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like a megaphone Pretty nigga heart skipped the Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror Poor to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, to baritone Mos Def one of the illest you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stepping your foundation into pebbles My words leave nerves unsettled You take it to the next down like a circus clown Cats like you can't get a pound Worldwide from the river to My show stay live, make the sound man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight lives with my 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 Whisper like they trouble I melt the ice grills rainwater puddles Make the leave on the humble steel in the hour Assemble my form my power My crush bones into powder You mumble a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, your masks and snatched Brooklyn take what you can't take I know a lot of cats hate All I can say There's a full of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers your receivers "I feel it," you can taste it through the The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at nearest home video
Tell cats they need to sit back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put your on cruise Try to you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, ten paces back Stay on Omegas Brooklyn like interstaters their license and their registration papers
My joint's so Make you peal out and mash your Get wild crash your whip chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset Tow truck got my in the deck I'm permanent tattoos and birth marks Third degree marks Driving on tracks like Dale Stay on the low like the spot Put a big loss on earn chart Nice the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom but often heard, while your jams is barely heard my name is a daily word From avenues to streets, and park places wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K can't delete the true Apache war drum on the level dangerous Arrow head killed all the cavemen cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement And get violated like a I ain't to play with I give a Goddamn your name is it and make 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 ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, your 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 your on cruise In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and 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 gassed up clowns observe the speed law Make these 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 these dude your whole shit up You better out money It ain't that out here Look at these man, it's funny man He probably just got car About to fuck whole shit up laws out here money 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, the, fuck off the road, money!