"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
Swizz Beatz
Nigga, ryde or die
DMX what what
C'mon
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Now, what the fuck is you niggas pressing me for?
I saw more ass than a ho and you stressing the raw
If I was testing your jaw, maybe then you would respect me
But you can't respect me 'cause you don't even know me
Nigga check me (come on)
I'm that motherfucker that'll put you to sleep, while you sleeping
Then die from a hundred feet, you just knew you was creeping
But, bad decisions lead to last decisions
Fast collision, now yo ass is missing (what)
Take it over there now you bring it back to the streets
Have you forgotten what it means when a dog shows his teeth?
Let me break it down for you, he's about to attack you
Still standing here fagot? You must want me to smack you
You ain't been there or done that, fuck is y'all niggas telling me
I'm the only nigga, walking the streets with four felonies
But peep this, I see shit is hard, niggas is struggling
So leave rap alone for a little while, go back to hustling
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Give it to niggas just how they give it to, me
Hit 'em in a rhyme because I'm a MC
Been a lot of places most niggas won't, see
That's why I'm at a level that y'all niggas won't, be
Let your man hold something now he want, more
You ain't no fucking killer what was the front, for
It was a time when the world was at your front, door
Now they change places niggas want, raw
Niggas laughed at me and was mad at me
'Cause the way life was going had to be a, tragedy
But after me, it's over, I'ma take the whole verse
I tried to keep it real that's why I let y'all niggas go first
But you looked a gift horse right in the mouth
Didn't appreciate what you got when you got it
So if I see it, I'ma dot it, better to hide it
You gotta car? Better drive it, the fuck up outta here
And hope and pray I don't pull up alongside it
Come on
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Niggas don't know so I gotta flip
It seem they've forgotten how dark it could get
Barks like a pit scratch when I hit
We both know you pussy but you stay talking shit
What I'ma have to do dog, run up in yo mess
Catch you while you comfortable put one up in yo chest
One up in yo vest, of course they the hollows
You goin' away today, you just lost tomorrow
I'ma go platinum (nah) you gots to be kidding why!
Make it double platinum, no bullshitting
And I'ma stay flipping flows, ripping shows
Stripping ho's, getting dough let me go
And nigas know, who the best is
The dog, DMX is the rest is or might as well be helpless
I'm reckless 'cause when I wreck shit
I might snatch a niggas necklace
Then go from like midnight to breakfast
Come on
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Y'all niggas just don't know
You niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Way you're gonna stop my shine
Y'all niggas won't everstop mine
You must be out your mothafuckin' mind
I love it, I love it
Nigga, ryde or die
DMX what what
C'mon
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Now, what the fuck is you niggas pressing me for?
I saw more ass than a ho and you stressing the raw
If I was testing your jaw, maybe then you would respect me
But you can't respect me 'cause you don't even know me
Nigga check me (come on)
I'm that motherfucker that'll put you to sleep, while you sleeping
Then die from a hundred feet, you just knew you was creeping
But, bad decisions lead to last decisions
Fast collision, now yo ass is missing (what)
Take it over there now you bring it back to the streets
Have you forgotten what it means when a dog shows his teeth?
Let me break it down for you, he's about to attack you
Still standing here fagot? You must want me to smack you
You ain't been there or done that, fuck is y'all niggas telling me
I'm the only nigga, walking the streets with four felonies
But peep this, I see shit is hard, niggas is struggling
So leave rap alone for a little while, go back to hustling
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Give it to niggas just how they give it to, me
Hit 'em in a rhyme because I'm a MC
Been a lot of places most niggas won't, see
That's why I'm at a level that y'all niggas won't, be
Let your man hold something now he want, more
You ain't no fucking killer what was the front, for
It was a time when the world was at your front, door
Now they change places niggas want, raw
Niggas laughed at me and was mad at me
'Cause the way life was going had to be a, tragedy
But after me, it's over, I'ma take the whole verse
I tried to keep it real that's why I let y'all niggas go first
But you looked a gift horse right in the mouth
Didn't appreciate what you got when you got it
So if I see it, I'ma dot it, better to hide it
You gotta car? Better drive it, the fuck up outta here
And hope and pray I don't pull up alongside it
Come on
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Niggas don't know so I gotta flip
It seem they've forgotten how dark it could get
Barks like a pit scratch when I hit
We both know you pussy but you stay talking shit
What I'ma have to do dog, run up in yo mess
Catch you while you comfortable put one up in yo chest
One up in yo vest, of course they the hollows
You goin' away today, you just lost tomorrow
I'ma go platinum (nah) you gots to be kidding why!
Make it double platinum, no bullshitting
And I'ma stay flipping flows, ripping shows
Stripping ho's, getting dough let me go
And nigas know, who the best is
The dog, DMX is the rest is or might as well be helpless
I'm reckless 'cause when I wreck shit
I might snatch a niggas necklace
Then go from like midnight to breakfast
Come on
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my flow
Ain't no way y'all niggas just don't know
Where niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Ain't no way you're gonna stop my shine
Ain't no way you niggas gonna stop mine
Y'all niggas must be out yo mind, I don't know why
Y'all niggas just don't know
You niggas is about to go oh no oh no
Way you're gonna stop my shine
Y'all niggas won't everstop mine
You must be out your mothafuckin' mind
I love it, I love it
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Loooove DMX