[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