[vocal interludes sampled from "Time is Running Out" by The Last Poets] [从采样的声音穿插“时间不多了”由最后一个诗人]

   

[Q-Tip] [棉条]

Back in the days when I was a teenager 回来的时候我还是个十几岁的日子

Before I had status and before I had a pager 之前，我有状态和之前我做了一个寻呼机

You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop 你会发现抽象听嘻哈

My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop 我常说持久性有机污染物，它提醒BE -BOP他

I said, well daddy don't you know that things go in cycles 我说，好爸爸你不知道的事是有周期

The way that Bobby Brown is just ampin like Michael 鲍比·布朗只是ampin像迈克尔方式

Its all expected, things are for the lookin 所有的期待，事情都为眼含

If you got the money, Quest is for the bookin 如果你拿到了钱，任务是为bookin

Come on everybody, let's get with the fly modes 拜托大家，我们的飞行方式获得

Still got room on the truck, load the back boom 仍然有空间上的卡车，装载回热潮

Listen to the rhyme, to get a mental picture 听韵，获得心灵上的图画

of this black man, through black woman victim 这个黑衣男子，通过黑色的女事主

Why do I say that, cuz I gotta speak the truth man 我为什么这么说，因为我得真相的人说话

Doing what we feel for the music is the proof and 做我们感觉音乐是证明和

Planted on the ground, the act is so together 放置在地面上，该行为是如此的在一起

Bonafied strong, you need leverage to sever Bonafied强，你需要利用断绝

The unit, yes, the unit, yes, the unit called the jazz is 单位，是的，单位是，单位叫爵士

deliberatley cheered LP filled with streeet goods deliberatley欢呼唱片充满streeet商品

You can find it on the rack in your record store (store) 你可以找到它在机架中的唱片店（专卖店）

If you get the record, then your thoughts are adored 如果你得到的记录，那么你的想法是崇拜

and appreciated, cause we're ever so glad we made it 和赞赏，因为我们是曾经很高兴我们做到了

We work hard, so we gotta thank God 我们努力工作，所以我们得感谢上帝

Dishin out the plastic, do the dance till you spastic Dishin出塑料，做跳舞直到你痉挛

If you dis... it gets drastic 如果存款保险计划......它变得激烈

Listen to the rhymes, cuz its time to make gravy 听儿歌辩论，因为它的时间，使肉汁

If it moves your booty, then shake, shake it baby 如果它移动你的战利品，然后摇一摇，摇宝宝

All the way to Africa a.k.a. The Motherland (uh) 一路又名非洲的祖国（嗯）

Stick out the left, then I'll ask for the other hand 伸出的左手，然后我就问另一方面

That's the right hand, Black Man (man) 这是右手，黑人（ MAN）

Only if you was noted as my man (man) 只有当你注意到我的男人（男人）

If I get the credit, then I'll think I deserve it 如果我的功劳，那我就觉得我应得的

If you fake moves, don't fix your mouth to word it 如果你的假动作，不解决你的嘴字呢

Get in the zone of positivity, not negativity 得到积极的区域，而不是消极的

Cuz we gotta strive for longevity cuz我们得争取长寿

If you botch up, what's in that (ass) (what?) 如果你把事情弄糟了，什么是在（屁股） （什么？ ）

A pair of Nikes, size ten-and-a-half (come on, come on) 一双耐克鞋，大小10 -和半（来吧，来吧）

   

[Chorus:] [合唱： ]

   

We gotta make moves 我们得出招

Never, ever, ever could we fake moves (come on, come on) [4X] 永远，永远，永远会有我们的假动作（来吧，来吧） [ 4X ]

   

"Time.. time is a ship on a merciless sea “时间..时间是一艘船在大海无情

Drifting toward an average of nothingness 对漂流的平均虚无

Until it can be retarded for it's own destiny 直到它可以阻碍它自己的命运

TIME is an inanimate object 时间是一个没有生命的物体

Praying and praying and praying for ?? 祈祷，祈祷，祈祷？

Time is DANCING, moving lingering all memories of past.." 时间跳舞，运动挥之不去的过去所有的回忆。“

The Last Poets 最后诗人

   

You gotta be a winner all the time 你必须是一个胜利者所有的时间

Can't fall prey to a hip hop crime 不能堕入嘻哈犯罪

With the dope raps and dope tracks for you for blocks 随着涂料斥责和涂料曲目为你块

From the fly girlies to the hardest of the rocks 从飞girlies到重的岩石

Musically the Quest, is on the rise 音乐上的探索，正在崛起

We on these Excursions so you must realize 我们对这些郊游活动，所以你必须明白

that continually, I pop my Zulu 那不断，我弹出我的祖鲁

If you don't like it, get off the Zulu tip 如果你不喜欢它，下车祖鲁提示

So what could you do in the times which exist 那么，你能在其中存在的时间做

You can't fake moves on your brother or your sis 你可以不假动作对你的兄弟或你的SIS

But if your sis is a (bitch), brother is a jerk 但是如果你的姐姐是一个（婊子） ，哥哥是个混蛋

Leave 'em both alone and continue with your work 离开他们单独和你继续工作

Whatever it may be in today's society 不管它可能是在当今社会

Everything is fair, at least that how it seems to me 一切都是公平的，至少是如何在我看来，

You must be honest and true to the next 您必须是诚实的和真实的下一

Don't be phony and expect one not to flex 不要被虚假的，并期望人们不挠

Especially if you rhyme, you have to live by the pen 特别是如果你押韵，你必须通过笔来住

Your man is your man, then treat him like your friend 你的男人是你的男人，然后把他像你的朋友

All it is, is the code of the streets 所有的好，就是街头的代码

So listen to the knowledge bein dropped over beats 所以，听知识贝因下跌超过次

Beats that are hard, beats that are funky 节奏是很难，拍那些时髦

It could get you hooked like a crackhead junkie 它可以让你大呼过瘾像crackhead迷

What you gotta do to is know that the Tribe is in the sphere 你要做什么是知道的部落是在球体

The Abstract Poet, prominent like Shakespeare 抽象诗人，著名的如莎士比亚

   

[Chorus] [合唱]

   

Edgar Allan Poe, it don't stop (uh!) 埃德加·爱伦·坡，它不停止（嗯！ ）

   

"Time is running out on black power Africans today “时间是站在黑色的电源非洲人今天跑了

and whites blacks and reporters at night 和白人黑人和记者在晚上

Everytime you see them ?? with their tongues hangin out 每当你看到他们？用舌头犹豫不决了

Time is running and past and passing and running 时间已经不多以及过去和传球和跑

Running and past and passing and running (excursions)" 跑过去和传球和运行（旅行） “