Speed-Little Brother

[ti:Speed] [ar:Little Brother] [al:The Listening] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.70]Speed - Little Brother [00:02.14] [00:04.25]This life have a ni**a hustlin' man [00:06.38] [00:07.62]Niggas need to slow it down yo [00:09.26]Sit back just chill just relax speedin' down the roads of life [00:13.69]Yo check it [00:14.58]Another day to face I'm share croppin' in the paper chase [00:18.71]Take a deep breath and clear my database [00:20.76]It's afternoon I'm talking sh*t to my alarm clock [00:23.20]'Cause I gotta face this world of capitalistic onslaught [00:25.63]Don't stop when I jump in the whip tryin' to get it off [00:29.19]Belt line got me rushin' like Barichnakof [00:31.13]Pushin' 80 miles an hour to this call center [00:33.94]Tryin' to pick up a check I only see twenty percent a [00:36.81]Until the weekend it sounds crazy when I'm sayin' it [00:39.37]But sleep is nice got me forgettin' what day it is [00:42.31]Until my son two days without speakin' looking for reasons [00:44.88]To keep my heir from goin' off the deep end [00:47.38]I take this sh*t personally I'm makin' moves [00:49.68]But this treadmill lifestyle ain't workin' for me [00:52.01]And from the crib to the lab to ya job to make a profit [00:55.13]And at the days end still ain't got nothin' accomplished [00:57.44]And it's just the way it's goin' down but on the real yo [01:00.50]I think I need to slow it down and slow it down [01:03.24]This joint is goin' too fast for me [01:06.36]Just too fast for me just too fast for me [01:09.35]Just too fast for me this really movin' too fast for me [01:14.22] [01:15.59]Just too fast for me and you [01:18.15]I try to slow it down like Brand Nubian [01:20.15]But hypnotic tunes like this always do me in [01:22.96]Got a ni**a about to go and burn the road again [01:25.39]From first gear to fifth gear out of control again [01:28.14]And that's the way we rollin' in needed to chill and take a rest stop [01:31.51]'Cause my job got me slavin' like I'm Dred Scott [01:33.75]Take a break nah ni**a you bet not [01:36.25]'Cause that's when the respect stops energy drain [01:38.56]I need a blast like Hi-Tek got [01:40.30]So I can grab the mic and make your heads bop [01:42.49]With the microphone check one two it don't stop [01:44.42]Out of town on a quick escape [01:46.48]Hopin' to have a chance to slow it up and hit the breaks [01:49.23]And slow it down [01:50.16]This joint is goin' too fast for me [01:52.35]Just too fast for me just too fast for me [01:56.09] [01:57.47]Just too fast for me well it movin' too fast for me [02:01.83] [02:02.65]Just too fast for me and you [02:05.39]I let my life shine in between these papers lines [02:07.70]I write rhymes to incite minds [02:09.82]Spendin' time on this pipeline 85 North it's like mine [02:13.82]Goin' eighty-five to light minds goin' ninety-five to take time [02:17.25]Spendin' days in the rays of the sunshine [02:20.30]Many days those same rays went undefined [02:22.86]Now 40 East is where I go to have my best times [02:25.92]Three lanes goin' sixty to perfect rhymes [02:28.29]Tre dose master craft catch punch lines [02:30.66]We turnin' in a early mornin' late night times [02:33.35]Amtrack Monday mornin' to come back rides [02:35.97]Catch a couch on the weekend a place I rarely did sleep in [02:39.34]Tay car speaker knobs is tweakin' [02:41.83]'Cause the way we be rockin' it when joints is finished [02:44.52]At the speed we be movin' we could never be diminished [02:47.45]With my energy replenished write a rhyme with puns [02:49.89]And all my similes intended speed out until I finish [02:52.94]Keep it on now we keep it and keep it [02:57.68] [02:58.68]And keep it on now and keep it and keep it [03:02.49]We keep it on now we run it we do it [03:06.98]We keep it on now we do it we did it [03:12.41] [03:13.22]We keep it on now we don't stop [03:15.47]Well it movin' too fast for me just too fast for me [03:18.17]Just too fast for me just too fast for me [03:20.73]Well it movin' too fast for me [03:22.22]Just too fast for me and you [03:23.97]Well it movin' too fast for me just too fast for me [03:28.02]Just too fast for me just too fast for me [03:32.65] [03:33.65]Just too fast for me well too fast for me [03:37.58] [03:38.57]Just too fast for me me and you me and you