Chorus (Cicero)

Thank you all the same, but I'mma be OK from here on in,
I want you to know that I'm just fine, cos with or without you I'm all in.


Verse One

Some people say why did I name my album Classic Was The Day?
Because I knew from the beginning I’ze about to pave the way,
some other Rappers didn’t fuck with me, I didn’t rhyme the same
and so they tried to throw they shade and talking shit around my name,
that’s kinda’ lame, but didn’t go from in and out my lane
and now they looking from a distance and they got no one to blame,
they feel ashamed, cos everything they said was just in vain,
but homie dripping from the tap don’t match with twenty years of rain,
are you insane? If you could never see it from the start,
I had this music in my heart and like Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth it’s not a game,
I went from people watching me on stage and taking photos with they bae
and now they sending messages with just a flame,
and now I reminisce about days when I was living up in Dennison,
now look at everything that I became,
today I’m getting messages from people who were hating on me,
wanting to collaborate, but thank you all the same, no thank you all the same...


Chorus

Thank you all the same, but I'mma be OK from here on in,
I want you to know that I'm alright, cos with or without you I'm all in.


Verse Two

Some people say I am the hardest working brother on a team,
and I’ve been putting out this music since the age of seventeen,
I had no studio, so had to go wherever I could be,
until an Engineer named Dillon told me bout the MPC,
I raised my two grand up to put my two grand down,
cos I was sick of making music with a tin-pan sound,
got these Beat-Makers looking at my wingspan now
and they be doing what I’m doing but this kid stands out,
I’m so in love and it started from the sound I heard Shaheed, Tip,
Phife, Maseo, Posdnuos and can’t forget Trugoy the Dove,
Mike G, Sammy B, Afrika, Dres, Mr Lawnge,
Jarobi, Queen Latifah and the sister Monie Love,
Prince Paul and the rest of the Natives,
cos they were so damn creative and yo’ they music befitting just like a glove
I really wish my music was released a little earlier than 1997,
but I wasn’t old enough, I wasn’t old enough...


Chorus

Thank you all the same, but I'mma be OK from here on in,
I want you to know that I'm just fine, cos with or without you I'm all in.