00:00I remember Super Soakers, our trampoline, playing with the neighbor kids. What a happy scene.
00:07Super Nintendo and Game Boy when we had to be inside because of reasons we couldn't have foreseen.
00:14We even caught frogs and once a salamander in our window wells. It's funny because now they seem empty and long abandoned.
00:21Or we don't check anymore to see if they're still there. Oh well.
00:24And we used to get treats from the ice cream truck we called the Ding Ding Man for the bell that would ring or the song that would spring from that.
00:33Freeze pops. We called them freezies in the plastic sleeves. We got so high off the sugar that it was maddening. Our bikes we had to wheel. Those were the days.
00:43I wouldn't be here today if the old days didn't shape my ways.
00:49Cause back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore. But sometimes I think about how things have been back then.
00:56I went to Goodwin Elementary. I was the chunky kid that seemed like hell for me.
01:03Hot lunch I used to love but it was junk. But most days my dear mama she would pack a lunch.
01:10Recess we would scatter and have some fun. It wouldn't last too long but we would laugh and run.
01:16When we got older it was the teen center, sports, arcade games, and greasy pizza, and a movie in front of the seats that we'd be on.
01:26I couldn't sit for too long. I guess the movie was stupid or I just wanted to shoot some pool more.
01:32Cause those were the days.
01:34I wouldn't be here today if the old days didn't shape my ways.
01:39Cause back in the days when I was young I'm not a kid anymore.
01:43But sometimes I sit and think how things had been back then.
01:48That sure was the life.
01:50But we didn't know it.
01:51I didn't know much of poor folks.
01:53They didn't show it.
01:55We had family vacations.
01:57That was bourgeois.
01:58Because it takes money and time off from a time clock.
02:01When we would go to church I didn't know then that it would shape my moral stance and the whole thing.
02:09How was I to know some songs in Sunday school would be so fundamental for a gestational spirit.
02:16I guess I took it more serious than the other children.
02:19Or made the most out of all those lessons or maybe both things.
02:22Cause here I am after all reminiscing.
02:26But all I know is it made a mark and I'm grateful for that.
02:29And you know what?
02:30Life's as good as it was then.
02:32So I'll go on and see where the rope ends and where it ends.
02:42Damn.
02:44Here we go again.
02:46Everything I got made me everything I am.
02:49Damn.
02:52Damn.
02:53Damn.
02:56Damn.
02:57Common rapped on a beat.
02:59I made myself a fan.
03:01Now everything I got made me everything I am.
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