[Intro - Gladys Knight]
Hey you know everybody's talking about the "good old days"
Everybody! The good old days
Well, let's talk about the good old days
[Raekwon]
Know what I'm saying?
Take you on this lyrical high real quick
1993 exoticness, know what I'm saying?
Let's get technical; where's your bone at?
Get up on that shit, a'ight? Yo!
[Verse 1: Raekwon]
Started off on the island, aka Shaolin, niggas wiling
Gun shots thrown, the phone dialling
Back in the days I'm 8 now, making a tape now
Rae gotta get a plate now
Ignorant and mad young, wanted to be the one
Till I got (Blaow! Blaow! Blaow!) felt one
Yeah, my pops was a fiend since 16
Shooting that "that's that shit!" in his blood stream
That's the life of a grimy, real-life crimey
And niggas know that habit's behind me
Day one yo, growing all up in the ghetto
Now I'm a weed fiend jetting to Palmetto
In Medina yo, no doubt the god got crazy clout
Pushing the big joint from down South
So if you're filthy stacked up, better watch your back and duck
Cause these fiends, they got it cracked up
Now my man from up North, now he got the loft
It's solid as a rock and crazy salt
No jokes, I'm not playing, get his folks
Desert Eagle his dick and put em in a yoke
And to know for sure, I got reck and rip shop
I pointed a Gat at his mother's knot
(Yo, Rae, don't do that shit, man! Don't do that shit! )
Fuck that!
[Hook: Raekwon (Ghostface Killah)]
Dedicated to the winners and the losers
(Dedicated to all Jeeps and Land Cruisers)
*Can it be that it was all so simple then?*
Dedicated to the 5's, 850i's
(Dedicated to niggas who do drive-bys)
*Can it be that it was all so simple then?*
Dedicated to the Lexus and the Ac's
(Dedicated to MPV's: phat!)
[Verse 2: Ghostface Killah (Raekwon)]
Kicking the fly clichés, doing duets with Rae and A
Happens to make my day
Though I'm tired of busting off shots, having to rock knots
Running up in spots and making shit hot
I'd rather flip shows instead of those
Hanging on my living room wall, my first joint and it went gold!
I want to lamp, I want to be in the shade
Plus the spotlight, getting my dick rode all night
I want to have me a phat yacht
And enough land to go and plant my own sess crops
But for now it's just a big dream
Cause I find myself in a place where I'm last seen
My thoughts must be relaxed, be able to maintain
Cause times is changed and life is strange
The glorious days is gone and everybody's doing bad
Yo, mad lives is up for grabs
Brothers passing away, I gotta make wakes
Receiving all types of calls from Upstate
Yo, I can't cope with the pressure, settling for lesser
The God left lessons on my dresser
So I can bloom and blossom, find a new way
To continue to make more hits with Rae and A
Sunshine plays a major part in the daytime
(Peace to mankind, Ghostface carry a black nine)
[Outro: Interview]
[Method Man]
It's like this, I'mma start from the top
Inspectah Deck, he's like
He's like that dude thatta sit back and watch you
Play yourself and all that right?
And see you sit there and know you lyin'
And he'll take you to court after that
Cuz he the Inspectah, that's why he the and
And also he the Rebel I.N.S
You know what I'm sayin?
And Shallah Raekwon, he the Chef
He cookin' up some marvelous shit to get your mouth waterin'
On some "O shit"
Then, then it's, then it's the Method Man
It's like mad different methods to the way I do my shit
[Raekwon]
You gotta smoke a bean in here, any how
[Method Man]
And I'm tellin' you, mine
Basically Method Man is like
Roll that shit, light that shit, smoke it
And then Baby U, he a psychopathic
He a psychopathic thinker
And and, then we got, then we got the Ol' Dirty Bastard
Cuz they ain't no father to his style
That's why the Ol' Dirty Bastard
Ghostface Killah, you know what I'm sayin'
He on some now you see me, now you don't
Know what I'm sayin'
And and, the RZA, he the sharpest motherfucka in the whole Clan
He always on point, razasharp
With the beats, with the rhymes
Whatever, any DJ
[Raekwon]
And the GZA, the G is just the Genius, hee
He's the backbone of the whole shit
[RZA]
It's self explanatory, Genius
[Method Man]
He the head, let's put it that way
We form like Voltron, and GZA happen to be the head
You know what I'm sayin'
[Interviewer]
Yeah yeah, that's cool
So what's like, I mean what's like your ultimate goal against in this
In this industry?
[Method Man]
Domination baby, fuck that
[Raekwon]
Can I say this one? can I say this one?
Right now, right now, we still, we still
Feel like we ain't get what we want yet
When we get, when we get, when we get a little props
And really really get the way we gotta go?
That's when you know it's on?
You know what I'm sayin'
Cuz right about now, I ain't braggin' or nothin'
But yo, the Wu, the Wu got somethin' that I know that everybody
Wanna hear
Cuz I know I've been waitin' to hear
You know what I'm sayin?
But straight up and down, 'till we get the goal
We gon' keep goin'
[Method Man]
Yeah, cuz we tryin' to do all this
We tryin' to make a business outta this, man
We ain't tryin' to-- know what I'm sayin'
Affiliate ourselves with them fake ass A&Rs and all that
We tryin' to make our shit
So that when our children, word
So that when our children, all our seeds and whatever
They got somethin' for theyselves right there
[Ghostface Killah]
We ain't tryin' to hop in and hop out right quick
Know what I'm sayin?
We out for the Gusto, and we gon' keep it raw
You know what I'm sayin' (word)
