Speed

(Intro - Phonte)
 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
 (Verse 1 - Phonte)
 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, tryin to get it off
 Beltline got me rushin like Barichnakof
 Pushin 80 miles per hour to this, call center
 Tryin to pick up a check I only see twenty percent a
 Until the weekend, it sound crazy when I'm sayin it
 But sleep is nice, got me forgettin what day it is
 Until my son two days with out speakin, looking for
 Reasons to keep my heir from goin off the deep end
 I take this shit personally, I'm makin moves
 But this treadmill lifestyle ain't workin for me
 It's from ya crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit
 And at the days end you still got nothing accomplished
 And it's just the way it's goin down, but on the real
 I think I need to slow it down and slow it down
 (Chorus)
 This joint is goin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 This really movin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me and you
 (Verse 2 - Big Pooh & Phonte)
 (Big Pooh)
 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
 (Phonte)
 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 you're 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 breaks
 And slow it down
 (Chorus)
 This joint is goin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 This really movin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me and you
 (Verse 3 - Big Pooh & Phonte)
 (Big Pooh)
 I let me 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 early morning late night times
 Amtrack Monday morning to come back rides
 Catch a couch on the weekend, a place I rarely did sleep in
 Tay (Phonte) car speaker knobs is tweakin
 Cause the way we be rockin it when joints is finished
 At the speed we be moving we could never be diminished
 (Phonte)
 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
 (Chorus x2)
 This joint is goin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 This really movin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me and you
 This joint is goin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 Just too fast for me
 This really movin too fast for me
 Just too fast for me and you