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