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[00:05.59]I was just a little girl (little girl)
[00:08.08]Skinny legs, a press and curl (a press and curl)
[00:10.39]My mother always thought I'd be a star (my mother always thought I'd be a star)
[00:15.54]But way before the record deals
[00:17.60]Streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill (uh-huh)
[00:20.41]Made sure that I'd never go too far (well, what up? Yeah)
[00:25.29]Every ghetto, every city
[00:27.81]And suburban place I been
[00:30.32]Make me recall my days
[00:32.40]In New Jerusalem (you know, uh-huh)
[00:35.74]Story starts in Hoodaville (Hoodaville)
[00:37.96]Grew up next to Ivy Hill
[00:40.50]When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun
[00:45.92]"Kill the Guy" in Carter Park (uh)
[00:48.22]Rode a Mongoose 'til it's dark
[00:50.75]Watching kids show off the stolen ones
[00:55.62]Every ghetto, every city
[00:58.26]And suburban place I've been
[01:00.60]Make me recall my days
[01:02.79]In the New Jerusalem
[01:05.95]You know it's hot, don't forget what you got
[01:10.18]Looking back, looking back, looking back, looking back
[01:16.09]You know it's hot, don't forget what you got
[01:20.86]Looking back, looking back, looking back, looking back
[01:26.14]Bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel (well, that's a quarter)
[01:28.94]Springfield Ave had the best popsicles
[01:31.54]Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu (ooh-tah!)
[01:36.44]Main Street roots tonic with the dreads
[01:38.58]A beef patty and some coco bread
[01:41.54]Move the patch from my Lee's to the tongue of my shoes
[01:45.91]'Member Frelinghuysen used to have the bomb leather?
[01:48.87]Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick was together
[01:51.42]Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever
[01:56.42]You know it's hot, don't forget what you got (you know it's hot)
[02:00.64]Looking back, looking back, looking back, looking back
[02:06.46]You know it's hot, don't forget what you got (you know it's hot)
[02:11.17]Looking back, looking back, looking back, looking back
[02:16.90]Drill teams on Munn Street
[02:19.29]'Member when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef
[02:22.02]Moving Records was on Central Ave
[02:27.12]I was there at dancing school (dancing school)
[02:29.18]South Orange Ave at Borlin pool (uh-huh)
[02:31.88]Unaware of what we didn't have
[02:36.60]Writing my friends' names on my jeans with a marker
[02:39.60]July 4th races outside Parker
[02:42.26]Fireworks at Martin Stadium (oh, word, my love)
[02:45.33]The Untouchable PSP
[02:49.46]Where all them crazy niggas be
[02:51.82]The car thief got away through Irvington (lock it up, uh, uh)
[02:57.35]Hillside brings beef with the cops
[02:59.55]Self-destruction, record drops
[03:02.18]And everybody's name was Muslim (children playing, women producing)
[03:07.47]Sensations in '88
[03:09.66]Attracted kids from out of state
[03:12.07]And everybody used to do the wop (wop it out, wop it out, wop it out)
[03:17.56]Jack ya, jack ya, jack ya body
[03:19.82]Nah, the BizMark used to amp up the party
[03:22.81]I wish those days, they didn't stop
[03:26.05](I wish those days, they didn't stop)
[03:27.24]Every ghetto, every city
[03:29.98]And suburban place I've been
[03:31.85]Make me recall my days
[03:34.49]In New Jerusalem (every city)
[03:37.52]You know it's hot, don't forget what you got
[03:41.78]Looking back, looking back, looking back, looking back
[03:47.03]You know it's hot, don't forget what you got (you know it's hot)
[03:52.08]Looking back, looking back, looking back, looking back
[03:57.85]You know it's hot
[03:59.33]Don't forget what you got (you know it's hot)
[04:02.67]Looking back, looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:09.47]Looking back, looking back, looking back, yeah
[04:14.55]Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:20.66]Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:24.56]Looking back, looking back, looking back
[04:29.75]Looking back, looking back, looking back
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