Times Up

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(Time's up) --> Rakim

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now) --> Rob Base

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

[ VERSE 1 ]

Time's up, black is back

Other rappers make records and I make an impact

I don't want you to move, I want a movement

As I proceed, I move with

Knowledge, wisdom, understanding

I make progress, while I'm slamming

Hard lyrics, puttin money in the bank

But these futile new styles stake out the joint with Hank

A to B to D

Cause you can't hit what your eyes can't c

Near-sighted, shallow, hollow, mundane

Rappers untrained, just can't sustain

The heat that hits, you think it's a homerun

But hold that thought, brother, don't run

Cause you hear the pop, it drops, and guess what?

Time's up

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

[ VERSE 2 ]

The clock ticks, the rhyme kicks

I'm kickin off knowledge as I drop this

Brothers ain't takin their time with the rhyme

They wanna get paid, cause it's hard times

I got patience, meditation

Helps creation, and correlation

Is takin its toll in platinum and gold

I get respect with the records I sold

Cause the rhyme is always up to par and on point

I wrote a message in the music while I'm rockin this joint

It's jumpin, slammin, pumpin

And meanwhile I'm sayin somethin

For all ears to hear and prepare

To persevere from here to there, so get geared

So weak rappers'll have to self-destruct

Time's up

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

[ VERSE 3 ]

I'm harder than times and 29

Hard enough to cut diamonds, rhymin I'm

Sharp as a razor, cuts like a laser

And my rhyme can graze ya, I'm able to raise ya

>From a dead level, I ain't a rebel

I just don't dance with the devil

Unless we're dancing in the rain

And then my dance is an Ali dance

Cuts as sharp as a blow, showboat what I wrote

And sugar-coat the globe and collect sweet g notes

Go for the throat and watch the wicked choke

>From the words I spoke because the rhymin smoke

Provoked thoughts of hope, no dope to cope

Cocaine and propane, no pain and no gain

The white demon is powdered and cut

Taste the real rock - time's up

[ VERSE 4 ]

High performance is layin dormant

Your mentality is out of the ordi-

nary structure, you ain't a sucker

Go get paid like a renegade buster

Lyrical format I put down

And when it rips, better skip town

Metaphysical spiritual conscience

Manifested in lyrical contents

An ancient rhetoric, Moe Dee better kick

Soulful social science, and let it get

My class needs to thinkin straight

Cause with speeds of light they can't relate

We live and learn, but what are we learnin?

The dollars teach and weak souls are burnin

So when I strike, it's like lightning struck

Time's up

(Time's up)

(I wanna rock right now)

(Time's up)

[repeated till end]