People get ready for the props (We're heartbeat props) get ready for the heartbeat props (We're heartbeat props)
We're gonna make it funky with the props, y'all (We're heartbeat props) It's time to get with the heartbeat props (We're giving props)
I give my man props he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Check it out, y'all, respect is what we're giving (We're heartbeat props)
Uh, I give my man props he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Don't you know that the proper is what we're giving
like 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 bump funky And a for the loop, see, a groupie for the old one-twoiee
A bass would 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 another funk runner
But first we gotta with the fronters 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 he's Farrakhan comes you can't seem to buy a And check my man's got to say Right or wrong, don't you think 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 wait until the heartbeat Yo, go on and give my man his
If you're that down then act what you say KRS and Chuck support today I see you posing with the Dr King hanging on your Only is Chuck might give you that call
To march on Friday, yeah, kind of frightening Let me move so I don't get hit by the bolt of Striking you 'cause you're fronting A dead leader can't tax mind Therefore he's not a threat to personal time
All the lagging and the Yo, I got something to do day Yeah, you like 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 tell you going on Don't you hype on the mic ,yeah, they get it right That's why you see we gotta God, y'all For like Ice Cube
'Cause they'll tell the record Yo, my man's a 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 it's just a being thing We're pulling out all stops 'cause time give heartbeat props
(We're giving props) I my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Proper is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I my man props 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) you know, don't you know that proper respect is what 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 the heartbeat stops?) (Heartbeat props)
I'm the type of guy sly like a fox An honor student in the school of hard knocks There was different type of brother that I to look up to But I'm still giving props where the 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 roody-poo for shooting Newton
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 living And she's still got you off the legs you see Another chick they to beg to see
Was Josephine Baker, she had them loved the way she shook her money-maker But why did it them so many decades To a little praise to who they ran rave to see
a dark complexion She was sex symbol Marilyn Monroe But her heart before They gave to the old pro
It a great man to mold those So I want to give props to my pops because he those But there's a time to break necks and bolos Be a cold bro and throw low
When you want to close the of your foes 'Cause are those that you got to break like windows Check it, when respect goes it's time to a nose But give before the soul goes
Well, I suppose respect is what get ya So I'm giving them gifts before stiff like the pose In the pictures of and flashy fashion magazines You be in 'em, props to Beverly Johnson She was the black 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 used drastic 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 she'll roll over in a solid casket
When I was young Ali had me sprung 'Cause he was the champ, as the he was my idol Yo, they took his when he wouldn't take the gun And fight in Vietnam the only way he felt, then he won the again
Now want me in the army but they can't harm me 'Cause I ain't no punk, I ain't under man to Tommy Props to Islam, getting brothers together before the big bomb Blast out, before all assed-out We need to see that we got to 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 my man props 'cause he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Proper is what we're giving
(We're heartbeat props) I said I give my man 'cause he's living (Why until the heartbeat stops?) you know that 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 got the plans in his hand (Why wait until the stops?) (Heartbeat props)
(We're giving props) You're 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 giving props) Uh, I said I give my man props he's living (Why wait until the stops?) Don't you know proper respect is what we're giving
(We're giving props) I give my man props he's living (Why wait the heartbeat stops?) Proper is what we're giving
We're heartbeat props Why wait until the stops? We're giving props (Heartbeat props)
(We're heartbeat props) You're giving more respect to a 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, Nubian, sister Whoopi Goldberg Dick Gregory, X-Clan, sister Isis, BDP, Muhammad Ali, Stevie Poor Righteous Teachers, Jackson, Denzel Washington Sister Sarah Sahad Ali, Public Enemy, Carmichael
Sister Oprah Winfrey, yeah, Jesse Jackson, nuff respect, Gangstarr, Gil Scott Heron, the fuck Clinton, Louis Farrakhan Sister Queen Latifah, Cosby, sister Angela Davis The entire Nation of Islam, nucka, what I'm saying?
Afrika Bambaataa, Miles motherfucking Davis, Assata Shakur Once known as Chesimard, Robert Townsend, Nelson Mandela Adul-Jabbar, the Black Panther Party, James Earl Jones The FOIs, nucka, Howard E. Rollins, sister Naomi, yeah, nuff