Relax, pump the You're money You'll smash your whole up (slow down) be changing fast on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the cats
like a megaphone Pretty heart skipped the metronome the Trump Tower to the terror 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 your nerves unsettled You it to the next level down Looking like a clown Cats like you even get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My stage stay live, make the sound man stage dive I cut fat cats to lives with my eight ball lines I'm home I'm done with all nine Got you like a fault line Come all shine and get Brooklyn got your pay garnished form a huddle Whisper they want trouble I melt the ice grills rainwater puddles Make the proud-hearted on the humble Black steel in the Assemble my skill my power My poems crush bones powder You mumble like a I'm Mos Def, you to speak louder heroes! Get power, your masks and capes snatched Brooklyn what you can't take back I a lot of cats hate that All I can say a city full of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers adjust your "I feel it," you can taste it the speakers The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home
Tell them cats they need to sit and observe where 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, take ten paces Stay on Omegas Brooklyn patrol like Take license and their registration papers
My so passionate Make you out and mash your shit Get cold crash your whip Front wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset Tow truck got my in the deck I'm like tattoos and birth marks Third burn marks Driving on tracks like Earnheart Stay on the low like the earth Put a big on your earn chart Nice since the nurse my birth chart seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my name is a word From avenues to streets, terraces and places Stair wells, cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K can't the true ancient Apache war drum on the Skill dangerous Arrow head that all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but step on the And get violated a plaintiff I ain't shit to play I give a Goddamn what name is it and make it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, tell girl, tell your mother Conference call you crew and tell each other That just ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, your Mush off or you get bust off a ovary
Tell them they need to ease back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put your joint on In a rush you your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten back Brook-nahm The heat is on, no or detour Make these gassed up jokers the speed law Make these 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 your whole shit up You cool out money It ain't that out here Look at these cats man, funny man He just got that car About to your whole shit up laws out here money Knight 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, Stay the, off the road, money!