People get ready for the heartbeat (We're heartbeat props) Everybody get ready for the props (We're heartbeat props)
We're gonna make it funky the heartbeat props, y'all (We're heartbeat props) It's to get busy with the heartbeat props (We're heartbeat props)
I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait until the stops?) Check it out, y'all, proper is what we're giving (We're heartbeat props)
Uh, I give my man props he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) you know that the proper respect is what we're giving
Seems like you each day if the Underground Is going to stay down with the funky Even if you know that I'm a for a bump that's funky And a for the loop, see, a groupie for the old one-twoiee
A bass freak say oohwee to DU 'cause I like the way you do me I love to go on the funk, matter of fact I'd love to be another front runner
But we gotta deal with the fronters So I can't go on, it's time to a few bombs Get busy, G, go on and take 'em to Yeah, it's time spread the
I ask you about and you tell me that he's wicked Farrakhan you can't seem to buy a ticket And check my man's got to say Right or wrong, you think that he deserves a play?
he's living for you and you and you and you The brother X but he died trying to get through So why wait the heartbeat stops? Yo, go on and give my man his
If you're really down then act what you say KRS and Chuck support today I see you posing with the Dr King on your wall Only difference is Chuck give you that call
To march on Friday, yeah, kind of frightening Let me move so I don't get hit by the bolt of Striking you down 'cause you're A leader can't tax your mind Therefore he's not a threat to personal time
All the and the dragging Yo, I got to do that day Yeah, you sound an old bitch nagging that fronting, fuck that fronting We're pumping up the 'cause the brothers keep it pumping
You got it all When you for the TV to tell you what's going on you hype on the mic ,yeah, they never get it right That's why you see we gotta God, y'all For niggas like Ice
'Cause they'll tell the straight Yo, my a prophet too, yo, god, you think he ain't? So do the right thing, not a black or a white thing We're here to let you know it's a human being thing We're pulling out all stops 'cause it's time give heartbeat
(We're heartbeat props) I my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man props 'cause he's (Why until the heartbeat stops?) you know, don't you know that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) giving more respect to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why until the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
I'm the type of guy sly like a fox An honor roll student in the school of knocks There was different type of brother that I to look up to But I'm still giving props the props are due
But let me start with a fool I don't give a fuck I wanted to a fuck you out To the nigga who out on a whim He was a roody-poo for shooting Newton
But I'm thanking God for niggas like Iceberg And the the honky's ran to see She was the honky-tonk's Turner, the living legacy And she's still got you off the legs you see Another chick used to beg to see
Was Josephine Baker, she had them They loved the way she shook her But why did it take them so decades To give a little praise to who ran rave to see
With a complexion She was sex symbol Marilyn Monroe But her heart before gave props to the old pro
It took a great man to mold So I to give props to my pops because he told those But there's a time to break necks and bolos Be a bro and throw low blows
you want to close the shows of your foes 'Cause foes are that you got to break like windows Check it, respect goes it's time to break a nose But respect before the soul goes
Well, I suppose respect is what get ya So I'm giving them gifts before stiff like the pose In the pictures of and flashy fashion magazines You be in 'em, props to Beverly Johnson She was the first black in 'em
Pee, the bomb and end the pressure with the menace Smith & Wesson clear the lesson your mama gave Mama gave PeeWee the same threats, she used measures Told me to give her the respect or get my ass kicked It was my intention to just till the last kick When she goes she'll roll in a solid gold casket
When I was young Ali had me sprung he was the champ, as the champion he was my idol Yo, they took his when he wouldn't take the gun And fight in Vietnam the only way he felt, he won the belt again
Now they want me in the but they can't harm me 'Cause I ain't no punk, I under man to Uncle Tommy Props to Islam, it's getting brothers before the big bomb Blast out, before we're all We need to see that we got to start the props to the living
(We're heartbeat props) I I give my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Uh, I said proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man props 'cause he's (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is what we're
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving respect to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why until the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) giving more respect to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is what giving
(We're giving props) Uh, I I give my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait until the stops?) Proper respect is what giving
We're heartbeat props Why wait until the stops? We're heartbeat props (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) You're more respect to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why wait until the stops?) (Heartbeat props)
Yeah, Spike Lee, Alex Haley, Nubian, sister Whoopi Goldberg Dick Gregory, X-Clan, sister Isis, BDP, Ali, Stevie Wonder Poor Righteous Teachers, Andrew Jackson, Denzel Sister Sahad Ali, Public Enemy, Stokley Carmichael
Oprah Winfrey, yeah, Jesse Jackson, nuff respect, Paris Gangstarr, Gil Scott Heron, George the fuck Clinton, Farrakhan Sister Queen Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Angela The entire Nation of Islam, nucka, what I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, motherfucking Davis, sister Assata Shakur Once known as Joanne Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Mandela Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Black Panther Party, Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, respect