Then and Now - K Rino, K-rino feat. Point Blank, Ice Lord

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