Times Up - Kool Moe Dee

Time’s up, black is back

Other rappers make records and I’ll 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, putting money in the bank

But these futile new styles stake out the joint with point

A to B to D

Cause you can’t hit what your eyes can’t see

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

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 rocking this joint

It’s jumping, slamming, bumping

And meanwhile I’m saying something

For all ears to hear and prepare

To persevere from year to year, and get geared

So weak rappers’ll have to self-destruct

Time’s up

I’m harder than times in '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 ring

And then my dance is an Ali thing

Cause I shuffle and flow, and showboat what I wrote

And sugarcoat the globe and collect sweet g-notes

Go for the throat and watch the wicked choke

From the words I spoke because the rhyming 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

High performance is lying 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 thinking straight

Cause with speeds of light they can’t relate

We live and learn, but what are we learning?

The dollars teach and weak souls are burning

So when I strike, it’s like lightning struck

Time’s up