[Featuring J Ro Billy Boy]

Verse One: Coolio

When I was a kid I rode crates on a skate

And I ate everything momma put on my plate

Niggaz walked around packin B B guns

Knock on yo' door and run just for fun

We went to the sto' and sold bottles fo' a nickel

to feast upon a big bag of Cheetos and a pickle

You could get a soda foe less than quarter and

people used to speak even if they didn't know ya

We fought in the streets like little black soldiers

Shake hands, and still be friends when it was over

We used to play tag and, hide and go seek, or

hide and go get it if we had a few freaks, but

now thangs changed, kids ain't the same

They bang, and slang, and blow out brains

I wish I could go back but, wishin is for suckers

Life was so simple then

Chorus One: ?

I remember (I remember) ohhhhhhh

when we used to hang

On the porch, drinkin brew

and now they drive-by (bay-bee)

I remember (I remember) ohhhhhhh

when we used to play

shoot-em-up, up and down

but now they gang-bang (bay-bee)

Verse Two: Billy Boy

Well I remember yesteryear like it was yesterday

Runnin through the streets of Onessa P-A

I take you through my childhood step by step

Daddy always told me to maintain my rep though

Daddy was a dawg he ain't raise no punks

In the midst of the trees we learned how to thump

At the tender age of nine momma put us on a plane

Next stop -- the land of the insane

Compton California where the killers grow

Forced to live a life that I didn't know

Wore the wrong colors cause I didn't know the facts

Call her bitch, caught a case, caught a slug in my back

But I adapted quickly, suckers tried to get me

Now the fools bette