When The Clock Ticks (feat. J. Sands)

[Verse 1: J. Sands]

I told J. Flint, these rhymes can pay rent

Need  to holler 'bout some dollars 'cause mine, yo, they spent

Gas,  light, electric, and condo fee got me stressed, kid

They call me on the phone; "He's not home—can I take a message?"

Dodgin', dropped a half a grand on my lodge and

Sprint  to sprint, went right upside my noggin

Thinkin  'bout robbin', maybe gettin' a job and

Employee of the year at Baskin-Robbin's

Livin'  life, you know what cost to be in it

Some leave early; you just start, now you finished

Paid the highest tax, enough cheese to buy a rack

Not to floss with that, tryna cop the flyer gats

Man,  two bucks a gallon got my pockets cold wilin'

I'd rather just stay at the crib creatin' styles and

New hot shit like Chinese food chop sticks

'Cause when the clock ticks, I need a profit

[Chorus: J. Sands]

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

[Verse 2: J. Sands]

I take a pull from the leaf like the Indian chief

Hop in the whip full-clip just to defend me in streets

And that's a shame, but the lames got the game all changed

Draw aim and bust that thing for small fame

On the news arraign

One life took, one life booked

Now, two niggas will never see the sunlight, look

That's half the cats around my way, whole generation sway

On some Willie Lynch shit but happenin' today

I was rappin' to my rays about how whitey's a trip

Think life is only what society grips

Man, my niggas' slang dope to dank, coke, and sherm

Makin' all type of dollars with no tax return

I wish the wack would learn, Instead of frontin' like they know it

You wanna impress me? Drop a track I can flow with, and roll up

Jazz Lib, the cold crush with jigga J. Sands

No man can hold us, yeah

J. Sands, Jazz Lib, yeah, and Lone Cat

And when the clock ticks, we need a profit

And when the clock tick, we need a profit

[Chorus: J. Sands]

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

[Verse 3: J. Sands]

Yo, I was blessed, never had to run in the streets

Growin' up slingin' sheets with a gun in my fleece

See, in my hood, family's deep, always somethin' to eat

But not a cookout every day, straight a month and a week

Ridin' down Federal; how it's changed, incredible

Cleaned out, fiend out, things out, you better move

Them the kids by the alpine, shout out to crowd tryin'

To murk your cast with the gats, heard the loud sign

'93 was the worst year on the earth here, a hundred-plus murders

Niggas thinkin' that this turfs theirs, ridin' for it

The white man own it; they dyin' for it

Another way, god sakes, momma's cryin' for it

Now youngins on the same trip

You wasn't allowed off your porch, now you gang-bang, sick

Talkin' all that hot shit, man, you got the plot flipped

Just because I called you cuz don't mean I walk crip, nigga

You little young dumb motherfucker

I'm just showing you love, that's why I say

So when the clock tick, I need a profit

[Chorus: J. Sands]

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

Yo, when the clock tick, I need a profit

[Outro: J. Sands]

'Cause when the clock tick, I need a profit (The Jazz Libz, yeah)

'Cause when the clock tick (Paris, France in the house), I need a profit (Yeah, yeah)

'Cause when the clock tick (Yeah, yeah), I need a profit (Yeah)

And you don't stop and you won't stop

And you can't stop, 'cause it's hip-hop

I said you won't stop and you don't stop

And you don't stop and you don't stop

Yeah, uh, uh, J. Sssss

J. Sands, Jazz Lib, puttin' it down, holdin' the crown all year 'round

Yes, yes, y'all, and you don't stop

J. Sands, y'all, forever rock, peace, ha ha

Yeah, no doubt, we good, we good, we good