Relax, the brakes You're speeding You'll smash your shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on these streets money, down (slow down) on the wrong cats
Clear a megaphone nigga heart skipped the metronome Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror Poor to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the that you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stone Smash foundation into pebbles My words leave nerves unsettled You take it to the level down like a circus clown Cats like you can't even get a Worldwide from the to lakeside My stage show stay live, the sound man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight lives with my ball lines I'm home 'fore I'm done with all Got you shook a fault line Come all and get tarnished Brooklyn got pay roll garnished form a huddle Whisper like they trouble I the ice grills into rainwater puddles Make the leave on the humble Black in the hour Assemble my skill my power My poems bones into powder You mumble like a I'm Mos Def, you need to louder heroes! Get your power, your masks and snatched Brooklyn take what you take back I know a lot of cats hate All I can say There's a city full of you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers your receivers "I feel it," you can it through the speakers The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme at your nearest home video
them cats 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 on time Omegas Brooklyn like interstaters Take their license and their registration
My so passionate Make you peal out and your shit 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 like tattoos and birth Third degree burn Driving on like Dale Earnheart Stay on the low like the earth Put a big on your earn chart Nice since the nurse signed my birth Seldom seen but often heard, while jams is barely heard Just my name is a word From avenues to streets, terraces and park wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K can't the true ancient Apache war on the ranges level dangerous Arrow that killed all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but step on the And get violated a plaintiff I shit to play with I give a Goddamn your name is Delete it and it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell mother Conference you wack crew and tell each other That they ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, your Mush off or you get off like a ovary
Tell them cats need to ease back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise In a rush you your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, ten paces back Brook-nahm The is on, no off-ramp or detour these gassed up jokers observe the speed law Make gassed up clowns 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 chill Lights be changing on these streets dude Smash whole shit up You better out money It ain't like that out at these cats man, it's funny man He probably just got car About to your whole shit up Speed 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, Stay the, off the road, money!