People get ready for the props (We're heartbeat props) Everybody get ready for the props (We're heartbeat props)
gonna make it funky with the heartbeat props, y'all (We're giving props) time to get busy with the heartbeat props (We're heartbeat props)
I give my man props he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Check it out, y'all, proper is what we're giving (We're heartbeat props)
Uh, I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know the proper respect is what we're giving
Seems like you wondered each day if the Is going to stay down with the funky if you know 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 to DU 'cause I like the way you do me I to go on about the funk, matter 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 take 'em to Yeah, it's time spread the
I ask you about Malcolm and you tell me that he's Farrakhan comes you seem to buy a ticket And check my man's got to say Right or wrong, don't you think that he deserves a
'Cause 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 then act what you say KRS and need support today I see you posing with the Dr King on your wall Only is Chuck 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 personal time
All the lagging and the Yo, I got something to do day Yeah, you sound like an old bitch Fuck that fronting, fuck that 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 Don't you hype on the mic ,yeah, 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 a prophet too, yo, god, you think he ain't? So do the right thing, not a black or a white thing here to let you know it's just a human being thing We're pulling out all 'cause it's time give heartbeat props
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait until the stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know, don't you know that 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 wait until the stops?) (Heartbeat props)
I'm the type of guy sly like a fox An honor roll student in the 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 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 shooting Huey
But I'm thanking God for niggas like Slim And the chick the ran to see She was the honky-tonk's Tina Turner, the legacy And she's got you tripping off the legs you see Another chick they to beg to see
Was Josephine Baker, she had hooked They the way she shook her money-maker But why did it them so many decades To give a little praise to who they ran to see
With a complexion She was sex befo' Marilyn Monroe But her heart stopped They gave to the old pro
It took a man to mold those So I want to give props to my pops because he told But there's a time to break necks and throw 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, when respect goes it's time to a nose But give before the soul goes
Well, I suppose 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, drop the bomb and end the pressure the menace Smith & Wesson clear the lesson that your mama Mama gave PeeWee the same threats, she used measures Told me to her the full respect or get my ass kicked It was my intention to relent till the last kick When she goes she'll over in a solid gold casket
When I was young Ali had me sprung 'Cause he was the champ, as the 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 want me in the army but they harm me 'Cause I ain't no punk, I ain't man to Uncle Tommy to Islam, it's getting brothers together before the big bomb Blast out, before we're all We need to see we got to start giving the props to the living
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Uh, I proper respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man props 'cause he's (Why until the heartbeat stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I I give my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Don't you know that proper respect is we're giving
(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 until the stops?) (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) giving more respect to a dead man than you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why until the heartbeat stops?) respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) Uh, I said I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) you know that proper respect is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man 'cause he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) respect is what we're giving
We're giving heartbeat Why wait until the stops? We're giving props (Heartbeat props)
(We're giving props) You're giving more respect to a dead man you do my man And my got the plans in his hand (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
Yeah, Spike Lee, Alex Haley, Nubian, sister 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 Oprah Winfrey, yeah, Jackson, nuff respect, Paris Gangstarr, Gil Heron, George the fuck Clinton, Louis Farrakhan Sister Queen Latifah, Bill Cosby, sister Angela The entire Nation of Islam, nucka, know I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, Miles Davis, sister Assata Shakur Once known as Joanne Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Black Party, James Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, respect