EP on Red Hook Records



[Shabazz The Disciple]

Impressive times everybody lives the fast life

Running around selling drugs living trife

In order to survive we have to strive

for perfection and have a direction to guide

The young ones out of the darkness of reality

It's rap standing for this mic brutality

Cuz if we don't got them where will they end up

In a situation where they get sent up

For selling drugs or possession of weapons

Forcing and sending thier own mankind back to the essence

Bust shots at the cops for props

Low down shots, run the spots

So, I'm damn near every block

Making it hard to live at your residence

Brothers who kill brothers for past experience

Let me break it down to my point of view

Designed for a white man who didn't die for you

I know money is the roots of all evil

and worst is the devil, it controls people

It has your mind in a state, so negative

That to get more, you'll even murder your relatives

The drug game took a lot of my brothers

and others, but all I could do was think about their mothers

They can't bear that thought that their son was shot dead

in the ghetto, on the ground with holes in his head

All those years of chastizing, advising

He really wasn't realizing and open his eyes

and looking at life as a meaningfull experience

and take the dreams a lot more serious

Stop pleading for the opposite race

taking life for a waste and chase in space

The latter of success is what we have to climb

with the strong mind and yo, take your time



[Chorus: "sample", Shabazz The Disciple]

"Take your time, young man"

Take your time, all you gotta do is just take your time

"Don't you rush to get old"

"Take your time, young man"

Eh, yo, take your time

"Don't you rush to get old"



[Shabazz The Disciple]

Sometiems, I just sit back and wonder

What can I do to keep myself from going under

In the ghetto, yo, it's hard to stay alive

So I keep a strong mind and strive to survive

Seems hard at times, but I guess I slipped

Cuz I'm here and my mind is equipped

I walk past the brothers that be dealing

and a negative eye appears glady appealing

They drive fancy cars tinted up with a kit

How many brothers did they kill to get it

They rule the streets on a temporary basis

And everyday they live life at fast paces

And in the end they go out and fight caucasians

Peep smiles on the white mans faces

You sell drugs, brother, I don't have to

I'd rather make fly beats I could rap to

Red Hook is infested with capsules

But that's one lifestyle I can't adapt to

Because the living is lame, who's to blame

It's damn shame, but after you're illusion to maintain

And entertain, so use your brain

Stop walking all around as if your brain has been drained

Stop rushing to get to the top

Cuz you might get shot or knocked by the cops

Then you'll be sitting in the cell everyday

Reminiscing about your life and how you could've got away

The only way that you could've escaped

is if you wouldn't have got yourself involved in the first place

But it's too damn late to think backwards

Think about the sentance you're about to get slapped with

So, young brothers, here's a reason to think

About how the positive rise and the negative stink

They'll become memories of the past

The main reason's cuz they're living their lives too fast

The latter of success is what we have to climb

so, orcastrate line and yo, take your time



[Chorus: "sample", Shabazz The Disciple]

"Take your time, young man"

Take your time, all you gotta do is just take your time

"Don't you rush to get old"

"Take your time, young man"

Just take your time

"Don't you rush to get old"



[Shabazz The Disciple]

As the world revolves, our people dissolve

Create more problems not getting solved

We struggle just to survive

We struggle to stay alive

Innocent are dead, our freedom is deprived

Kinifes in fear, yo, we all under stand this

Freedom, not death, yo, all must ammend this

Your minds were diluted, heavily polluted

As far as I'm concerned, we've all been excluded

Took of our knowledge, but I'm here to speak it

Your must love it, before you must seek it

Destroy devilish snakes and never be a rebel

Instead of all of us falling victim to the devil

Don't let them hold you, don't let them control you

Don't let no one in the negative state of mind own you

Don't fall for the tricks of the 666

Cuz they first specialized in the crucifix

Now is the time to strive and be wise

Where we reach the horizon and we all disguising

It's up to us to keep the strong mind

So that the light can shine on all mankind

Take surprise and in your grands, young man

but hwatever you have to do, take your time

listen up boy and take your time



[Chorus: "sample", Shabazz The Disciple]

"Take your time, young man"

"Don't you rush to get old"

"Take your time, young man"

Eh, yo, take your time

"Don't you rush to get old"

"Take your time, young man"

"Don't you rush to get old