Back In The Day

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha"
'Cause I'ma be okay
Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha"
'Cause I'ma be okay

I used to have a dream, now it seem that I'ma live it in real life
Getting free jeans, good weed, feeling real nice
Used to think that I was too short or too dumb
Just a newcomer to the game tryna do something
Used to running after ice cream trucks
But now I just stroll, lace my Nikes up
I'm a nice, clean cut, good looking individual
Filling up a notebook with rhymes when I be in the school
Learn quick that nobody here invincible
We feel big, but in reality, we minuscule
Try and make a million bucks before I reach my pinnacle
Supernova status from basically invisible
Growing up thinking it was cool to be a criminal
Until I saw a couple homies go down
See, now that isn't me or anything I'm finna be
I want the money, cars, hoes, clothes, a kid can dream
I used to talk to girls that wasn't even into me
Now they hit me up wanting intimacy
But nah, I got a girl and she down for me
My little Juliet chilling on the balcony
If I need it, she gon' run a hundred miles for me
Love me for me, not who I'm 'bout to be
And if they didn't believe, then I can do without 'em
'Cause at the end of the day I'm just Malcolm

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha"
'Cause I'ma be okay
Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha" (Yeah)
'Cause I'ma be okay (Hey, hey)

Just a little snotty nose tryna find his pot of gold
Staying up late on the phone, always calling hoes
Never thought I'd blow, no one took me serious
Now they see me walking down the street like, "Oh, there he is"
As a kid, anything was possible
But mama knows the hottest flow don't put me on the honor roll
Grades started slipping, the classes I be skipping
Tried to tell me that I was a fool, I wouldn't listen, no
As a younging I was playing pretend
My wonder years, never woulda thought they could end
Back, back in my glory days, way before the haze
A good night sleep had me energized for the day
When I would look up at the planets in they orbit
Before this life got distorted
Before the money was a plan
Before I ever thought that I would need to be a man
Something like a Peter Pan, nah, I ain't tryna grow up
'Cause being old sucks, I just wanna go nuts
Before I drank a beer or ever took a hit of weed
When entertainment was my mom's reading mysteries
Taking you back to them nursery rhymes
When I thought the world just deserved to be mine
Said I'm taking you back to them nursery rhymes
Back to the beginning, put the verse in rewind

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha"
'Cause I'ma be okay
Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha"
'Cause I'ma be okay

Back in the day, when it was a dream
Nobody believed in what I could be
But now I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha"
I'm laughing at 'em like, "Ha-ha-ha"

Haha, yeah
So this goes out to
Any of y'all, haha
That ain't tryna get old, haha