Relax, the brakes You're money You'll smash whole shit up (slow down) be changing fast on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the cats
like a megaphone Pretty nigga heart skipped the Rocked the Trump Tower to the dome house to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest you ever known Rock baby, you a stepping stone Smash your into pebbles My leave your nerves unsettled You take it to the next level Looking like a circus like you can't even get a pound Worldwide from the to lakeside My stage show stay live, the sound man stage dive I cut fat to eight lives with my eight ball lines I'm home 'fore I'm done all nine Got you shook a fault line Come all and get tarnished got your pay roll garnished They form a Whisper like want trouble I the ice grills into rainwater puddles the proud-hearted leave on the humble Black in the hour Assemble my skill my power My poems crush into powder You like a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get power, your masks and capes snatched Brooklyn take what you take back I know a lot of hate that All I can say There's a city full of walls you can complaints at All the doubters and believers your receivers "I feel it," you can it through the speakers The three six original lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home
Tell them cats they to sit back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise Try to rush you scuff your shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten back Stay on Omegas Brooklyn patrol interstaters Take their license and their papers
My so passionate Make you peal out and mash shit Get cold crash your whip Front chassis wrecked, but ock you be too upset Tow truck got my tape in the I'm permanent tattoos and birth marks Third burn marks on tracks like Dale Earnheart Stay on the low like the earth Put a big on your earn chart Nice since the nurse signed my birth seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my name is a word From avenues to streets, and park places Stair wells, jail cells, to basements Arrangement basic, but still chase it Y2K can't delete the true war drum on the ranges Skill level Arrow head killed all the cavemen cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement And get violated like a I shit to play with I a Goddamn what your name is Delete it and it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, tell girl, tell your mother Conference call you crew and tell each 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 Brook-nahm The is on Put your on cruise In a rush you scuff 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 observe the speed law these gassed up clowns observe the speed law Make these gassed up 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 your whole shit up You cool out money It ain't that out here Look at these man, it's funny man He just got that car About to fuck your whole up Speed out here money riding cats 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, the, fuck off the road, money!