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Coolio
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Verse one: coolio
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When I was a kid I rode crates on a skate
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And I ate everything momma put on my plate
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Niggaz walked around packin b-b guns
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Knock on yo' door and run, just for fun
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We went to the sto' and sold bottles fo' a nickel
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To feast upon a big bag of cheetos and a pickle
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You could get a soda foe less than quarter, and
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People used to speak even if they didn't know ya
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We fought in the streets like little black soldiers
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Shake hands, and still be friends when it was over
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We used to play tag and, hide and go seek, or
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Hide and go get it if we had a few freaks, but
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Now thangs changed, kids ain't the same
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They bang, and slang, and blow out brains
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I wish I could go back but, wishin is for suckers
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Life was so simple then
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Chorus one: ?
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I remember (I remember) ohhhhhhh
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When we used to hang
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On the porch, drinkin brew
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And now they drive-by (bay-bee)
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I remember (I remember) ohhhhhhh
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When we used to play
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Shoot-em-up, up and down
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But now they gang-bang (bay-bee)
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Verse two: billy boy
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Well I remember yesteryear like it was yesterday
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Runnin through the streets of onessa p-a
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I take you through my childhood step by step
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Daddy always told me to maintain my rep though
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Daddy was a dawg he ain't raise no punks
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In the midst of the trees we learned how to thump
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At the tender age of nine momma put us on a plane
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Next stop -- the land of the insane
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Compton california where the killers grow
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Forced to live a life that I didn't know
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Wore the wrong colors cause I didn't know the facts
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Call her bitch, caught a case, caught a slug in my back
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But I adapted quickly, suckers tried to get me
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Now the fools better run cause this just driveby billy
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Little black boy from the east
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Forced to be a killer, but I can still remember
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Chorus two: ?
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I remember (I remember) ohhhhhhh
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When we used to play
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Domino, on the porch
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But now they drive-by (bay-bee)
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I remember (I remember) ohhhhhhh
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When we used to have
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Army fights, in the smog
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But now they gang-bang (bay-bee)
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[coolio] back when I was a kid nigga
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We used to have this game called paperball
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(paperball? What the fuck is that?)
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Get a piece of paper, ball that motherfucker up
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And play with it! Hahahaha
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Verse three: j-ro
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I got tha alkaholik juice to wake ya up like a rooster
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Back when I was young, I used to be a booster
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Stealin candy from the sto', go to school, come up
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I had the whole playground, chewin all my gum up
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You know what I'm sayin? Playin still to the chest
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And I was the best, playin kickball at recess
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I play pop warner, golden pairs for the losers
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We used to hop corners on the fresh deuce cruisers
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Playin galaga, space invaders, eatin reese's
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I had all the women cause my tough skins had creases
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And it's been that way since day one
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Girls of the world ain't nothin but fun
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I used to watch dr. J, come through in the clutch
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Remember new zoo review, and starsky and hutch
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I remember lunchtime, we used to rhyme out loud
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Peace to the wop and the hip-hop crowd, I remember
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Chorus one
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Outro: ?
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Ohhh, my life, no no
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I do remember ohhhhhhhh
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I know you do
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I remember yesterday
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I remember when we played
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I remember yesterday, aoowwwwwww!
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I remember, hell, when we used to play
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In ghetto blocks through the dark
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I rememmmmmberrrrrr
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Yeahhh yeahhh yeahh
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We used to play dominoes all night long
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Dominoes all night long
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Yesterday, yesterday
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Do you remember yesterday? I remember yesterday
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You remember remember remember remember...
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