I'm here to praise the past, let's raise a glass
This track is for your old-school mixtape champs
A burned CD? No sir, not me
I want the analogue ones that came with side-B's
To mix that style took mad time and effort
CD, Tape Cassette, and Vinyl Record
A good mixtape would take me 3 or 4 days
I'd have my headphones raised; rewind, record, pause, play.
Get a song she never heard, best collect the tracks,
And get the facts to move her neck and back
Pull a slow-jam, low down, pulling out sculpture
Don't want your phone number, rather know your culture
So that after we speak, I spend like half of a week
Getting deep on my mixtape masterpiece
Ain't a stereo that plays the mixtape ways
Come on man we ain't back in the days, like.
Back in the days of a girlfriend mixtape
Perfect prose to hit with a sick break
Nowadays you just burn a playlist
I don't care, that'll never be the same as...
Back in the days of a girlfriend mixtape
Perfect prose to hit with a sick break
A girl so cool, I'll get old school
Pull out the tape decks and pay some respect to a girl like you
I mix a tape for a girl like you
A good mixtape is my idea of romance
If she's got no taste, then we've got no chance
Original's critical, apathy's criminal
See I strive for the pinnacle, got no time to be cynical
Cos I live with that vision, how I love women
Independent, intelligent, and always crate diggin'
Can good love last? It all depends
On how she reacts when I duce my friends
This is Mahogany, twins name Ebony
King Rakim, and President Eric B
And if she treats them all like honoured guests
And eager to listen, just like Lord Finesse
She gotta love my boy Bob, why would I be with her?
And respect Kate Tempest, she's a fire spitter
Love Bill Withers, cos there ain't nobody smoother
Big up to Sam Cooke, they don't make him how they used to
Back in the days of a girlfriend mixtape
Perfect prose to hit with a sick break
Nowadays you just burn a playlist
I don't care, that'll never feel the same as...
Back in the days of a girlfriend mixtape
Perfect prose to hit with a sick break
A girl so cool, I'll get old school
Pull out my tape decks and pay some respect to a girl like you
I mix a tape for a girl like you