Next Generation

[Verse One] [Blueprint]

I'm sayin'...

A lot of thangs change

Fades and slang change

Clothes and change change

Back in the day bangin' Slick Rick and Dana Dane

Airbrush jackets, fat laces, name plates

Gold has come and gone, now platinum chains hang

A Dee with white tees all rockin' the same thang

Gazelles and finger waves to dreads and stunter shades

Went from G. Rap & Kane to Kanye & Lil' Wayne

I was a shorty then, I couldn't even stay up late

Still caught the bug when David Bowie sang of fame

Went from Reganomics, full black in '88

To Dre and The Chronic, red and blue to gang bang

Big ass computers, punch cards and mainframes

Now a little microchip can do all the same thangs

It's more modern now, I'm tryin' to maintain

It's all behind me now but things still seem strange

It's been a couple of years

But Greenhouse is still here

Had to figure out where we go from here but when I looked at the past it was crystal clear

I'm talkin' VCRs, Betamax, VHS

High buyer TDKs and grey Maxell cassettes

Now it's Netflix, TiVo and On-Demand

The death of the daily paper, get your news on the net

CDs, they 'bout to be gone next

It's all about your cell phones and Bluetooth headsets

Used to have the fliest Walkman

Now my Iphone give me GPS directions while I'm walkin'

Went from member's only, Lee jeans and Izod

To ?, Evisu jeans and Ipods

We used to actually sit down and write letters

Now it's all Facebook, Myspace, Twitter

Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan

Kobe Bryant, King James, Tim Duncan

If you livin', you gotta love it

The shit you feel the most is the shit you never saw comin'