People get ready for the heartbeat (We're giving props) Everybody get ready for the props (We're giving props)
We're gonna it funky with the heartbeat props, y'all (We're heartbeat props) It's to get busy with the heartbeat props (We're heartbeat props)
I give my man props 'cause living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Check it out, y'all, proper respect is what we're (We're giving props)
Uh, I give my man props he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that the respect is what we're giving
Seems like you wondered day if the Underground Is going to stay down with the beats Even if you that I'm a junkie for a bump that's funky And a fool for the loop, see, a groupie for the old
A bass freak 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 deal with the fronters So I go on, it's time to drop a few bombs Get busy, G, go on and 'em to school Yeah, it's time the jewels
I ask you about and you tell me that he's wicked Farrakhan comes you can't to buy a ticket And check what my got to say Right or wrong, you think that he deserves a play?
he's living for you and you and you and you The X tried but he died trying to get through So why until the heartbeat stops? 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 might give you that call
To march on Friday, yeah, kind of frightening Let me move so I don't get hit by the of lightning Striking you 'cause you're fronting A leader can't tax your mind Therefore he's not a threat to your time
All the lagging and the Yo, I got to do that day Yeah, you sound like an old bitch Fuck that fronting, that fronting pumping up the brothers 'cause the brothers keep it pumping
You got it all When you for the TV to tell 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 niggas Ice Cube
'Cause they'll tell the straight Yo, my a prophet too, yo, god, you think he ain't? So do the right thing, it's not a black or a thing We're here to let you know just a human being thing We're pulling out all stops 'cause it's give heartbeat props
(We're giving props) I my man props 'cause 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, don't you know that proper is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving more 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 that's sly a fox An honor roll student in the school of knocks There was type of brother that I used to look up to But I'm still giving props the props are due
But let me start with a fool I don't give a fuck I wanted to give a you out To the nigga who went out on a 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 legacy And she's still got you 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 them so many decades To give a little praise to who ran rave to see
a dark complexion She was sex symbol befo' Monroe But her heart before They props to the old pro
It a great man to mold those So I want to give props to my pops he told those But a time to break necks and throw bolos Be a cold bro and low blows
When you want to close the shows of your 'Cause foes are those you got to break like windows Check it, when respect it's time to break a nose But give before the soul goes
Well, I suppose is what respect'll get ya So I'm giving them gifts before they're stiff like the In the pictures of Vogue and flashy magazines You be thumbing in 'em, props to Johnson She was the black woman in 'em
Pee, drop the and end the pressure with the menace Smith & Wesson the lesson that your mama gave gave PeeWee the same 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 she'll 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, they his title when he wouldn't take the gun And fight in the only way he felt, then he won the belt again
Now they want me in the army but can't harm me 'Cause I no punk, I ain't under man to Uncle Tommy to Islam, it's getting brothers together before the big bomb Blast out, we're all assed-out We need to see that we got to start giving the props to the
(We're giving props) I said I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait until the stops?) Uh, I said respect 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 respect is we're giving
(We're giving props) I said I 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 in his hand (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
(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?) Proper respect is what we're
(We're heartbeat props) Uh, I said I give my man 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that proper respect is what giving
(We're heartbeat props) I give my man props 'cause living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Proper respect is we're giving
giving heartbeat props Why wait the heartbeat stops? We're heartbeat props (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving more respect to a man than you do my man And my man's got the in his hand (Why until the heartbeat 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, Andrew Jackson, Washington Sister Sarah Sahad Ali, Public Enemy, 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 Nation of Islam, nucka, know what I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, Miles motherfucking Davis, Assata Shakur Once known as Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Mandela Karreem Adul-Jabbar, the Black Panther Party, Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, nuff