Time Machine

[Verse 1: Illecism] Back in the day, back in the day I would go out & play with all my niggas Future Crip & Blood killers Robbers, drug abusers, & dealers Never ever thought we'd get older man Or go from learning Pokemon to how to poke a man Or thought bullets would replace water in our guns Me, him, & you would hold in hand Or me & you would be holding hands at his funeral I don't know when we went from pushing wooden wagons down a black road To putting wooden coffins under a black rose, but I suppose It's what the Devil like to see Where we from angel sightings are unlikely Never knew how nostalgic life could be until I hopped in my time machine & decided to go [Hook] Way back in the day Are the moments of which I dream As I rest in my time machine Way back in the night Being far from a place called home In the street being way too grown [Verse 2] Back in the night, back in the night I would start up a fight with any old Nigga on the boulevard Before I ever wanted a deal Illy would still pull your card I wanted what the OGs rocked so I transformed to the walking weed spot The bicycle hustler who recycled customers and made paper no Xerox Wonder if my bb gun that used to pop shots would have evolved to an AK, like Stealing candy from the mom & pop shop Then to armed robbery in broad daylight for my peeps The streets taught us all kinds of things like getting ugly to possess finer things If I was still there, where would I be? Dead or in jail where no one could hear me sing anything about [Hook] [Verse 3] We no longer roam to the tree tops Write raps just to spit over a beat box Sell drugs, hoping fiends don't detox So tell us what's right, you need not Already know that we can't be stopped And you can't walk in the shoes or in these socks No one can tell you where the dream stops Cuz in my world we don't see clocks But mama said, "stop Acting like an infant, soon you may have your own infant Either go to college and study statistics Or be acknowledged a statistic", this is America's philosophy May be true for you but not for me If I don't know where I'm coming from won't know where I'm going So let me drive my time machine and go [Hook]