TQ feat. Glasses Malone - The Fastlane (no audio)

[Portugoal]

Movin Fast… The Fastlane

Movin way too fast…

Talkin’ bout hustlin’? What u know about hustlin’? I hear many talk about it, but when it’s gets down to it who can effectively make it happen? Niggas rap about being the new Freeway. The real Nino Brown. Scarface reincarnated. Poster children for Generation X. Fast money, fast women, fast cars and a fast trial. This is what we value. Speed.

The Fastlane.

You ever been on the freeway in traffic thinking if U can just get in the far left lane u’d be cool? Only to find out it’s the hardest lane to get out of? It looked like it was moving so fast before u got in it right? We fall for that trick every time. And so the game is played. Cuz that applies to more than just the freeway.

Our borders have been flooded with hustler’s bounty since the end of Vietnam. Heroine and Cocaine ran up and down the 5 like mile markers. Niggas got rich. Cops got rich. Congressmen, lawmakers, and foreign heads of state got richer. Then somebody found a way to cut so sharp and cook so well that they could feed the masses with a cheap product with a 500% return. Game over. Niggas died along with whole neighborhoods. It’s the 80’s and welcome to Crack. I was young but I remember all the older cats. I remember their conversations. Everybody had a plan… “Imma hustle up to a key and when I flip that bitch I’m in!” It was like a script that everybody read. When I saw them same cats blowin’ it up around me that script became scripture. The key to success fast is selling drugs straight up! Thaz the truth about this thing.

Yes we are the X factor. The first generation of American minority “We don’t give a fucks”. The 70’s babies were the first on record to feel some sense of entitlement to happiness regardless. We were the first ones born under liberation instead of oppression generation-wide. The Civil/Women’s rights movements were over. It was possible for a well off minority family in the US to live up in the hills. Or a woman up there by herself without the help of any man with no questions asked. The classe system in the US became economic instead of racial… In other words we caught up to the rest of the world. Me being called “Boy” was now grounds to get ya ass beat. Blacks, Latinos, and Asians and regular old white folks became prominent and a part of American culture. White kids wanted to be like Mike as much as Bird and didn’t have a problem with it. The thought of going from nothing to something has always been stronger in our minds than in that of our parents and Grandparents. I used the people who told me that I “couldn’t” as stepping stones. The generations b4 us took them as the truth.

Hell naw. Not us.

Fastlane to the late 80’s. We as a family ain’t doing so well. I’m getting older and there’s some shit I want. I got sense. My fam ain’t got it to give so I gotta go get it… One way or another. I had some homies that were making a fair amount of dough hitting trains late at nite. They were getting shoes, clothes, brick phones, and all kinds of shit to sell. I never fucked with them cuz they were the silly bunch. They liked to gangbang more than hustlin. I never really cared what color a nigga wore. That just didn’t mean that much to me. I always played by the rules, but it just didnt move me like that. I didn’t really understand the big deal. Now havin’ thangs? I understood that perfectly. So when I got word that those trains now had some new and interesting cargo coming down Alameda on a regular I was all in.

The Soviet Union had recently crumbled. The wall was down in Berlin and the Cold War was over. FOR WHATEVER REASON (hint, hint) a lot of these trains were now filled with overseas made weaponry. All kinds of guns, military supplies, scrap metal and machine parts that were headed somewhere shady I’m sure. History was my favorite subject. My little mind got to wandering and the conspiracies started in my head. Hmmmmm… Let me hush now. Fastlane to the 90’s.

Everything has changed at this point. I am speeding. I got a situation brewing. I got cats coming to my school fuckin’ with me at the fence. I got lil dramas in my neighborhood cuz my homies say I don’t wanna run if it ain’t bout no money… Um… ok. They’re also gettin a lil antsy about the fact that some of my closest family are from the other side of the freeway and relations ain’t the best at the moment. Meanwhile I’ve been introduced to Mr. Mikhail Kalashnikov who is now the king of the streets. I know exactly where he lives and the rent is cheap. The last thing I’m trying to hear is bullshit from the niggas I grew up with. Most of my time at this point was spent with the older cats anyway. It had to be. I was young. I just wanted Jordans. They knew that so I stayed up to something. I don’t know if that was good or bad. Most of them are in jail right now… Most of the ones my age are dead.

All of us were moving too fast.

Old Skippy and Thelda Jean were moving faster. I was on a plane to Atlanta with Lil’ Cluck and none of the shit in the previous paragraphs meant anything. The Fastlane came to a screaching halt. I fell asleep at the wheel and ran outta gas seconds b4 a multi-car pileup. Now on the weekend I’m pushing a lawnmower in a Red 49er jersey and a Blue Dodger hat. It’s hot as fuck. For some reason I’m as happy as I’ve ever been… At peace.

Like a 2 lane highway on a back road in a 83 Cadillac with the windows down bumpin’ “Under the Bridge” going 40 miles an hour… Slow.

Thank God 4 Slow…

This was the inspiration for “The Fastlane” from my New Album “Kind of Blue” in Stores and Online March 23rd, 2010. It features Watts native Glasses Malone who rocked the shit out of it. Support good Music!

WESTSIDE4LIFE!!!!

http://tqsblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/13/movin-fast-the-fastlane/

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[Jaydc]

Is it 1998?Why is someone making a thread about TQ

[Portugoal]

Is it 1998?Why is someone making a thread about TQ

music wise 1998 shits on the whole 2000s

[KURUPTION-81]

Is it 1998?Why is someone making a thread about TQ

Id like to see TQ get a bit of success again, they never saw me comin was a pretty dope album.

[ThaRealSupreme]

Is it 1998?Why is someone making a thread about TQ

music wise 1998 shits on the whole 2000s

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