nineteen ninety five was a wonderful time to be alive i reminiscence about back in the day maybe a little too much you know what they say about living in the past that s where you stay think about first time stepping on stage kick my little raps back when i was so brave walking through the crowd nowadays it feels strange walking on stage they don t recognize my face after the show standing in front of the place they come up to me they say what s your name you working on something coming out with anything i always say yeah but i don t really know though i spend every waking hour in the studio coming up with songs they ask me what s wrong shit sound hot i tell them hip hop i think about all the greats that came and died still stuck in the year nineteen ninety five was a wonderful time to be alive nineteen ninety five nineteen ninety five nineteen ninety five nineteen ninety five i used to hop the train listening to wu tang lightin l s in the stairwell with the butane i m so different now i guess things do change my old friends see me they be like you strange even my mother has a problem with how i do things playing too many games with all my new flames but i can t stick around when it gets too plain naw baby just gotta go i remember brandy the boy is mine and i remember monica at the same time yeah i remember rocking at st andrew s hall different place every night yeah i used to have a ball it was just something about nineteen ninety five close friends that died back then were still alive it was just a vibe source is the vibe 