Old Thing Back - Chris Rivers, Chris Rivers feat. Lydia Ceaser

Sometimes I feel like

There’s no use in trying

Why can’t I face the fact

We’ve lost what we’ll never get back

I don’t know where

Where did we go wrong

I say I’m leaving but

My feelings are too strong

And baby, you know

You want that old thing back

That Nas, that 'Pac, that Biggie flow

You want that old thing back

That Naughty, that Tribe, that De La Soul

You want that old thing back

That hip-hop hooray (Hey! Ho!)

No baby (Hey! Ho!)

I ain’t going nowhere (Hey!)

I met this girl when I was six years old

The thing I loved most, she had de la soul and spirit

Knowing the difference between hoes and women

Flow so different, had bae once like Hov go near her

She kept on passing me by, that girl is poison

Became a thorn in my side, I guess it’s roses

What you think yo' shit smell like, I ain’t no outcast

But I couldn’t outlast so the shit went south fast

But I see you out back, no steakhouse

House at yo'

But it’s no biggie, you was juicy, used to use your words

Had to sit down with ya, Bonita Applebum

And know you’re feeling more like takeout, can’t make out, just make out

Still not a player though, never learned to take it slow

First you did some twister, then you learned to take a bone

A couple thugs had harmony, I never learned to stay alone

Got, see, I really wanna take you home

You want that old thing back

That Nas, that 'Pac, that Biggie flow

You want that old thing back

That Naughty, that Tribe, that De La Soul

You want that old thing back

That hip-hop hooray (Hey! Ho!)

No baby (Hey! Ho!)

I ain’t going nowhere (Hey!)

I miss you like my favorite song, I just hope you play along

When the train fell off the tracks, you pick it up and pick it up

You pick it up and bounce back, told me all about that

You never was a saint, you told me how to cook crack

Then gave me ten commandments how to push that

Kept the book back when knowledge never was a hoodrat

You told ebonics now

But getting looked at you never keep it honest

Getting lured to hell for that thing, I admit it, I was honored

But girl, it hurts to see you like this

It hurts to even write this, your worth is not a side chick’s

Your birth was in the projects, you gave so many projects

You always had a set list to uplift and now you set trip

You jump ship and landed on a yacht, forgot all that you got

Now you’d rather be a thot than a queen, Latifah

I was gonna clean my room but then I seen the reefer

Seen the leader

You want that old thing back

That Nas, that 'Pac, that Biggie flow

You want that old thing back

That Naughty, that Tribe, that De La Soul

You want that old thing back

That hip-hop hooray (Hey! Ho!)

No baby (Hey! Ho!)

I ain’t going nowhere (Hey!)

I felt untouchable in love with you, see we could box the Huxtables

Eat lunchables and grab some kid Caprisuns and chug a few

In touch with you and touching you like hugging you, these other dudes

Been running through fucking you, comfortable with nothing new

You scene switching, you lean sipping, you seem different

You queen killing and king stealing and clean hitting these licks

But never seen spitting, ain’t about all the skills, just about what is real

It’s like you made a 180 but double that was the deal

Remember I was young and had a little john and still you made me smash

Sugar, sugar, how’d you get so fly?

No Baby Bash

Never had protection, I just pulled out

Where’d you get ejections where the slick ricks get ruled out

A place with no place for what we used to be

Hope you take the scrutiny and realize that you screwed with me

M.O.P.

the brewery, the spilled milk alluded me

I still feel like the coolest breeze, I hope you find a use for me

You want that old thing back

That Nas, that 'Pac, that Biggie flow

You want that old thing back

That Naughty, that Tribe, that De La Soul

You want that old thing back

That hip-hop hooray (Hey! Ho!)

No baby (Hey! Ho!)

I ain’t going nowhere (Hey!)

Sometimes I feel like

There’s no use in trying

Why can’t I face the fact

We’ve lost what we’ll never get back

I don’t know where

Where did we go wrong

I say I’m leaving but

My feelings are too strong