Those Were the Days Lyrics

I write with my right hand, hold the mic with my left

2008 was the year that I'll never forget

I was full of respect but everybody kept hating

I was making beats every single day patiently waiting

I didn't waste any time I stayed busy writing

Recording tracks, playing it back it was exciting

I turn the volume up on max blowing out my speakers

Producing while homeboy was camping out for sneakers

It was dope we used to chill back and smoke

And freestyle, everybody seen how we spit flows

Nobody knew that I was hitting' up the streets

Late at night and tagging up the walls on the concrete

I skated around the block near the parking lot

Hit up a wall, I didn't care if it was dark or not

I stayed focused on school doing my homework

And then I went home alone and put the microphone to work

I was berserk on this shit I was addicted to it

Recording instrumentals and we used to listen to it

I was young but not dumb, everyone was fake

Ignoring all the bullshit, flowing to my beat tapes

I made albums full of music and the beats were sick

No one really heard we're like the best kept secret

Everyone was telling me that my music was lame

But I never let it get to me, they would call me insane

I couldn't remain the same, I had to change for myself

Back then I didn't really need any help

In 2010 I was still making music

Other rappers were talking loud but too afraid to do it

I was used to it, I never let it fade away

Every day I was jamming out in every single way

I let it play, it wasn't over when the beat stopped

My whole life changed when I fell in love with Hip Hop