Speed - Little Brother

This life have a nigga hustling man

Niggas need to slow it down yo

Sit back just chill just relax

Speeding down the roads of life

Yo check it

Another day to face, I’m share cropping in the paper chase

Take a deep breath and clear my database

It’s afternoon I’m talking shit to my alarm clock

Cause I gotta face this world of capitalistic onslaught

Don’t stop when I jump in the whip, trying to get it off

Beltline got me rushing like Baryshnikov

Pushing 80 miles per hour to this, call center

Trying to pick up a check I only see 20 percent of

Until the weekend, it sound crazy when I’m saying it

But sleepless nights got me forgetting what day it is

Until my son two days with out speaking, looking for

Reasons to keep my head from going off the deep end

I take this shit personally, I’m making moves

But this treadmill lifestyle ain’t working for me

It’s from your crib to the lab to your job to make a profit

And at the days end you still got nothing accomplished

And it’s just the way it’s going down, but on the real, yo

I think I need to slow it down, and slow it down

This joint is going too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

This really moving too fast for me

Just too fast for me and you

I try to slow it down like Brand Nubian

But hypnotic tunes like this always do me in

Got a nigga about to go and burn the road again

From first gear to fifth gear out of control again

And that’s the way we rolling in, needed to chill

And take a rest stop cause my job got me slaving like I’m Dred Scott

Take a break nah nigga you betta not, cause that’s when the respect stops

Energy drain, I need a blast like Hi-Tek got

So I can grab the mic and make your heads bop

With the microphone check, one two it don’t stop

Out of town on a quick escape

Hoping to have a chance to slow it up and hit the brakes

And slow it down

This joint is going too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

This really moving too fast for me

Just too fast for me and you

I let my life shine in between these papers lines

I write rhymes to incite minds

Spending time on this pipeline, eighty-five

North it’s like mine, going eighty five to light minds

Going ninety five to take time

Spending days in the rays of the sunshine

Many days those same rays went undefined

Now forty east is where I go to have my best times

Three lanes going sixty to perfect rhymes

Tre dose and master craft catch punch lines

We turning into early morning late night times

Amtrak Monday morning to come back rides

Catch a couch on the weekend, a place I rarely did sleep in

Te car speaker knobs is tweaking

Cause the way we be rocking it when joints is finished

At the speed we be moving we could never be diminished

With my energy replenished write a rhyme with puns and

All my similes intended speed out until I finish

Keep it on now

We keep it, and keep it, and keep it on now

And keep it, and keep it, we keep it on now

We run it, we do it, we keep it on now

We do it, we did it, we keep it on now

We don’t stop

This joint is going too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

This really moving too fast for me

Just too fast for me and you

This joint is going too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

Just too fast for me

This really moving too fast for me

Just too fast for me and you