Dimeji - Back in the Day (Jollof Rice) [feat. Astra-P] Lyrics

Mum cooked me jollof rice
Sis told me I look nice
The holidays of December times with the family, that was good times
It was VHS before Netflix
Before DVD's with the breakfast
Before my ex told me take the exit, watching Jim Iyke love an actress

Most painful part about growing up is my parents really getting older now
My mum was blessed with my dad, is this bad chick gonna hold me down
Cause as we grew older the shit got realer
Back when they told me I was a born sinner
Wasn't born sinning, just bop chilling next to mum
Watching this African magic
Who knew all my niggas will turn into addict and fiends
Tragic it seems
Thinking this Benz
This range would bring us this happiness and the ease that the happiness brings
If I get it I'ma really know
Almost lost my homie in his city though
He was born to win, born to ride
Bonafide Ph city up in waterside
Killing, homicides
Where niggas never let a dollar slide
Chilling on the side yeah
Two shots in the club tonight yeah
Two shots he was on his side yeah
Where I'm from ain't no paramedics on the streets, only leriq on the beats
Beggars on the streets, no prosthetics on their feet, the corners where they piss
Why I wanna go back in the time like konno
All I ever want was kicks and polo
All I ever need was sweets and zobo
Treats and yo-yo, gist and noodle
When mum cooked me jollof rice and all the homies was nice
Now it's all about checks on they checklist and checks on the nikes, Nice
Back when you could just rap on the track with the passion
And pack all the platinum plaques
Like back when you could just rock all black like batman
Tryna take it back like back when back when

Mum cooked me jollof rice
Sis told me I look nice
The holidays of December times with the family, that was good times
It was VHS before Netflix
Before DVD's with the breakfast
Before my ex told me take the exit, watching Jim Iyke love an actress
Like back in the day, back in the day
Yeah, back in the day, back in the day
Yeah, back in the day, yeah, back in the day
'Cause back in the day, back in the day
Yeah back in the day, back in the day
Back in the

Back in the day her role model was Liz Benson
Now it's only models in Benz's
Don't you know this life is expensive
Don't you know you might lose your friendships
And we used to talk when you used to call, now it's comments and mentions
That you scroll through
You call me old school
Like I should find it offensive
But there was a time everything had been timeless
Now we look ahead, while we forget bout everything that's behind us
I'm talking bout the very thing that defines us
The bigger our problems, the faster we grow
The present won't last, but the past never goes
Back in the day
When we all used to play
And just kick it and we didn't have all these goals
Just dreams we thought were all just dreams
Don't you remember how we used to keep in touch before touch screens
And share the deepest stuff, but now it's just memes
People talk and so trust seems
Next to nothing
I get stressed too often
God I hope that I don't take a step too sudden
I can't go back
And I can't just press a button
To when mum cooked me jollof rice
Sis told me I look nice
It was all it took for me to love life
To find happiness in the rough times
Before skinny jeans, before inventions
Like TV screens in four dimensions
I needed more than the attention
Before all of my adventures
Tell me you remember

Back in the day, back in the day
Back in the day, back in the day
Back in the day, back in the day
Tell you remember
It's P, Dimeji
Yeah, back in the day, back in the day
Mama I love you, mama I love you
Mama, I miss you mum