BACK IN THE DAYZ versus NOW A DAYZ
BACK IN THE DAYZ versus NOW A DAYZ
Back in the days, I use to play, Now a days I pray
I’m just trying to stay awake and not get played
Combining spiritual learning with past life wording, now a dayz
While remembering street slang usage from now to back in the dayz.
As time does fly, meaning it swiftly passes by
Fly back in the day meant to dress real well
Nowadays Fly, is to verbally promise to punch
someone’s head!
Like Fresh is meant to represent just picked fruit or vegetables
But back in the day, Fresh meant you were somewhat nasty or perverted
Fresh also meant your clothes were properly and currently coordinated
Fresh has also meant that you were stinking!
As time does show that Fads do become Faded, which Nowadays means to be intoxicated! While back in the day a Fade, was a haircut with more on top than the sides Applejacks was a hat and then a cereal, now Applejacks are back like a serial
Back in the day Buddha was a type of weed smoke to get you high, while high back in Day meant you were perched in a tree, nowadays smoking trees, is burning weed to be high,
But back in the days, smoking trees was against the law because you was starting forest fires. Nowadays Buddha is recognized and accepted religious figure, come to realize, but I always knew smoking Buddha was a mystical and spiritual experience, feeling elevated. Then again Black was smoke then, nowadays its the definition of a people again De Hardest Hard with a brand name for weed back in the days too, also Meaning the meanest, toughest, roughest, brother on the block who could beat you!
Back in the day a Fiend, was a monster, like Dracula, Frankenstein or the Mummy Nowadays a Fiend, is characterized by constantly begging, or your mommy, sister, brother or uncle ‘s crack, crystal meth or heroin addiction. Not fearful of a fiend is the way now a days, just being sad or ashamed of the demon or monster they have become, but nowadays a monster can run up in you with the quickness, As Monster now a days is still to be feared, like in back in the day movies.
Cuz nowadays a Monster is a disease which causes a quick decline and fatality. AIDS back in the days meant to be helped, nowadays AIDS leaves you helpless
A stick up meant to be robbed, not an air freshener to be put up, nowadays Called a Jack means you had your possessions removed by one or more dudes. But back in the days Jack was the lowest denomination of anything you could receive
A snitch back in the days was term to denote a criminal turning in his associates, Nowadays a snitch, could be anyone, even if they only trying to help out their community,
At large, which also means in your vicinity, now a days large means you take up material space and that of surrounding vicinities…..Cuz nowadays Phat means style and culture, but
Back in the days Fat meant nobody really wanted to get wit ya. Cuz you carried weight Meaning back in the days you were hefty, now a days to carry weight means you are into
wholesale illegal drug activity.
Like back in the days a female dog in heat was called a bitch, Nowadays a bitch is both female or male person talking and complaining but never coming thru with solutions. Back in the days, MySpace, was a place where you paid all the bills And a Face book was tool used exclusively by modeling agencies , Black Planet was a derogatory term for ghetto by racists profiling our communities. Nowadays Black Planet is a place where all types of people meet electronically.
Back in the days Spirits was what Alcoholic beverages were called also the Spirits was the apparitions of vague personalities that do come out while drinking alcohol, nowadays Spirits still
be haunting many of folks, cuz back in the days we knew them as ghosts, which nowadays means to leave in a hurry, So thats why alcoholics and Spirtualists ‘ personalities are ghost
when they are drunk with Spirit.
Back in the days society meant you were living high off the hog, now a days a hog is form of motor bike and society is meant to encompass us all. A stunt back in the days was some theatrical activity nowadays a stunt is when you are not accomplishing anything. Shorty back in the days was a derogatory statement attributed to a persons’ height, nowadays a shorty is a nice looking woman or little children.
Nowadays a Crip is a member of gang that wears blue, back in the days a Crip was a person With a disability, that made you feel blue. Just like nowadays a Blood is a gang member who
Wears red, but way back it was the liquid racing throughout your body. To catch a body Nowadays means to murder, but back in the days body was just physical description of the
Human vessel and that is Word, which nowadays means a fact, but LOL, back in the days and even nowadays,
The WORD in the Bible is still absolute!
Ain’t nothing change in the game called LIFE, cuz no matter how or what you call it You Still Playing and it is Your Life!!!
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