People get ready for the heartbeat (We're giving 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 time to get busy with the props (We're heartbeat props)
I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Check it out, y'all, respect is what we're giving (We're heartbeat props)
Uh, I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Don't you know that the proper respect is what we're
Seems like you each day if the Underground Is going to stay down with the funky Even if you know that I'm a junkie for a 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 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 'em to school Yeah, it's spread the jewels
I ask you about and you tell me that he's wicked comes you can't seem to buy a ticket And what my man's got to say Right or wrong, don't you that he deserves a play?
'Cause living for you and you and you and you The brother X tried but he trying to get through So why until the heartbeat stops? Yo, go on and my man his props
If you're really that down act what you say KRS and Chuck need today I see you posing with the Dr hanging on your wall Only difference is might give you that call
To march on Friday, yeah, it's of frightening Let me so I don't get hit by the bolt of lightning Striking you down 'cause fronting A dead leader can't tax your Therefore he's not a threat to your personal
All the lagging and the Yo, I got to do that day Yeah, you sound an old bitch nagging Fuck that fronting, fuck that We're pumping up the brothers 'cause the keep 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 niggas Ice Cube
'Cause they'll 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 white We're here to let you know it's just a 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 until the heartbeat stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know, don't you know 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 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 student in the of hard 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 a fool I don't give a fuck about I wanted to a fuck you out To the nigga who out on a whim He was a roody-poo for Huey Newton
But I'm thanking God for like Iceberg Slim And the chick the ran to see She was the fantasy Tina Turner, the living And she's still got you tripping off the you see Another chick they to beg to see
Was Baker, she had them hooked They loved the way she her money-maker But why did it take so many decades To give a praise to who they ran rave to see
With a complexion She was sex symbol befo' Marilyn But her heart before They props to the old pro
It took a man to mold those So I want to give props to my because he told those But there's a time to necks and throw bolos Be a cold bro and low blows
When you to close the shows of your foes 'Cause foes are those that you got to break windows Check it, respect goes it's time to break a nose But give respect the soul goes
Well, I suppose respect is respect'll get ya So I'm giving them gifts before they're like the pose In the pictures of Vogue and flashy fashion You be thumbing in 'em, props to Beverly She was the first woman in 'em
Pee, drop the bomb and end the pressure with the Smith & Wesson the lesson that your mama gave Mama PeeWee the same threats, she used drastic measures Told me to give her the full respect or get my ass It was my intention to relent just till the kick When she goes roll over 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, took his title when he wouldn't take the gun And fight in Vietnam the only way he felt, then he won the again
Now they me in the army 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 together the big bomb Blast out, before all assed-out We need to see that we got to start the props to the living
(We're heartbeat props) I said I my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Uh, I said proper respect is what giving
(We're giving props) I said I give my man props 'cause he's (Why until 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 until the stops?) Don't you know that proper respect is what giving
(We're giving props) giving more 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)
(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 what giving
(We're heartbeat props) Uh, I said I give my man props he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I give my man props he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Proper is what we're giving
We're giving heartbeat 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 in his hand (Why wait until the stops?) (Heartbeat props)
Yeah, Spike Lee, Alex Haley, Brand Nubian, Whoopi Goldberg Dick Gregory, X-Clan, sister Isis, BDP, Ali, Stevie Wonder Poor Righteous Teachers, Jackson, Denzel Washington Sister Sarah Sahad Ali, Public Enemy, Carmichael
Sister Winfrey, yeah, Jesse Jackson, nuff respect, Paris Gangstarr, Gil Heron, George the fuck Clinton, Louis Farrakhan Sister Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Angela Davis The entire Nation of Islam, nucka, what I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, Miles motherfucking Davis, Assata Shakur Once known as Joanne Chesimard, Townsend, Nelson Mandela Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Black Panther Party, Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, nuff