[00:00.46][Intro]
[00:00.83]"Oh, it's you again! Don't you ever give up?"
[00:04.58]"At one time I thought of giving up, but now I think differently"
[00:08.44]"You can help change things, by learning more about your culture" "and believing in yourself."
[00:13.36]"Oh yeah? You gotta be joking."
[00:15.43]"It's no joke. Tell me!"
[00:19.71]Preemo! (Reks)
[00:25.73]("No time for looking back, it's done") Listen
[00:29.76]("You better take off, before I break off")
[00:32.57]("I don't give a ****, I don't play that ****")
[00:35.72]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[00:37.37][Verse 1]
[00:37.39]I'mma write this here rhyme like Guru's in the passenger Standin on the East Coast, starin out to Africa
[00:42.97]Accolades, Escalades fade
[00:44.40]My vernacular remain in tact for the generation that's comin after
[00:47.76]The average rapper you praise days numbered like a calendar
[00:50.30]Challengers caliber mediocre enter the catheter
[00:52.84]IV's, wrap 'em up, mad as ****, need a ladder up
[00:55.69]Escalator, elevator, skyscraper, hella haters
[00:58.22]On Preemo beats, meditate a bit to elevate my spit
[01:01.34]Scribble daily scripts, hell in wit
[01:02.87]Angels I strangle the instrument mangle chops, can't go pop
[01:05.94]I gotta remain boom bap, true that, who that be?
[01:08.38]Mr. "Say Goodnight", I'mma blaze the mic willingly
[01:10.82]Kill or be killed industry, and the realest of the real emcees
[01:13.41]Solo flow enemy, future of the rap
[01:15.78]Golden Era dead
[01:16.65]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[01:18.30][Chorus]
[01:18.35]We in the 25th hour, it's now or never
[01:20.55]We gotta get it before it's gone forever, remember
[01:23.33]In the end time waits for no man, what's your plan?
[01:26.29]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[01:28.46]We in the 25th hour, it's now or never
[01:30.95]We gotta get it before it's gone forever, remember
[01:33.44]In the end time waits for no man, what's your plan?
[01:36.70]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[01:38.55][Verse 2]
[01:38.57]Before I fade to black, face the mirror, face the fact
[01:41.32]Fate appear to backtrack where the plaques at?
[01:43.02]Where the love for the cat?
[01:44.17]Fortified flow, fire from fire like fame
[01:46.47]Foresayer in Josiah desire to perspire
[01:48.94]The 25th hour upon me, calmly walk the wire
[01:51.67]Annihilate enemy ire any higher than I are in the sky
[01:54.51]Or heaven I require less than mediocre
[01:56.76]I reawoken the deeper thoughts of sleepin prophets
[01:58.89]Regardless of others offers I authentic dialect, I'm a vet
[02:02.06]Y'all are just wakin up, 'Say Goodnight'
[02:03.99]Slap a rapper, take his mic, greater height
[02:05.86]Spit a rhyme saber like
[02:07.20]Inner mind paid the price, A-B-C-alike
[02:09.83]Hey Preem, we a tight, chemistry
[02:11.39]Any beats sent to me I'mma instantly write
[02:13.46]'til the fingertips crippled
[02:14.83]It'll be sort of arthritis to finish a line
[02:17.01]If you more than rhyme this
[02:18.21]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[02:19.33][Chorus]
[02:19.35]We in the 25th hour, it's now or never
[02:22.06]We gotta get it before it's gone forever, remember
[02:24.57]In the end time waits for no man, what's your plan?
[02:27.59]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[02:29.65]We in the 25th hour, it's now or never
[02:32.20]We gotta get it before it's gone forever, remember
[02:34.82]In the end time waits for no man, what's your plan?
[02:37.97]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[02:40.01][Verse 3]
[02:40.03]You ever chant with the rebels, dance with the devils?
[02:42.42]Answered the higher levels, ride with the iron elbow to elbow
[02:45.77]In hellish circles where the heat is echoed
[02:47.49]You ever let go, stresses from pressures boilin beyond the kettle?
[02:50.71]You ever petrified, exorcised demons
[02:52.77]Believing you leave 'em breathin they'll get even
[02:54.72]Odds are beyond y'all, achievin peaceful means of seekin deacons
[02:57.99]Ain't no way out, they 'bout beat, by any means
[03:00.40]Ain't necessary but they bury them very young, hell or heaven
[03:02.81]Them adolescents, is pedalin, packin metal and settlin
[03:05.74]Street wars, revolves life behind tight walls
[03:08.29]When I falls, psychos strike the right chords
[03:10.40]They at pause, bumpin Ricky Ross
[03:12.16]Kids is on crack, they lost
[03:13.51]Wipe a lot, no time for looking back, it's done
[03:16.36]Golden era over and dead, I'm over your heads
[03:18.84]{"No time for looking back, it's done"}
[03:20.72][Chorus]
[03:20.74]We in the 25th hour, it's now or never
[03:22.96]We gotta get it before it's gone forever, remember
[03:25.77]In the end time waits for no man, what's your plan?
[03:29.16]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[03:31.03]We in the 25th hour, it's now or never
[03:33.60]We gotta get it before it's gone forever, remember
[03:36.04]In the end time waits for no man, what's your plan?
[03:39.38]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[03:43.38][Outro]
[03:43.77]("You better take off, before I break off")
[03:45.89]("I don't give a ****, I don't play that ****")
[03:49.81]("No time for looking back, it's done")
[03:54.34]("You better take off, before I break off")
[03:56.74]("I don't give a ****, I don't play that ****")
[03:59.77]("No time for looking back, it's done")