots and makin' shit hot
[02:38.00]I'd rather flip shows instead of those
[02:40.12]Hangin' on my livin' room wall, my first joint and it went gold
[02:43.38]I wanna lamp, I wanna be in the shade
[02:45.43]Plus the spotlight, gettin' my dick rode all night
[02:48.72]I want to have me a phat yacht
[02:50.63]And enough land to go and plant my own sess crops
[02:53.90]But for now it's just a big dream
[02:55.80]'Cause I find myself in a place where I'm last seen
[02:59.10]My thoughts must be relaxed, be able to maintain
[03:02.13]'Cause times is changed and life is strange
[03:04.01]The glorious days is gone and everybody's doin' bad
[03:07.15]Yo, mad lives is up for grabs
[03:09.45]Brothers passin' away, I gotta make wakes
[03:12.19]Receivin' all types of calls from Upstate
[03:14.67]Yo, I can't cope with the pressure, settlin' for lesser
[03:17.91]The God left the lessons on my dresser
[03:19.85]So I can bloom and blossom, find a new way
[03:22.50]Continue to make more hits with Rae and A
[03:25.00]Sunshine plays a major part in the daytime
[03:27.42](Peace to mankind, Ghostface carry a black .9, nigga)
[03:32.77]Word up, it's on like that
[03:35.66]
[03:35.66]Can it be that it was all so simple then? (Yeah)
[03:41.19]Can it be that it was all so simple then?
[03:46.25]Can it be that it was all so simple then?
[03:51.39]Can it be that it was all so simple then?
[03:56.53]Can it be that-
[04:01.97]Can it-
[04:08.38]Was all so simple then
[04:12.52]Can it be that it was all so-
[04:20.20]Simple then
[04:22.88]Can it be-
[04:27.88]Can it be that it was all so simple then?
[04:33.31]Can it be that it was all so simple then?
[04:38.45]Can it be that it was all so simple then?
[04:46.64]
[04:46.64]It's like this, I'ma start from the top
[04:48.21]Inspectah Deck, he's like
[04:51.23]He's like that dude that'll sit back and watch you (uh-huh)
[04:53.91]Play yourself and all that, right? (Uh-huh)
[04:55.78]And see you sit there and know you lyin'
[04:57.94]And he'll take you to court after that
[04:59.66]'Cause he the Inspectah, that's why he the and
[05:01.51]And also he the Rebel I.N.S (uh-huh)
[05:03.31]You know what I'm sayin'?
[05:04.36]And, and Shallah Raekwon, he the Chef
[05:06.13]He cookin' up some marvelous shit to get your mouth waterin'
[05:09.04]On some, "Oh shit" (okay)
[05:11.10]Then, then it's, then it's the Method Man
[05:12.52]It's like mad different methods to the way I do my shit (mm-hmm)
[05:15.23]
[05:15.23]You gotta smoke a bean in here, anyhow
[05:16.52]
[05:16.52]And I'm tellin' you, mine
[05:17.53]Basically Method Man is like
[05:19.00]Roll that shit, light that shit, smoke it
[05:21.51]Know what I'm sayin'?
[05:22.52]And, and, and then Baby U, he a psychopathic
[05:25.66]He a psychopathic thinker (uh-huh)
[05:27.65]And, and, then we got, then we got the Ol' Dirty Bastard (uh-huh)
[05:30.74]'Cause there ain't no father to his style
[05:32.32]That's why he the Ol' Dirty Bastard
[05:34.13]Ghostface Killah, you know what I'm sayin'?
[05:36.36]He on some "now you see me, now you don't"
[05:38.22]Know what I'm sayin'?
[05:39.40]And and, the RZA
[05:41.19]He the sharpest motherfucker in the whole Clan
[05:43.20]He always on point, razor sharp (uh-hyh, uh-huh)
[05:45.31]With the beats, with the rhymes, whatever, and he DJ
[05:48.01]And the GZA the Genius is just the Genius
[05:50.05]He, he's the backbone of the whole shit
[05:51.95]
[05:51.95]It's self-explanatory
[05:53.53]
[05:53.53]He the head, let's put it that way (he a Genius, word)
[05:55.17]We, we form like Voltron, and GZA happen to be the head
[05:58.11]You know what I'm sayin'?
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[05:58.55]Yeah, yeah, that's cool
[06:00.22]So what's like, I mean what's y'all like
[06:01.56]Ultimate goal against in this in this industry?
[06:03.24]
[06:03.24]Can I say this one? Can I say this one? (Domination, baby, fuck that)
[06:05.39]Right now, right now, we still, we still
[06:07.97]Feel like we ain't get what we want yet
[06:10.04]When we get, when we get, when we get a little props (uh-huh)
[06:12.05]When we really really get to where we gotta go (mm-hmm)
[06:14.21]That's when you know it's on
[06:16.27]You know what I'm sayin'? (Mm-hmm)
[06:16.94]'Cause right about now, I ain't braggin' or nothin'
[06:19.78]But yo, the Wu, the Wu got somethin'
[06:22.04]That I know that everybody wanna hear
[06:23.76]'Cause I know I've been waitin' to hear (yeah, yeah)
[06:25.56]You know what I'm sayin'?
[06:26.58]But straight up and down, 'til we get the goal
[06:28.71]We gon' keep goin' (yeah)
[06:29.89]
[06:29.89]'Cause we tryin' to do all this
[06:31.35]We tryin' to make a business outta this, man
[06:33.29]We ain't tryin' to-
[06:34.09]Know what I'm sayin'?
[06:34.79]Affiliate ourselves with them fake-ass A&Rs and all that (word)
[06:38.05]We tryin' to make our own shit
[06:39.30]So that when our children, word (it's longevity out here)
[06:41.61]So that when our children get old (know what I'm sayin'?
[06:42.77]Our seeds or whatever they got somethin' for theyself right there (true)
[06:45.46]
[06:45.46]We ain't, we ain't tryin' to hop in and hop out right quick (word)
[06:48.14]Know what I'm sayin'? (Yeah)
[06:49.48]We out for the Gusto, man (we tryin' to stay here)
[06:50.83]And we gon' keep it raw
[06:51.87]You know what I'm sayin'?