Back In The Day Quotes

Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it’s kind of normal to do that.

Not to say that music today doesn’t have heart, but it’s really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.

Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock ‘n’ roll.

There are people creating Photoshopped pictures of me getting beat as if I were a slave back in the day.

It’s pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don’t have to. It’s totally different now to back in the day. Now you’re paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there’s some kind of connection.

I remember back in the day, when Jordan wore the 7s, something magical always happened. He always performed at high levels, but it was something different when he laced up the 7s. Some of the Jordans still have that juice that MJ left in them, and the 7 is one of them.

Today on social media, you can release anything and everybody will hear it. Back in the day, that was your only outlet, getting a deal with a record company and them distributing it around the world.

Today we’ve learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

True Blood’ is amazing. I have to give a shout out to ‘Melrose Place’ because I do watch. I love ‘Entourage.’ One of my favorite shows back in the day was ‘Friday Night Lights.

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

Me and my brother, Illa Noyz. We was smoking weed. A ton of weed. I had a friend who at the time sold weed, and it was just there. And we just smoke and smoke. I think we had about… and remember, this is back in the day, this might have been when niggas were still smoking White Owls.

I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

I think that, back in the day, there used to be a lot of horror films that kind of had a checklist of what went into making the ‘perfect horror film’, and I think now people are raising the bar in the industry, as far as the types of horror films that are being made.

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the “black people’s CNN.” Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It’s biased, and highly suspect.

Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn’t know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn’t know what they were talking about it.

I’m a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they’re making films where you witness violence in a real way.