T-Jin & Tha Real Kato - Back in the Day Lyrics

This track here is dedicated to the real ones
'Cuz nowadays everything seems to be so fake
We don't know reality, we don't know right from wrong
So this song's for y'all, let's go

You couldn't pay me enough for my soul to be sold
You couldn't pay me enough for my soul to be sold

Started writing my rhymes back in '98
Didn't see it back then but I'm kinda great
I grew up in a time when you couldn't be fake
My real ones showing real love, never no hate

No social media, Wikipedia
N*ggaz couldn't slide up in my DM
And if a muthaf*cka talked slick better believe
The next day we would go out and go see them

Nowadays they be like: 'pull up to what?'
You be sitting somewhere way across the country
With a durag on and a bag of Cheetos,
Fake jewelry, listening to Migos

Y'all ain't emcees though, I'm back in beast mode
I got my homies and y'all gon' need mo
Heat to compete, I do it for my people
None my equal, it's on now

Always on my own
I am growing but got my homies back
I'm back in my zone
Thought I told you I'd get that focus back
Now I know that absolutely nobody can hold me back
I've noticed that there's no going back
Please don't hold me back

Remember back in the day
When you had to be real
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just don't
Get it, I'll never be fake
And everything's plastic
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just can't
Remember back in the day
When you had to be real
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just don't
Get it, I'll never be fake
And everything's plastic
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just can't

I just can't relate
Try to sit back and meditate
'Cuz I see they depressed all day
All they do is self-medicate

I have to stay true to myself
I cannot pay the consequences of your actions
Sorry, baby, but I have to get on stage

No, you can't get backstage
You don't have to ask every day
You didn't have my back from day one
So don't act like family, nah

Please don't exacerbate the situation
Set it straight or let the pain
Take you away and get the hell out of my face

Always on my own
I am growing but got my homies back
I'm back in my zone
Thought I told you I'd get that focus back
Now I know that absolutely nobody can hold me back
I've noticed that there's no going back
Please don't hold me back

Remember back in the day
When you had to be real
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just don't
Get it, I'll never be fake
And everything's plastic
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just can't
Remember back in the day
When you had to be real
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just don't
Get it, I'll never be fake
And everything's plastic
I can't relate
To people nowadays, I just can't

You couldn't pay me enough for my soul to be sold
You couldn't pay me enough for my soul to be sold

For all the day ones