Beautiful Summer

[Intro]
Yeah, okay
Elohim shit
Beautiful summer, uh
Then when summer was all good
When niggas wouldn't try and murder you
Just 'cause it's a nice day
Check, uh

[Verse]
Remember the summer before the shooters
Everybody showin' off at the pool like it's Bermuda
Before kids was glued to they computers
It was skateboards, karate shoes and new scooters
Block party, BBQs, DJs
Water plugs, bad ass kids, we from the PJs
Pretzels, and water ices for every heatwave
But now when it's hot you losin' ya life these days
40 ounces and Phillie blunt smoke
Not a shot fired, the little kids can jump rope
We opened up the sunroof to let the funk through
We let the tape deck bump 'til the trunk broke
NPVs and Cherokee Jeeps
Quarter waters and Kool-Aid, shit was syrupy sweet
Summer jobs, Reeboks, new pair every week
Motorola pager, I remember hearin' the beeps
Come on, handball court with the older heads
I grew up off the juice so I know the ledge
That's around the time I was growin' dreads
Same time my brother died, nigga hold ya head
Fresh cuts at the barbershop
Then we hit The Plateau to play the parking lot
Everybody outside if it's dark or not
Now that's a party, we all takin' Bacardi shots
South Street in the nighttime
That's when the city come alive, that's the lifeline
All we did was dress fly and write rhymes
I reminisce, I guess we see it next lifetime
I'm lookin' back just puffin' my haze
I'm sentimental, so what, I guess I'm stuck in my ways
We was fist fightin' it all, now they duckin' the fade
Shootin' innocent bystanders, got 'em duckin' them strays
Where I'm from, ain't no Crip or a Blood
Niggas'll kill you over nothin', leave you crippled in blood
I drop a tear as I'm hittin' the bud
I paint a picture real clear, damn I miss how it was
It's PAYNE!!!

[Outro]
Beautiful summer shit, man
I don't know if you know what I'm talkin' about, man
Big wheels, (?), jump ropes
The whole 9 man, weren't nobody gettin' murdered
Nobody got shot, none of that shit, man
Y'all can't relate though
The Elohim, nigga