You wanna bring it back to crack babies Bag ladies s**ing dick for pipes n***as throwing shopping carts off the roof to earn their stripes Grace by a stay quiet Freaks come out at night Let's bring it back boy, bring it back! In '89 before the Fresh Prince got to Bel-Air Eighty-nine percent of the n***as in my hood was on welfare So trade your debit card for foodstamps Say hell yeah! We'll bring it back, s**er, we'll bring it back! It wasn't just graffiti on the train Believe me, dawg, I'm saying I'll take you to the wall they did The night Yusef Hawkins was slain You wanna keep that dookie rope? You better tuck your chain Bring it back, son, bring it back! Now if I put my foot next to yours And say, "Yo, what size are those?" You got a long walk home I hope your socks don't got holes That boombox you're holding, duke? Don't think it won't get stolen Bring it back, b**hes, bring it back! Look ma, no shoelaces, I just got out of jail New kids on the block look up to me So this is fresh as hell You wanna be this [buy??] He'll take whatever I got for sale Bring it back, n***a, bring it back! You see a flat top and think House Party, Kid N Play But there's a lot about an era that a movie didn't say You want Do the Right Thing and Lean On Me every day? Let's bring it back, let's bring it back! Hey yo: Reganomics, AIDS epidemic, crime and poverty Random children sleeping in abandoned buildings follow me You're dressing up like it's Halloween, so obviously You want it back, kid, you want it back! Now just because you got it all good And they gentrified the hood You don't know what it means to hear a n***a say "I wish you would!" They let you live for now But believe me, if they could They take it back, homey, they take it back Hey yo: for you it's just a fashion For us, the [birth?] the pa**ion Originality and now I see you're trying to cash in Expression of oppression and you're biting like that see Give it back, f**er, give it back! Now when they look back on your legacy Will they see integrity? Or pseudo-celebrities who went and copied everything? 'Cause we came up with sh** that nobody had ever seen Let's bring it back, let's bring it back! I ain't meaning to insult ya Just speaking for my culture Don't want to see you ruined by the leeches and the vultures If you want to see it grow, then plant some seeds of your own Just give it back, f**er, give it back! F-R-E-S-H Fresh, fresh, fresh, yo that's fresh! Do ya want it? (Yeah!) Do ya like it? (Yeah!) If you can have it, would ya bite it? (Hell yeah!) It ain't yours!