People get ready for the heartbeat (We're heartbeat props) Everybody get ready for the heartbeat (We're giving props)
We're make it funky with the heartbeat props, y'all (We're heartbeat props) It's time to get busy with the heartbeat (We're giving props)
I give my man props he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Check it out, y'all, respect is what we're giving (We're giving props)
Uh, I give my man 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that the proper respect is we're giving
Seems like you wondered each day if the Is going to stay down the funky beats Even if you know that I'm a junkie for a bump that's And a for the loop, see, a groupie for the old one-twoiee
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 gotta deal the fronters So I go on, it's time to drop a few bombs Get busy, G, go on and 'em to school Yeah, it's time spread the
I ask you about Malcolm and you tell me that he's Farrakhan comes you can't seem to buy a And check my man's got to say Right or wrong, don't you think that he a play?
he's living for you and you and you and you The brother X tried but he trying to get through So why wait the heartbeat stops? Yo, go on and give my man his
If you're really that down act what you say KRS and Chuck need support I see you posing with the Dr hanging on your wall Only difference is Chuck might give you call
To march on Friday, yeah, it's of frightening Let me move so I don't get hit by the bolt of Striking you 'cause you're fronting A dead leader tax your mind Therefore he's not a threat to personal time
All the lagging and the Yo, I got something to do 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 wait for the TV to tell you what's on you hype on the mic ,yeah, they never get it right That's why you see we gotta God, y'all For niggas Ice Cube
'Cause tell the record straight Yo, my man's a too, yo, god, you think he ain't? So do the right thing, it's not a black or a white We're here to let you it's just a human being thing We're pulling out all stops it's time give heartbeat props
(We're giving props) I give my man 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is we're giving
(We're giving props) I give my man 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know, don't you that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're giving 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)
I'm the of guy that's sly like a fox An roll student in the school of hard knocks There was type of brother that I used 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 give a you out To the nigga who went out on a He was a roody-poo for shooting Huey
But I'm God for niggas like Iceberg Slim And the chick the ran to see She was the fantasy Tina Turner, the legacy And she's got you tripping off the legs you see chick they used to beg to see
Was Josephine Baker, she had them They the way she shook her money-maker But why did it take them so decades To give a praise to who they ran rave to see
a dark complexion She was sex symbol befo' Monroe But her heart stopped gave props to the old pro
It a great man to mold those So I want to give to my pops because he told those But there's a time to break necks and throw Be a cold bro and throw low
When you want to the shows of your foes foes are those that you got to break like windows Check it, when goes it's time to break a nose But give respect before the goes
Well, I suppose respect is what get ya So I'm giving gifts before they're stiff like the pose In the pictures of and flashy fashion magazines You be thumbing in 'em, props to Johnson She was the first woman in 'em
Pee, drop the bomb and end the pressure with the & Wesson clear the lesson that your mama gave Mama gave PeeWee the same threats, she used drastic Told me to give her the respect or get my ass kicked It was my intention to relent till the last kick When she goes she'll roll in a solid gold casket
When I was Muhammad Ali had me sprung he was the champ, as the champion he was my idol Yo, they took his title when he take the gun And fight in the only way he felt, then he won the belt again
Now want me in the army but they can't harm me 'Cause I no punk, I ain't under man to Uncle Tommy to Islam, it's getting brothers together before the big bomb Blast out, we're all assed-out We need to see that we got to start the props to the living
(We're giving props) I said I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Uh, I said proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I I give my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is what giving
(We're giving props) I said I give my man props 'cause he's (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that proper respect is what giving
(We're heartbeat 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)
(We're giving props) You're giving more to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why wait until the stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) Uh, I said I give my man props he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) you know that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) respect is what we're giving
We're heartbeat props Why wait the heartbeat stops? We're giving heartbeat (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving more to a dead man than you do my man And my man's got the plans in his (Why wait until the stops?) (Heartbeat props)
Yeah, Spike Lee, Haley, Brand Nubian, sister Whoopi Goldberg Gregory, X-Clan, sister Isis, BDP, Muhammad Ali, Stevie Wonder Poor Righteous Teachers, Jackson, Denzel Washington Sarah Sahad Ali, Public Enemy, Stokley Carmichael
Sister Oprah Winfrey, yeah, Jesse Jackson, nuff respect, Gangstarr, Gil Scott Heron, George the fuck Clinton, Louis Sister Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Angela Davis The Nation of Islam, nucka, know what I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, motherfucking Davis, sister Assata Shakur known as Joanne Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Mandela Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Black Party, James Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, respect