They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)

Album: Mecca and the Soul Brother (1992)
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  • (I reminisce, I reminisce-nisce)
    (I reminisce, I reminisce-nisce)
    (I reminisce, I reminisce-nisce)
    I reminisce, I reminisce, uh
    (I reminisce, I reminisce-nisce) yeah
    (I reminisce, I reminisce-nisce)
    (I reminisce, I reminisce-nisce)
    (I reminisce)

    I reminisce for a spell, or shall I say think back (yeah)
    Twenty-two years ago to keep it on track (uh-huh)
    The birth of a child on the eighth of October (it's like that)
    A toast but my granddaddy came sober (crazy facts)
    Countin' all the fingers and the toes
    Now I suppose (uh), you hope the little black boy grows, huh (yeah)
    Eighteen years younger than my mama (mama)
    But I really got beatings 'cause the girl loved drama (yeah)
    In single parenthood there I stood (uh)
    By the time she was twenty-one, had another one (yeah)
    This one's a girl (what?), Let's name her Pam
    Same father as the first but you don't give a damn (alright)
    Irresponsible, plain not thinking (yeah)
    Papa said, "Chill" but the brother keep winking (uh-huh)
    Still he won't down you or tear out your hide (right)
    On your side while the baby maker slide (slide)
    But mama got wise to the game (uh)
    The youngest of five kids, hon' here it is (yeah)
    After ten years without no spouse (yeah)
    Momma's gettin' married in the house (word?), Listen
    Positive over negative for the women to master
    Mother queen's risin' a chapter (yeah)
    Déjà vu, tell you what I'm gonna do (do it)
    When they reminisce over you, my God

    My God
    It's so
    Yeah, so lovely
    That's how we like to do it in the 90s
    Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth comin' atcha

    When I date back I recall a man off the family tree
    My right hand Poppa doc I see (woo)
    Took me from a boy to a man so I always had a father
    When my biological didn't bother (yeah)
    Taking care of this, so who am I to bicker? (bicker)
    Not a bad ticker but I'm clocking Pop's liver (yeah)
    But you can never say that his life is through (uh-huh)
    Five kids at twenty-one, believe he got a right to (that's right)
    Here we go while I check the scene
    With the Portuguese lover at the age of fourteen (tell 'em)
    The same age, front page, no fuss
    But I bet you all your dough, they live longer than us (that's right)
    Never been senile, that's where you're wrong (uh-huh)
    But give the man a taste and he's gone
    Noddin' off, sleep to a jazz tune
    I can hear his head banging on the wall in the next room
    I get the pillow and hope I don't wake him (yeah)
    For this man to cuss, hear it all in verbatim (uh-huh)
    Telling me how to raise my boy unless he's taking over
    I said, "Pop maybe when you're older" (older)
    We laughed all night about the hookers at the party (ahh)
    My old man standing yelling, "Good God, Almighty" (uh-huh)
    Use your condom, take sips of the brew (that's right)
    When they reminisce over you, for real

    For real, baby
    Like that
    We for real
    Comin' atcha
    In '92
    Pete Rock and CL Smooth
    Yeah, c'mon, hit me

    I reminisce so you never forget this
    The days of way-back, so many bear witness the fitness (yeah)
    Take the first letter out of each word in this joint
    Listen close as I prove my point (my point)
    T to the R the-O-Y, how did you and I meet?
    In front of Big Lou's, fighting in the street (street)
    But only you saw what took many time to see
    I dedicate this to you for believing in me (uh)
    Rain or shine, yes, in any weather (yeah)
    My Grandma Pam holds the family together (uh-huh)
    My Uncle Doc's the greatest, better yet the latest
    If we're talking 'bout a car, Uncle Sterling got the latest (yeah)
    I strive to be live 'cause I got no choice
    And run my own business like my Aunt Joyce (yeah)
    So Pete Rock hit me, nuff respect due (uh-huh)
    When they reminisce over you, listen

    Listen, just listen
    To the funky song as I rock on
    And that's word is bond
    I'm not playin'
    Everybody, just coolin'
    This song we dedicate
    To the one and only
    Never be another
    He was my brother
    Trouble T-Roy
    It's like that y'all
    And you don't stop
    Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth for '92
    And we out, later Writer/s: Corey Brent Penn, Peter O. Phillips
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Royalty Network, Songtrust Ave, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Neil from Yonkers, NyThis song was released in 1992 not 1990. It mentions the year in the latter part of the song, "Pete Rock and CL Smooth for 92."
  • Mark from New Orleans, LaThis is the highest state of hip-hop, like Stairway To Heaven is to rock. I'd play this for anyone who doesn't even like rap and defy them to not like it. The song is very robust as it is tender, with its overall impressions giving way to a very calm and deep sense of retrospection.
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