People get ready for the props (We're heartbeat props) Everybody get for the heartbeat props (We're heartbeat props)
We're gonna make it with the heartbeat props, y'all (We're giving props) It's to get busy with the heartbeat props (We're giving props)
I my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Check it out, y'all, respect is what we're giving (We're heartbeat props)
Uh, I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that the proper respect is what giving
Seems like you wondered each day if the Is to stay down with the funky beats Even if you know that I'm a junkie for a bump funky And a fool for the loop, see, a groupie for the old
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 funk front runner
But first we gotta deal with the So I can't go on, it's to drop a few bombs Get busy, G, go on and take 'em to Yeah, it's time the jewels
I ask you about Malcolm and you tell me that wicked Farrakhan comes you can't seem to buy a And check what my got to say Right or wrong, don't you think that he a play?
'Cause he's 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 really that down then act what you say KRS and Chuck need today I see you posing with the Dr King on your wall Only difference is Chuck might give you call
To march on Friday, yeah, kind of frightening Let me so I don't get hit by the bolt of lightning Striking you down 'cause fronting A dead can't tax your mind Therefore not a threat to your personal time
All the lagging and the Yo, I got to do that day Yeah, you like an old bitch nagging Fuck fronting, fuck that fronting We're up the brothers 'cause the brothers keep it pumping
You got it all When you wait for the TV to tell you going on you hype on the mic ,yeah, they never get it right That's why you see we gotta thank God, For niggas like Ice
they'll tell the record straight Yo, my man's a prophet too, yo, god, you think he So do the right thing, it's not a black or a thing We're to let you know it's just 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 what giving
(We're giving props) I give my man props 'cause he's (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know, don't you know proper respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) You're giving respect 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 that's sly a fox An honor roll in the school of hard knocks There was type of brother that I used to look up to But I'm still props where the props are due
But let me start with a fool I don't 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 God for niggas like Iceberg Slim And the chick the 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 Josephine Baker, she had hooked They loved the way she shook her But why did it take so many decades To give a little to who they ran rave to see
With a complexion She was sex symbol befo' Monroe But her heart stopped They props to the old pro
It took a man to mold those So I want to props to my pops because he told those But there's a to break necks and throw 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, when respect goes time to break a nose But give respect before the soul
Well, I respect is what respect'll get ya So I'm giving them gifts they're stiff like the pose In the pictures of Vogue and 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 & clear the lesson that your mama gave Mama gave PeeWee the threats, she used drastic measures Told me to give her the respect or get my ass kicked It was my intention to relent just till the kick When she goes roll over in a solid gold casket
When I was young Muhammad Ali had me he was the champ, as the champion he was my idol Yo, they took his title when he take the gun And in Vietnam the only way he felt, then he won the belt 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 that we got to start giving the to the living
(We're heartbeat props) I I give my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Uh, I said proper is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man props 'cause he's (Why wait until the stops?) Proper is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I I give my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know proper respect is what we're giving
(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 the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) You're more respect to a dead man than you do my man And my man's got the in his hand (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is what we're
(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 proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is what we're
We're giving heartbeat Why wait the heartbeat stops? We're giving props (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) giving more respect to a dead man than 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, Nubian, sister Whoopi Goldberg Dick Gregory, X-Clan, sister Isis, BDP, Muhammad Ali, Stevie Poor Righteous Teachers, Andrew Jackson, Washington Sister Sarah Sahad Ali, Public Enemy, Stokley
Sister Oprah Winfrey, yeah, Jackson, nuff respect, Paris Gangstarr, Gil Scott Heron, George the fuck Clinton, Farrakhan Sister Queen Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Davis The Nation of Islam, nucka, know what I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, motherfucking Davis, sister Assata Shakur Once as Joanne Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Mandela Adul-Jabbar, the Black Panther Party, James Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, nuff