Relax, the brakes You're speeding smash your whole shit up (slow down) Lights be fast on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the wrong
Clear a megaphone Pretty nigga heart the metronome Rocked the Trump Tower to the dome Poor to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the that you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stone Smash your foundation pebbles My words leave your unsettled You it to the next level down Looking like a circus Cats like you even get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My stage show stay live, make the sound man stage I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball I'm home I'm done with all nine Got you shook like a fault Come all and get tarnished Brooklyn got pay roll garnished form a huddle Whisper they want trouble I melt the ice grills into puddles the proud-hearted leave on the humble Black steel in the Assemble my skill my power My poems bones into powder You mumble a coward I'm Mos Def, you to speak louder heroes! Get your power, masks and capes snatched Brooklyn take what you take back I know a lot of hate that All I can say a city full of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers your receivers "I feel it," you can taste it the speakers The three six sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme at your nearest home video
Tell them cats they need to sit back and where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your on cruise Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and Take a breath, take ten back Stay on time Brooklyn patrol like Take their and their registration papers
My joint's so Make you out and mash your shit Get wild cold crash your Front chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too Tow truck got my in the deck I'm permanent like tattoos and marks Third degree marks Driving on tracks like Dale on the low like the earth spot Put a big loss on your earn since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my is a daily word From avenues to streets, terraces and park Stair wells, jail cells, to basements basic, but still fans chase it Y2K can't the true ancient Apache war drum on the level dangerous Arrow head that killed all the They cry John-Blazing, but step on the And get violated a plaintiff I ain't shit to play I give a what your name is Delete it and it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your Conference call you wack crew and tell other That they just ain't me I'm Mos Def, hopefully Mush off or you get off like a ovary
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 scuff your shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, ten paces back Vietnam The heat is on, no off-ramp or Make these up jokers observe the speed law Make these gassed up observe the speed law Make gassed up clowns observe the speed law Cause speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you better money Lights be fast on these streets dude your whole shit up You better cool out It like that out here at these cats man, it's funny man He just got that car About to fuck your shit up Speed laws out here Knight riding In like 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!