Relax, pump the You're speeding You'll smash your shit up (slow down) Lights be fast on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the wrong
Clear a megaphone Pretty heart skipped the metronome Rocked the Tower to the terror dome Poor house to domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest you ever known steady baby, you a stepping stone Smash foundation into pebbles My words leave your unsettled You take it to the next level Looking a circus clown Cats like you can't even get a Worldwide from the river to My stage show stay live, make the sound man dive I cut fat to eight lives with my eight ball lines I'm home 'fore I'm with all nine Got you shook a fault line all shine and get tarnished Brooklyn got your pay roll They form a like they want trouble I melt the ice grills into rainwater the proud-hearted leave on the humble Black in the hour Assemble my skill my power My poems bones into powder You like a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, your and capes snatched Brooklyn what you can't take back I know a lot of cats that All I can say There's a full of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers adjust your "I feel it," you can it through the speakers The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at nearest home video
Tell them cats they need to sit back and observe they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your on cruise Try to rush you scuff brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, ten paces back Stay on time Brooklyn like interstaters Take their license and their papers
My joint's so you peal out and mash your shit Get wild cold crash whip 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 degree burn Driving on like Dale Earnheart Stay on the low the earth spot Put a big loss on your chart Nice since the nurse my birth chart seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my is a daily word From avenues to streets, and park places Stair wells, cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but fans chase it Y2K delete the true ancient Apache war on the ranges level dangerous Arrow head that killed all the They cry John-Blazing, but step on the And get like a plaintiff I ain't shit to with I give a Goddamn what name is it and make it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, your girl, tell your mother Conference call you wack crew and each other That they ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, your off or you get bust off like a ovary
Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where at Brook-nahm The is on Put your joint on In a rush you your brake shoes, just cool and relax a breath, take ten paces back Brook-nahm The is on, no off-ramp or detour Make these gassed up jokers the speed law Make these gassed up clowns 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 Lights be changing on these streets dude Smash whole shit up You cool out money It ain't like out here Look at these cats man, it's man He probably just got car About to your whole shit up Speed laws out here Knight 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!