[00:09.68] Back in the days when I was a teenager
[00:11.81] Before I had status and before I had a pager
[00:15.14] You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop
[00:17.72] My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop
[00:20.01] I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles
[00:22.46] The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael
[00:24.96] It's all expected, things are for the lookin
[00:27.35] If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin
[00:29.91] Come on everybody, let's get with the fly modes
[00:32.77] Still got room on the truck, load the back boom
[00:35.13] Listen to the rhyme, to get a mental picture
[00:37.60] Of this black man, through black woman victim
[00:40.23] Why do I say that, cuz I gotta speak the truth man
[00:42.62] Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and
[00:45.27] Planted on the ground, the act is so together
[00:47.49] Bonafide strong, you need leverage to sever
[00:50.20] The unit, yes, the unit, yes, the unit called the jazz is
[00:52.61] Deliberately cheered LP filled with street goods
[00:55.32] You can find it on the rack in your record store (store)
[00:57.52] If you get the record, then your thoughts are adored
[01:00.10] And appreciated, cause we're ever so glad we made it
[01:03.49] We work hard, so we gotta thank God
[01:05.16] Dishin out the plastic, do the dance till you're spastic
[01:07.56] If you dis... it gets drastic
[01:10.34] Listen to the rhymes, cuz its time to make gravy
[01:12.61] If it moves your booty, then shake, shake it baby
[01:15.17] All the way to Africa a.k.a. The Motherland (uh)
[01:17.61] Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand
[01:20.23] That's the right hand, Black Man (man)
[01:22.94] Only if you are noted as my man (man)
[01:25.54] If I get the credit, then I'll think I deserve it
[01:27.71] If you fake moves, don't fix your mouth to word it
[01:30.35] Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity
[01:33.38] Cuz we gotta strive for longevity
[01:35.43] If you botch up, what's in that (ass) (what?)
[01:37.86] A pair of Nikes, size ten-and-a-half (come on, come on)
[01:43.45] We gotta make moves
[01:44.59] Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on)
[01:59.92] "Time. time is a ship on a merciless sea
[02:04.76] Drifting toward an average of nothingness
[02:07.27] Until it can be retarded for it's own destiny
[02:09.75] TIME is an inanimate object
[02:12.46] Praying and praying and praying for?
[02:14.80] Time is DANCING, moving lingering all memories of past."
[02:21.17] We gotta be a winner all the time
[02:22.53] Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime
[02:24.60] With the dope raps and dope tracks for you for blocks
[02:27.37] From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks
[02:29.65] Musically the Quest, is on the rise
[02:32.42] We on these Excursions so you must realize
[02:35.00] That continually, I pop my Zulu
[02:37.55] If you don't like it, get off the Zulu tip
[02:40.21] So what can you do in the times which exist
[02:42.27] You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis
[02:44.81] But if your sis is a (bitch), brother is a jerk
[02:47.36] Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work
[02:49.88] Whatever it may be in today's society
[02:52.29] Everything is fair, at least that how it seems to me
[02:54.87] You must be honest and true to the next
[02:57.30] Don't be phony and expect one not to flex
[02:59.93] Especially if you rhyme, you have to live by the pen
[03:02.31] Your man is your man, then treat him like your friend
[03:04.81] All it is, is the code of the streets
[03:07.58] So listen to the knowledge bein dropped over beats
[03:10.00] Beats that are hard, beats that are funky
[03:12.45] It could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie
[03:14.95] What you gotta do to is know that the Tribe is in the sphere
[03:17.55] The Abstract Poet, prominent like Shakespeare
[03:21.45] Edgar Allan Poe, it don't stop (uh!)
[03:23.58] "Time is running out on black power Africans today
[03:28.31] 
[03:42.92] And whites blacks and reporters at night
[03:45.02] Everytime you see them? with their tongues hangin out
[03:47.43] Time is running and past and passing and running
[03:51.48] Running and past and passing and running (excursions)"
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