Relax, the brakes You're money smash your whole shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on these streets money, down (slow down) on the wrong cats
Clear a megaphone Pretty nigga heart the metronome Rocked the Trump to the terror dome Poor house to pleasure Soprano, alto, to baritone Mos Def one of the illest you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stepping Smash your foundation pebbles My words your nerves unsettled You take it to the level down like a circus clown Cats like you even get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My stage show live, make the sound man stage dive I cut fat to eight lives with my eight ball lines I'm home 'fore I'm with all nine Got you shook like a line Come all and get tarnished Brooklyn got your pay garnished They form a like they want trouble I melt the ice grills into rainwater Make the proud-hearted leave on the Black steel in the my skill form my power My poems crush bones into You mumble a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to louder heroes! Get your power, your masks and capes Brooklyn take what you can't 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 believers your receivers "I feel it," you can it through the speakers The three six original sketch so visual rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video
Tell them they need to sit back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put joint on cruise Try to rush you scuff brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten paces Stay on Omegas Brooklyn patrol interstaters their license and their registration papers
My joint's so Make you peal out and mash shit Get wild cold crash your chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset Tow truck got my tape in the I'm permanent like tattoos and marks Third burn marks Driving on tracks Dale Earnheart on the low like the earth spot Put a big loss on your chart Nice the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, while your is barely heard Just my name is a word avenues to streets, terraces and park places Stair wells, jail cells, to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K can't delete the ancient Apache war drum on the level dangerous Arrow that killed all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but on the pavement And get like a plaintiff I ain't to play with I give a what your name is Delete it and make it so it get repeated it Tell the feds, your girl, tell your mother Conference call you wack crew and tell other That they just ain't me I'm Mos Def, hopefully Mush off or you get bust off like a
Tell them they need to ease back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, cool and relax Take a breath, take ten back Vietnam The heat is on, no or detour these gassed up jokers observe the speed law Make these gassed up observe the speed law Make these gassed up clowns observe the law they speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you chill money be changing fast on these streets dude Smash your whole up You cool out money It ain't like out here Look at these man, it's funny man He probably got that car About to fuck your shit up Speed laws out here 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, Stay the, off the road, money!