Up 2 Di Time
You know it's Kartel, Wayne Marshall

Ask him
Why you do it when you know you shouldn't be doin' it?
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a curry or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it? Hey (Up 2 Di Time)
Why you doin' when you know you shouldn't be doin' it? Hey
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a ackee or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it? (Wul' on)

Yo sah, if a foreign you get it from, nuh bodda bring it out yah
You nuh deal wid di chicken, why you eat di coleslaw?
And you nuh inna vegetable, why you eat di chocha?
Nyam Shirley biscuit, drink June plum without straw
Man a pitch him like Mcguire or Sammy Sosa
Then what him do to Likkle Kim inna di Testarossa?
Secret pop out a road like bread pop out a toasta
Deh pon di notice board like a poster

Ask him
Why you do it when you know you shouldn't be doin' it?
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a curry or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it? Hey (Up 2 Di Time)
Why you doin' when you know you shouldn't be doin' it? Hey
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a ackee or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it?

Portmore, me lose offa certain man you know
Cah dem tek di gyal pussy jaw fi piece a ham, enuh
Man nuh nyam blue draws neither pum pum nyam you know
You nuh dweet, put up a hand, enuh
Cah Portmore man a badman, enuh
That nuh fi eat cah it smell like a ram, enuh
Skin it out wide then you apply the jam, enuh
Slice it like bread then you kill it 'til ram, enuh
Bow cat fi dead seh badman ban it out, you nuh ram, enuh

Ask him
Why you do it when you know you shouldn't be doin' it?
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a curry or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it? Hey
Why you doin' when you know you shouldn't be doin' it? Hey
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a ackee or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it? (Ay, wul' on deh)

When she bring you under mek you why dem roll ova
Don't tun rollova bredrin and bring her back under
That me wonda, to how me see you deal wid Amanda
Yo, if she bow, you muss did have the meat a chamba chamba
To how you draw Cassandra, you can fi smell the ganja
But me came, me saw, me conquer, find the harbor, drop the anchor
Aim, boom, buss the tanker, woman a pageme from Sri Lanka
San Francisco then why you nyam Tanesha like a Kisco

Ask him
Why you do it when you know you shouldn't be doin' it?
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a curry or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it? Hey (Up 2 Di Time)
Why you doin' when you know you shouldn't be doin' it? Hey
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a ackee or a stew in it
So why you doin' it? Why you, why you doin' it?

Yo sah, if a foreign you get it from, nuh bodda bring it out yah
You nuh deal wid di chicken, why you eat di chocha?
And you nuh inna vegetable, why you eat di coleslaw?
You nyam Shirley biscuit, drink June plum without straw
Man a pitch him like Mcguire or Sammy Sosa
Then what him do to Likkle Kim inna di Testarossa?
The secret pop out a road like bread pop out a toasta
Deh pon di notice board like a poster

Ask him
Why you do it when you know you shouldn't be doin' it?
Why you chewin' it when you should be screwin' it?
I know you never see a curry or a stew in it