K-Rino - Then and Now lyrics

Man, I be thinkin' sometimes back when we
Was young, all the things we had
We thought it was like
The coolest stuff, man
Then times passes on and new
Technology brings in new stuff
It’s all good, man
Let me tell ya how we did it though

I listened to long play and wax
Records back when I was little
Them 45s where you put that
Round piece in the middle
Collecting football cards from anywhere
I could find them
8 tracks playing straight through ‘cause
You couldn't rewind them
Catchin' whoopings with that switch, yeah
That might be me
‘member when grandma used to have
That black and white tv?
A clothes hanger was the antennae, no
This ain’t a joke
We used to sit it on top of
The big tv that was broke
Rotary phones, man
I ain't seen one of those in a while
Seems like the number used to take
Us five minutes to dial
You'd be like brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, man
I wish I could show ya
And you'd be hot when you mess it
Up and have to start over
Gettin' poked by the loose springs
Comin' out of your mattress
Wearing' them tough skinned jeans with
Them thick knee patches
Plastic covering that good couch
Better not sit there
And hot combs got the house smelling
Like burnt hair so yeah

Years pass and the planet
Keep spinnin' ‘round
A lot’s changed when I think
About then and now
I love the past and the present
And I mean it y’all
I'm glad I’ve been here long enough
To where I've seen it all

Years pass and the planet
Keep spinnin' ‘round
A lot's changed when I think
About then and now
I love the past and the present
And I mean it y’all
I'm glad I've been here long enough
To where I've seen it all

Before the world was like it is now
Some of us remember
Summer days, no air condition
Box fan in the window
If you was driving and your
Beeper started beepin' like that
You pulled over to use the
Payphone to call people back
Wasn't no GPS system through
Your cell connection if you was lost
You had to stop and ask folks for directions
Hung your drawers on that
Clothesline without no thought
And back then we used to know
People's phone number by heart
And if a song came on the air
And you ain't purchased it yet
You could tape it off the radio
Straight to cassette
After school, everybody at that arcade, man
Twenty quarters lined up on that Pac Man game
And schoolteachers could paddle you
With pieces of wood
And if you had an Atari, man
You was big in the hood
Good Times and Fred Sanford, man
That sh still funny
And food stamps used to come in
Books like real money so

Years pass and the planet
Keep spinnin' ‘round
A lot's changed when I think
About then and now
I love the past and the present
And I mean it y'all
I'm glad I've been here long enough
To where I've seen it all

Years pass and the planet
Keep spinnin' ‘round
A lot's changed when I think
About then and now
I love the past and the present
And I mean it y'all
I'm glad I've been here long enough
To where I've seen it all

If you at the mall
Lookin' for a new girlfriend
Wasn't no lockin' numbers in
You better have you a pen
No computer for the DJ
Just beats full of bass
It was actual turntables
They was reachin' in crates
Encyclopedias was Google searches
In those days
If I had internet way back then
I'da made straight A's
VCRs to DVRs, having cable was rare
The hood looked out for the hood
People actually cared
Your homie had a busted up car
You'd straight ride in it
And if you did do some dope
You didn't take pride in it
A lot of things change over generations
It's wild we was scared of our parents
Now parents scared of the child
Even the hoop game is not the
Same as when I was little
What used to be a carry then
Is now a regular dribble
Evolution good or bad
I understand that trend because
I'm not even the
Same person I was back then so

Years pass and the planet
Keep spinnin' ‘round
A lot's changed when I think
About then and now
I love the past and the present
And I mean it y'all
I'm glad I've been here long enough
To where I've seen it all

Years pass and the planet
Keep spinnin' ‘round
A lot's changed when I think
About then and now
I love the past and the present
And I mean it y'all
I'm glad I've been here long enough
To where I've seen it all