[Verse 1: Dekay]
Funny how I done spendin' ganged time
I dropped out of school, spent my very last dime
Fucked up this ranky tanky credit of mine
To express myself
50/50 chance, Mr. Thyme won't sign
Bucka got line
I daze 'em with the phrases, catastrophic rhyme stages
We the dreamers, southern bare freethinkers
To drop a brand
You drop a tin at your local blockbusters
So I can touch generation, to fulfill my life's aspiration
Me and Ciph gotta fill so frigerators
Make liars outta haters and believers outta confused kids
At last, the fakers and pretenders
The bullshit is endless
You whackin' you in Houston, take your ass to Tennessee
You wit that greedy cracker, Example is concerned
Turfed and disturbed and that be the word
[Chorus]
See we gotta get it goin' before it's too late
See I ain't got time for me to sit around and wait
The way things are goin' we be in the last days
We gotta get it goin' before it's too late
Get it straight ya'll
See we gotta get it glowin'
Estimated time of arrival, no one know
Example be the crew and you know how it goes
We gotta get it straight before it's too late
[Verse 2: Dekay]
Live all the way, live
I bet you never knew the Houstons (Houstons)
We in the house (We in the house)
Some on a mission to get these folks to listen
Get the words to stick inside your brain like traumatic situation
Catchin' flashbacks of last tracks with facts and flows
From the bio of buffalos
What you niggas know about the gold coast?
You say it's all about tempos and '74
And them same synthesizer sounds
Grab the mic if you're real playa
MC's grab the mic if you real
'Cause now is the time and the place aight
So where we from, where we from, where we from?
Houston, the city of shotgun houses
Pursed upon center blocks, bitches trippin' over burnin' rocks
If not much, they be barely breathin'
I pray my words'll touch the low down
Dirty heathens, you're not alone
I gotta let this little light of mine shine
But termination times at quarter past
How long must this bullshit last?
They say it's irritatin' but you know we got a way
(got a way, got a way, got a way)
[Chorus]
Gotta get it goin' before it's too late
See I ain't got time for me to sit around and wait
The way things are goin' we be in the last day
We gotta get it goin' before it's too late
Get it straight ya'll
See we gotta get it glowin'
Estimated time of arrival, no one know
Example is the crew and you know how it goes
We gotta get it straight before it's too late
[Verse 3: Dekay]
Brothers often wonder why we come like this
Or where we came from or where we get the name from
Niggas in the South ain't supposed to kick
The lyrics like you spittin', I asked a brother why
And he say it don't sound like much South shit to me
I said this rap thing is all about my life be
It ain't about production
It's all about me livin' in this crazy ass city
Stayin' strong never givin' in
But I love it 'cause the ladies say the finest
And the niggas they be chillin', clockin' dollas, swingin' wild
Comin' with another flavor 'cause it really ain't new
But guess what
U.J. Kay is the best at bein' U.J. Kay
Face's best at bein' Scarface so I figure
That I better get my own thang so I won't get lost in blockbuster
With these other motherfuckas comin' with the same album cover
He didn't say a word so I knew I got him thinkin'
Which was my whole objective in the first place
He caught the first taste
Of the flavor of Example that I'm settin' on the microphone
You know we catchin' wrack
[Outro]
Bring it back, bring it back
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