CHORUS 1

NO LONGER LOOKING BEHIND ME MY BACK’S AGAINST THE WIND MY NIGGAS REMIND ME OF WHOSE A FOE OR WHOSE A FRIEND ON THE BLOCKS IS WHERE YOU’LL FIND ME TILL THE BITTER END I HEAR YA RIGHT NOW THIS LIFE IS SWEET I PRAY MY SOUL TO KEEP
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN POPS FIRST LEFT AND MAMMA GOT HOOKED ON THAT SHIT DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN SNOOP CAME OUT NIGGAS REALLY THOUGHT WE COULD GET RICH DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE HOMMIE GOT KILLED I SWEAR I NEVER CRIED SO HARD DO YOU REMEMBER IT WAS EITHER DRINA OR CHRISTINA LAST GIRL TO EVER BREAK MY HEART DO YOU REMEMBER

VERSE

SURE SURE FIRST BIKE WAS A TEN SPEED SKIPPED THE LITTLE COURSE STRAIGHT TO THE TIMPIE NOW THAT’S KG BEFORE LEBRON JAMES ASK MOMMA I WAS PRIME FOR THE DOPE GAME UNDER TUTELAGE AND NIGGAS REALLY DO THIS SHIT I CALLED THEM UNCLE SAY DOLLARS IN MY PIGGY BANK FOOD STAMPS GOT ME FEELING SECOND RATE NO GEAR NO MONEY NEVER GET TO SECOND BASE I WANT TO BE LIKE CAM NOW CAM HAD THE SHAM THE WHOLE HOOD LOVED HIM AND HIS CHICK ARE PRETTY RED HOW CAN YOU BLAME ME I’M GOOD AS WHO TRAINED ME CAN’T BE IN THE HOUSE WHEN IT’S A HUNDRED NO A.C. SAY WHAT YOU WANT TO CRACK EMPLOYED WHEN JOBS WOULDN’T HIRE CRACK FILLED THAT VOID QUITE A FEW FATAL NIGGAS AIN’T ABLE TO TELL THEIR STORY SO I MAKE IT MANDATORY I REMEMBER

CHORUS 2

PUSHING SPEECH FROM HERE TO STREETS JUST TO MAKE ENDS MEET AND WHEN MY PEEPS COULDN’T LEAD OH DO YOU REMEMBER MAKE MY LIVING ZOE’S FOR O’S OF GOLD AND THEM C’S CAN HEAR MY MOMMA ON THE CORNER AND SHE’S CALLING ME GET HOME STAY HOME AIN’T NOTHING IN THOSE STREETS (I HEAR YA) ESPECIALLY AFTER THREE
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN MY AUNTIE PASSED DRUNK DRIVER HAD HER FLYING THROUGH THE GLASS DO YOU REMEMBER RUNNING FROM THE ICE CREAM TRUCK CHILI AND THEM FRITOS THAT’S WHAT’S UP DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN EVERYBODY DANCED NIGGAS EVEN HAD ROUTINES DO YOU REMEMBER SLICK RICK SWAG DOOKIE ROPE FOUR FINGER RINGS DO YOU REMEMBER

VERSE

WHEN I HAD LAKERS STARTERS JACKET KEPT A KNIFE CASE THE OLD NIGGAS WANT TO JACK IT YEAH I WORE IT EVEN WHEN IT AIN’T MATCH I AIN’T HAD MUCH THEN BUT I HAD THAT WHOLE HOUSE REEKING WITH THE CRACK FUME MAMMA GONE NOW SHE SAID SHE’D BE BACK SOON SO I JUST SAID SHE DEAD WHEN THEY ASK ABOUT HER THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT THAT WAS SO COWARD YEAH AND FOR THAT I SINCE APOLOGIZE I NEVER BANGED CHANGED SCHOOLS EIGHTEEN TIMES OPEN ARMS NEVER WE WAS BRAWLING Y’ALL SWEEPING NEEDLES OFF THE COURTS WE WAS BALL’N ALL BACK THEN THURSDAYS WAS THE COSBY NIGHT SKIPPED A GRADE LOOKED OLDER CAUSE PAPA HEIGHT HAD TO BE A MAN BEFORE I KNEW MY TIMES TABLE BEGGIN FOR A CURL SEEING CUBE ON MY NIGGAS CABLE BEEN FOCUSED WHOLE LIFE BEEN AN OBSTACLE HOPING HURDLES HOMMIE DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE I LOVE THE HOOD BUT HATE IT AT THE SAME TIME OF COURSE I REMEMBER BUT THE BULLSHIT I LEFT BEHIND

CHORUS 3

DO YOU REMEMBER DO YOU REMEMBER CAUSE I REMEMBER I REMEMBER OH I REMEMBER
PRISON IN MY FUTURE MAMMA THOUGHT SHE LOST ME SEED PLANTED AND ITS GROWING LIKE MY POSSE WEIGHING ON MY CONSCIOUS FEENS THAT BE CAN’T BE DIFFERENT I DIDN’T KNOW IT BUT THIS LADY USED TO BATHE ME I AIN’T GOT THE STOMACH AIN’T AS TOUGH AS I THOUGHT BUT I’M TRYING TO PLAY THE ROLE IF YOUR SOFT YOUR LOST I REMEMBER I REMEMBER