Jean Grae-The Time Is Now (ft Phonte)

[R.I.O.T. {019}]

Jean Grae-The Time Is Now (ft Phonte)



[INTRO]
Aye 9th, you know me and Phonte the Ashford and Simpson of this rap shit
Oh, y'all ain't know?
Oh, y'all ain't know
Oh, we creeping up then

[VERSE 1]
It's Jean niggas, back again
Trap you in the wrath again
Blacker than boat loads of Africans
Or rather like them
This struggle, we can't win
Back bent, over till it slacks, and cracks
Can't hustle harder
I'm like my father
Only in denial though
My mother is like I know
And my brother is quiet so
I fight further
Till I type murder, family cycles will fly further than expected
Titles on my life or daughter
Sorta like I bought her, still in my momma's house
Get green like chlorophyll when all of y'all be like, "I'm out"
Gettin me wrong shit, shittin in your own crib
I'm in no position to be fucking on my own still
This ain't some words on a paper
This is what my mind's made of
Emotional heart data
Like a skyscraper reaching up
Try to stay keeping up and keeping my feelings out of beats and stuff
But t'ay they ain't believing us, c'mon

[HOOK]
Been through so many struggles in my life
You would not believe where I have been
(I don't know where, I don't know how)
Even my lonely heart and sacrifice
Until the day that my life ends
(The place is here, the time is now)

[VERSE 2]
At this moment, Phonte's flow is
Stompin through, yall niggas just tip toeing
Soon as they put it on, they say, he big Willie
You just a Lil Jon, tryna Get Lower
This is proof that thee existence of persistence pays off and it's showin
Cause labels used to play me like
Now they better pay me like I'm Luke Wilson
Check your books, I ain't owin
Tay's a true terror
Yall ain't bustin caps
Yall gangstas in the studio makin a new era
And this is for whoeva
Is tryna do me
Yall need to do you, maybe then you'll do betta
Cause I'm a be spittin till I walk with a cane
Left my mark on the game
And yall just scribblin
I'm etched in stone, yall just penciled in
Number two status, that's your place nigga, live with it, uh

[BRIDGE]
They don't know the shoes I walk in (one time for your mind)
So I guess they'll keep on talking (they dont x2, keep talkin x2)

(We gotta, we gotta keep it now, uh
It aint a secret now
Right now, we gettin it right now, feel it)
[?]...(Phonte and Jean Grae)
Ain't no time to play(Jean Grae and Phonte)
We gon' build it up, build it up, built it up
And now we're solid

[HOOK]
Been through so many struggles in my life
You would not believe where I have been (Solid as a rock)
(I don't know where, I don't know how) (A solid)
Even my lonely heart and sacrifice (A solid)
Until the day that my life ends
(The place is here, the time is now)

[OUTRO]
When you hold that thang in your hand and you know a solid
It's not a liquid, it's not a gas, it's solid, it's solid, let me tell ya again
Solid, solid, so solid
[?]...
Can I have some cake? Is the cake solid?
Its solid cake, its vanilla solid cake, baby (its got icing on it)
It's the icing on the cake
It's got icing on the cake
Now ain't that the best thing you ever heard... *laughs*

Might've gotten a lyric or two wrong. Feel free to comment corrections.