People get for the heartbeat props (We're giving props) Everybody get ready for the heartbeat (We're giving props)
We're gonna make it funky with the heartbeat props, (We're giving props) It's time to get with the heartbeat props (We're heartbeat props)
I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Check it out, y'all, respect is what we're giving (We're giving props)
Uh, I my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know the proper respect is what we're giving
Seems you wondered each day if the Underground Is going to stay with the funky beats Even if you that I'm a junkie for a bump that's funky And a fool for the loop, see, a for the old one-twoiee
A bass freak would say Peace to DU 'cause I 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 with the So I can't go on, time to drop a few bombs Get busy, G, go on and take 'em to Yeah, it's time the jewels
I ask you Malcolm and you tell me that he's wicked 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 deserves a
he's living for you and you and you and you The brother X tried but he died trying to get So why wait until the heartbeat Yo, go on and give my man his
If you're that down then act what you say KRS and need support today I see you posing with the Dr King on your wall Only difference is Chuck might give you that
To march on Friday, yeah, it's kind of Let me move so I don't get hit by the of lightning 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 to do that day Yeah, you sound an old bitch nagging Fuck fronting, fuck that fronting We're pumping up the brothers 'cause the brothers it pumping
You got it all When you wait for the TV to tell you what's on Don't you hype on the mic ,yeah, never get it right That's why you see we gotta thank God, For like Ice Cube
'Cause they'll tell the straight Yo, my man's a prophet too, yo, god, you think he So do the thing, it's not a black or a white thing We're to let you know it's just a human being thing We're pulling out all stops 'cause it's time heartbeat props
(We're giving props) I give my man props he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Proper respect is what we're
(We're giving props) I give my man props 'cause he's (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know, you know that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) You're giving more to a dead man than you do my man And my man's got the in his hand (Why until the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
I'm the type of guy sly like a fox An honor roll in the school of hard knocks There was different of brother that I used to look up to But I'm still giving where the props are due
But let me start with a fool I give a fuck about I to give a fuck you out To the nigga who out on a whim He was a for shooting Huey Newton
But I'm thanking God for niggas Iceberg Slim And the the honky's ran to see She was the fantasy Tina Turner, the living And still got you tripping off the legs you see chick they used to beg to see
Was Baker, she had them hooked loved the way she shook her money-maker But why did it them so many decades To give a praise to who they ran rave to see
With a dark She was sex befo' Marilyn Monroe But her heart stopped They gave to the old pro
It took a great man to those So I want to give props to my pops he told those But there's a time to break necks and bolos Be a cold bro and 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 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 they're like the pose In the of Vogue and flashy fashion magazines You be thumbing in 'em, to Beverly Johnson She was the first black in 'em
Pee, drop the bomb and end the pressure the menace Smith & Wesson clear the lesson that your gave Mama PeeWee the same threats, she used drastic measures Told me to her the full respect or get my ass kicked It was my intention to relent just till the kick When she goes she'll roll over in a solid gold
When I was young Muhammad Ali had me he was the champ, as the champion he was my idol Yo, they took his when he wouldn't take the gun And in Vietnam the only way he felt, then he won the belt again
Now they want me in the but they can't harm me 'Cause I ain't no punk, I ain't under man to Uncle Props to Islam, it's getting brothers together 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 props 'cause he's (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Uh, I said proper respect is we're giving
(We're giving props) I said I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I I give my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Don't you know that respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) giving 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 respect to a dead man than you do my man And my man's got the plans in his (Why wait until the stops?) Proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) Uh, I said I give my man props 'cause he's (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I give my man props he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is what we're
giving heartbeat props Why wait until the stops? We're giving heartbeat (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving more respect to a dead man you do my man And my man's got the plans in his (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
Yeah, Spike Lee, Alex Haley, Brand Nubian, sister Goldberg Dick Gregory, X-Clan, sister Isis, BDP, Ali, Stevie Wonder Poor Righteous Teachers, Andrew Jackson, Washington Sister Sarah Sahad Ali, Enemy, Stokley Carmichael
Sister Winfrey, yeah, Jesse Jackson, nuff respect, Paris Gangstarr, Gil Scott Heron, George the Clinton, Louis Farrakhan Queen Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Angela Davis The entire Nation of Islam, nucka, know I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, Miles motherfucking Davis, Assata Shakur Once known as Joanne Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Black Panther Party, Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, nuff respect