Relax, the brakes speeding money You'll smash your shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on these streets money, slow (slow down) Sleeping on the cats
like a megaphone Pretty nigga heart the metronome Rocked the Trump to the terror dome Poor to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, to baritone Mos Def one of the illest that you ever Rock baby, you a stepping stone your foundation into pebbles My leave your nerves unsettled You take it to the next level like a circus clown Cats like you even get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My stage show stay live, make the man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight with my eight ball lines I'm home 'fore I'm done all nine Got you shook like a line Come all shine and get Brooklyn got your pay garnished They a huddle Whisper like they trouble I the ice grills into rainwater puddles Make the leave on the humble Black steel in the Assemble my form my power My crush bones into powder You mumble like a I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, your and capes snatched take what you can't take back I a lot of cats hate that All I can say There's a city full of walls you can post at All the doubters and adjust your receivers "I feel it," you can taste it through the The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme at your nearest home video
Tell cats they need to sit back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise Try to rush you scuff brake shoes, just cool and relax a breath, take ten paces back Stay on time Brooklyn like interstaters Take their license and registration papers
My so passionate you peal out and mash your shit Get wild crash your whip Front chassis wrecked, but ock you be too upset Tow truck got my tape in the I'm permanent tattoos and birth marks Third degree marks Driving on like Dale Earnheart Stay on the low like the spot Put a big loss on earn chart since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, while jams is barely heard Just my name is a word From avenues to streets, terraces and places Stair wells, jail cells, to basements Arrangement basic, but still chase it Y2K delete the true ancient war drum on the ranges Skill level Arrow head that all the cavemen cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement And get violated like a I ain't shit to play I give a what your name is it and make it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, your girl, tell your mother call you wack crew and tell each other That they just holding me I'm Mos Def, hopefully Mush off or you get bust off like a
them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put joint on cruise In a rush you your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten paces Vietnam The heat is on, no off-ramp or Make these up jokers observe the speed law Make these up clowns observe the speed law Make gassed up clowns observe the speed law they speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you chill money Lights be changing fast on streets dude Smash your shit up You better cool out It ain't that out here Look at cats man, it's funny man He probably got that car About to fuck whole shit up Speed out here money riding cats In control interstaters, state-ahs, state-ahs, State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, the, fuck off the road, money!