People get ready for the heartbeat (We're heartbeat props) get ready for the heartbeat props (We're giving props)
We're gonna make it funky with the props, y'all (We're giving props) time to get busy with the heartbeat props (We're giving props)
I give my man props he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) it out, y'all, proper respect is what we're giving (We're heartbeat props)
Uh, I give my man props 'cause he's (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that the proper respect is what giving
Seems you wondered 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 groupie for the old
A bass would say oohwee Peace to DU 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 can't go on, it's to drop a few bombs Get busy, G, go on and 'em to school Yeah, it's spread the jewels
I ask you about Malcolm and you me that he's wicked Farrakhan you can't seem to buy a ticket And check 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 trying to get through So why wait until the heartbeat Yo, go on and my man his props
If you're that down then act what you say KRS and Chuck need support I see you with the Dr King hanging on your wall Only difference is Chuck give you that call
To on Friday, yeah, it's kind of frightening Let me move so I don't get hit by the bolt of Striking you down 'cause you're A dead leader tax your mind Therefore he's not a threat to your time
All the and the dragging 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 keep it pumping
You got it all When you wait for the TV to 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 like Ice Cube
they'll tell the record straight Yo, my a prophet too, yo, god, you think he ain't? So do the right thing, not a black or a white thing 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 heartbeat props) I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait until the stops?) Proper respect is what we're
(We're giving props) I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait until the stops?) Don't you know, don't you know that 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 plans in his (Why until the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
I'm the type of guy sly like a fox An honor roll student in the school of knocks was different type 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 I don't give a fuck about I wanted to give a you out To the who went out on a whim He was a roody-poo for Huey Newton
But I'm thanking God for niggas like Slim And the chick the ran to see She was the fantasy Turner, the living legacy And still got you tripping off the legs you see chick they used to beg to see
Was Josephine Baker, she had them They loved the way she shook her But why did it take them so many To a little praise to who they ran rave to see
With a dark She was sex symbol befo' Monroe But her heart before They gave 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 break and throw bolos Be a bro and throw low blows
When you want to close the shows of your foes are those that you got to break like windows Check it, when respect goes it's time to a nose But give respect before the soul
Well, I respect is what respect'll get ya So I'm giving them gifts before they're stiff like the In the pictures of Vogue and 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 Smith & clear the lesson that your mama gave Mama gave PeeWee the same threats, she drastic measures Told me to give her the full or get my ass kicked It was my intention to relent just till the kick When she she'll roll over in a solid gold casket
When I was Muhammad Ali had me sprung 'Cause he was the champ, as the 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 they want me in the army but they can't me 'Cause I ain't no punk, I ain't man to Uncle Tommy Props to Islam, it's getting brothers together before the big Blast out, we're all assed-out We to see that 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 said proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man props he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Proper is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I said I give my man 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that proper respect is we're giving
(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 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 in his hand (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) Uh, 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 heartbeat props) I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Proper respect is we're giving
We're heartbeat props Why wait until the stops? We're giving props (Heartbeat props)
(We're giving props) You're giving respect to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
Yeah, Spike Lee, Alex Haley, Brand Nubian, sister Whoopi 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, Jackson, nuff respect, Paris Gangstarr, Gil Scott Heron, George the fuck Clinton, Louis Queen Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Angela Davis The entire Nation of Islam, nucka, know I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, Miles Davis, sister Assata Shakur Once known as Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Mandela Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Black Panther Party, James Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, nuff