9th Wonder - The Time Is Now lyrics

Intro [Jean Grae] Aye 9th, you know me and Phonte the Ashford and Simpson of this rap sh** Y'all ain't know Oh, y'all ain't know Oh, we creeping up like.. da na na na na [Verse 1: Jean Grae] It's Jean n***as, 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 and fly further than expected Titles on my life or daughter Sorta like a boarder Still in my momma's house Get green like chlorophyll and all of y'all be like, "I'm out" Gettin' your own sh** sh**tin' in your own crib I'm in no position to be f**ing 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 trying to keep my feelings out of the beats and stuff But Tay, they ain't believe in us [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: Phonte] Now at this moment Phonte's flow is Stomping through Y'all n***as just tip toeing Soon as they put it on They say, he's big Willie You just a Lil' Jon Trying to get lower This is proof that thee existence of persistence pays off and it's showing Cause labels used to play me like Now they better pay me like I'm Luke Wilson Check your books, I ain't owing Tay's a true terror Y'all ain't busting caps Y'all gangstas in the studio making a new era And this is for whoever Is trying to do me Y'all need to do you, maybe then you'll do better Cause I'm gonna be spitting till I walk with a cane Left my mark on the game And y'all just scribbling I'm etched in stone, y'all just penciled in Number two status, that's your place n***a, live with it [Jean Grae] They don't know the shoes I walk in So I guess they'll keep on talking [Hook] [x2] [Outro] [Phonte] We gon' build it up, build it up, build it up And now we're solid Solid as a rock [Jean Grae] It's solid, it's solid You'll know, you'll Cos when you hold that thing in your hand and you know it's 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 It's what we got, what we got, what we got Can I have some cake? Is the cake solid? It's solid cake, it's vanilla solid cake baby [Phonte] And it's got icing on it! [Jean Grae] Icing on the cake! It's got icing on the cake! Now ain't that the best thing you ever heard