25th Hour (Prod. by DJ Premier)-Reks

[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")