things done changed

• notorious big'nin en güzel şarkılarından biri. ''because the streets is a short stop: either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.'' dizeleriyle amerikan gettolarını özetlemiştir.
  
  (bkz: sözlerini de yazayım tam olsun)
  
  [hook]
  back in the day
  things done changed on this side
  remember they used to thump but now they blast, right [x4]
  
  [verse 1]
  remember back in the days when niggas had waves
  cazal shades and corn braids
  pitching pennies, honeys had the high-top jellies
  shooting skelly, motherfuckers was all friendly
  lounging at the barbecues, drinking brews
  with the neighborhood crews, hanging on the avenues
  turn your pagers to 1993
  niggas is getting smoked, g: believe me
  talk slick, you get your neck slit quick
  cause real street niggas ain't having that shit
  toting tecs for rep, smoking blunts in the project
  hallways, shooting dice all day
  wait for niggas to step up on some fighting shit
  we get hype and shit and start lighting shit
  so step away with your fist-fight ways
  motherfucker, this ain't back in the days -
  but you don't hear me though
  
  [hook]
  
  [verse 2]
  no more coco-levio 1, 2, 3
  1, 2, 3.. all of this, to me, is a mystery
  i hear you motherfuckers talk about it
  but i stay seeing bodies with the motherfucking chalk around it
  and i'm down with the shit, too
  for the stupid motherfuckers want to try to use kung-fu
  instead of a mac-10, he tried scrapping
  slugs in his back and that's what the fuck happens
  when you sleep on the street
  little motherfuckers with heat want to leave a nigga 6-feet deep
  and we coming to the wake
  to make sure the crying and commotion ain't a motherfucking fake
  back in the days, our parents used to take care of us
  look at em now: they even fucking scared of us
  calling the city for help because they can't maintain
  damn, shit done changed
  
  [hook]
  
  [verse 3]
  if i wasn't in the rap game
  i'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game
  because the streets is a short stop:
  either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot
  shit, it's hard being young from the slums
  eating 5 cent gums, not knowing where your meal's coming from
  and now the shit's getting crazier and major
  kids younger than me, they got the sky brand pagers
  going out of town, blowing up
  6 months later, all the dead bodies showing up
  it make me wanna grab the 9 and the shotty
  but i gotta go identify the body
  damn, what happened to the summertime cookouts?
  every time i turn around, a nigga getting took out
  shit, my momma got cancer in her breast
  don't ask me why i'm motherfucking stressed, things done changed
  
  [hook]
• ready to die gibi 90’lar rap müziğinin referans noktası olarak oybirliğiyle kabul görmüş efsaneler efsanesi bir albümün ilk şarkısıdır. albümün ve big’in kariyeri için gerekli ton ve tavrı belirlemesiyle the notorious b.i.g. diskografisindeki en kritik eserlerden biridir şüphesiz.
• siyahi ghettolarındaki değişimi konu alan biggie smalls parçası.