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Back in the day I used to scrap
Iâm not a thug any more
But some days
I just wanna be the man again
Back in the day it seemed like every angry
Teen was talkinâ about packing a shank
And gettinâ cream â what happened to the gangsta lean?
Eric B and Rakim said: âWhat happened to peace?â
Now they askin' what happened to strength?
The women say they want girth now? Shit, what happened to length?
Sperm count goinâ down so we packinâ some blanks
And they laughinâ all the way to the bank
Man, things done changed! Where has all the violence gone?
Seems like people livinâ three times as long
Life just goes on, itâs like survival of the strong
Got swallowed by a Hobbesian Leviathan
And why not? Shit, I ainât tryinâ to abolish it
Women dominate men in college, I acknowledge it
So next theyâre gonna take over science and politics
And business, but I guess Iâm just kinda nostalgic
I mean, at least fighting men know who they are
You meet a soldier he can show you some scars
But muscle canât win a contest over some jobs
So now weâre just good for opening jars
I used to be the man
But time has gone on ahead of me
And my strong hands
But I'm still holdin' on, movin' on
I was the man
Time has not been so good to me
And my hands
I'm still holdin' on
I was the man
What a fuckinâ waste of upper body strength this is
I can dangle it for women like Iâm angler fishinâ
I got a voice full of bass, listen, ainât it pimpinâ?
But it came from male-on-male competition
And Iâm afraid thatâs a thing of the past
I mean things fall apart, donât be thinkinâ they last
But I keep lookinâ for some answers when I listenâ to rap
Like lookinâ for the missing link in the grass
So where the gangsters at? The males barinâ they teeth
Starinâ at weak opponents like: âI dare you to speakâ
The Menace to Societies and American Meâs
Not these wealthy, frail, weak, self-parodies
I mean, things done changed! Can you believe it?
Even the frickinâ crime rate seems to be dippinâ
And some people give police credit, but Iâm with Steven Levitt
High risk fetuses are being rejected
Just âcause females get to control their own fertility
So murder and poverty drop, but not sociability
What happened to the criminals on killing sprees
Instead of fighting now, we all show civility
I used to be the man
But time has gone on ahead of me
And my strong hands
But I'm still holdin' on, movin' on
I was the man
Time has not been so good to me
And my hands
I'm still holdin' on
I was the man
Forty percent of men historically left descendents
While six out of ten died young or got rejected
Big winners and big losers, but women had it different
Eight out of ten of them had children who had children
And you wonder why weâre fuckinâ obsessed with competition
Homo sapien males, yeah blazinâ a trail
Makinâ amazing creative displays, and chasinâ tail
That lasts an extra decade when itâs grey and frail
Yeah, the Y Chromosome is a fucked-up mutation
And it sucks to face it, they call her 'Mother Nature'
But if you want love from her, well, get accustomed to waitinâ
âCause, brother, if youâre male she loves to hate you
She gives us testosterone, rage, and frustration
She gives us jealousy and lust, and a hunger for greatness
Plus our obsession with female reproduction is basic
But the women gotta have choice. Fuck the 'Bush Administration'
Times change, this ainât the Pleistocene
Feminism and civil rights have arrived on the scene
And not every guy is keen to let the violence be
I'm just tryin' to tame the beast inside of me
I used to be the man
But time has gone on ahead of me
And my strong hands
But I'm still holdin' on, movin' on
I was the man
Time has not been so good to me
And my hands
I'm still holdin' on
I was the man
Back in the day I used to scrap
Iâm not a thug any more
But some days
I just wanna be the man again
- Album:
- Big Boy In Love
- The Canterbury Tales Remixed
- The Rap Guide to Evolution: Revised
- The Rap Guide to Business - EP
- The Rap Guide to Human Nature
- Rapconteur
- Apocalyptic Utopian Dreams In the Western Wilderness
- The Rap Guide to Evolution
- The Rap Canterbury Tales
- Lit Hop
- Swordplay
- The Rap Guide to Religion
- The Rap Guide to Medicine