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WAY BACK WHEN
Reggae
WAY BACK WHEN was released on December 24, 2025 by Iyah Ites Records as a part of the album BRAINSTORM
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Release DateDecember 24, 2025
LabelIyah Ites Records
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM86

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Jabari Hylton
Jabari Hylton
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jabari Hylton
Jabari Hylton
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Malik James
Malik James
Co-Producer

Lyrics

It is only natural for man to strive toward a better life
To wish to educate his children while he himself was uneducated
To desire to shelter and clothe them
While he himself was naked and scourged by the elements
To strive to spare them from the cruel diseases by which he himself was ravaged
Ready now
Man a king from way back when
We stand firm we nuh shake nor bend
Bro got the flavours them
So we ago blaze up then
And light up a fire pon badmind
And all the haters them
Me lose a lot including faith inna mankind
But me learn from me failures them
Me realize
Tha life ya we a live it hard
Although it seem so nice
The girl did think right for me
She left and flee me sight
Couple dawgs behind the bars
It make it hard fi sleep at night
Me weeping like a little child
Weh need fi hear the sweetest voice
Of Mommy saying it's alright
But that memory deh well archived
Wish you cudda hold me
But me remember what you told me
She say man a king from way back when
We stand firm we nuh shake nor bend
Bro got the flavours them
So we ago blaze up then
And light up a fire pon badmind
And all the haters them
Me lose a lot including faith inna mankind
But me learn from me failures them
Getting high with the chalice
I and I nuh do malice
And like Haile Selassie
Me nuh shy
Me nuh novice
Shipment land kind of like the middle passage
Clip them ram that's why them call we savage
And like Sebi them
So we have the knowledge
No if nor maybe
You know we ever have it
And lately I been picking up some habits
Weh a make me a money making addict
Man haffi rich like
Mansa Musa
Ramp with who
Run mi food me will
Matter of fact
Nah do that
Me just loot you
To how me sick
Vomit start run and all flu too
Man a king from way back when
We stand firm we nuh shake nor bend
Bro got the flavours them
So we ago blaze up then
And light up a fire pon badmind
And all the haters them
Me lose a lot including faith inna mankind
But me learn from me failures them
Me say me learning
Every day me haffi get the earning
The desire it burning
A the riches weh me yearning for
Written by: Jabari Hylton
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