[00:00:00] Speed - Little Brother [00:00:04] This life have a ni**a hustlin' man [00:00:07] Niggas need to slow it down yo [00:00:09] Sit back just chill just relax speedin' down the roads of life [00:00:13] Yo check it [00:00:14] Another day to face I'm share croppin' in the paper chase [00:00:18] Take a deep breath and clear my database [00:00:20] It's afternoon I'm talking sh*t to my alarm clock [00:00:23] 'Cause I gotta face this world of capitalistic onslaught [00:00:25] Don't stop when I jump in the whip tryin' to get it off [00:00:29] Belt line got me rushin' like Barichnakof [00:00:31] Pushin' 80 miles an hour to this call center [00:00:33] Tryin' to pick up a check I only see twenty percent a [00:00:36] Until the weekend it sounds crazy when I'm sayin' it [00:00:39] But sleep is nice got me forgettin' what day it is [00:00:42] Until my son two days without speakin' looking for reasons [00:00:44] To keep my heir from goin' off the deep end [00:00:47] I take this sh*t personally I'm makin' moves [00:00:49] But this treadmill lifestyle ain't workin' for me [00:00:52] And from the crib to the lab to ya job to make a profit [00:00:55] And at the days end still ain't got nothin' accomplished [00:00:57] And it's just the way it's goin' down but on the real yo [00:01:00] I think I need to slow it down and slow it down [00:01:03] This joint is goin' too fast for me [00:01:06] Just too fast for me just too fast for me [00:01:09] Just too fast for me this really movin' too fast for me [00:01:15] Just too fast for me and you [00:01:18] I try to slow it down like Brand Nubian [00:01:20] But hypnotic tunes like this always do me in [00:01:22] Got a ni**a about to go and burn the road again [00:01:25] From first gear to fifth gear out of control again [00:01:28] And that's the way we rollin' in needed to chill and take a rest stop [00:01:31] 'Cause my job got me slavin' like I'm Dred Scott [00:01:33] Take a break nah ni**a you bet not [00:01:36] 'Cause that's when the respect stops energy drain [00:01:38] I need a blast like Hi-Tek got [00:01:40] So I can grab the mic and make your heads bop [00:01:42] With the microphone check one two it don't stop [00:01:44] Out of town on a quick escape [00:01:46] Hopin' to have a chance to slow it up and hit the breaks [00:01:49] And slow it down [00:01:50] This joint is goin' too fast for me [00:01:52] Just too fast for me just too fast for me [00:01:57] Just too fast for me well it movin' too fast for me [00:02:02] Just too fast for me and you [00:02:05] I let my life shine in between these papers lines [00:02:07] I write rhymes to incite minds [00:02:09] Spendin' time on this pipeline 85 North it's like mine [00:02:13] Goin' eighty-five to light minds goin' ninety-five to take time [00:02:17] Spendin' days in the rays of the sunshine [00:02:20] Many days those same rays went undefined [00:02:22] Now 40 East is where I go to have my best times [00:02:25] Three lanes goin' sixty to perfect rhymes [00:02:28] Tre dose master craft catch punch lines [00:02:30] We turnin' in a early mornin' late night times [00:02:33] Amtrack Monday mornin' to come back rides [00:02:35] Catch a couch on the weekend a place I rarely did sleep in [00:02:39] Tay car speaker knobs is tweakin' [00:02:41] 'Cause the way we be rockin' it when joints is finished [00:02:44] At the speed we be movin' we could never be diminished [00:02:47] With my energy replenished write a rhyme with puns [00:02:49] And all my similes intended speed out until I finish [00:02:52] Keep it on now we keep it and keep it [00:02:58] And keep it on now and keep it and keep it [00:03:02] We keep it on now we run it we do it [00:03:06] We keep it on now we do it we did it [00:03:13] We keep it on now we don't stop [00:03:15] Well it movin' too fast for me just too fast for me [00:03:18] Just too fast for me just too fast for me [00:03:20] Well it movin' too fast for me [00:03:22] Just too fast for me and you [00:03:23] Well it movin' too fast for me just too fast for me [00:03:28] Just too fast for me just too fast for me