Relax, pump the You're money You'll your whole shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on these money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the wrong
like a megaphone Pretty nigga skipped the metronome Rocked the Trump to the terror dome Poor house to pleasure Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest that you ever Rock baby, you a stepping stone Smash your into pebbles My leave your nerves unsettled You take it to the level down Looking like a clown like you can't even 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 eight ball I'm home I'm done with all nine Got you like a fault line Come all shine and get Brooklyn got pay roll garnished They a huddle like they want trouble I melt the ice grills into puddles the proud-hearted leave on the humble Black in the hour Assemble my skill my power My poems bones into powder You mumble a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to louder heroes! Get your power, your masks and capes take what you can't take back I know a lot of cats that All I can say There's a city full of walls you can post at All the doubters and believers your receivers "I feel it," you can taste it through the The six original sketch lyrics so visual rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video
Tell them cats need to sit back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put your joint on Try to you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax a breath, take ten paces back Stay on time patrol like interstaters Take license and their registration papers
My so passionate Make you peal out and mash shit Get wild cold crash whip chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset Tow got my tape in the deck I'm permanent tattoos and birth marks Third burn marks Driving on tracks Dale Earnheart Stay on the low like the spot Put a big loss on your earn since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, while jams is barely heard Just my name is a daily From avenues to streets, terraces and park Stair wells, jail cells, to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K can't delete the ancient war drum on the ranges Skill dangerous Arrow head killed all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but on the pavement And get violated a plaintiff I ain't to play with 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 they just ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, hopefully Mush off or you get off like a ovary
Tell them cats they to ease back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your on cruise In a you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten back Brook-nahm The heat is on, no off-ramp or Make these up jokers observe the speed law Make gassed up clowns observe 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 your whole up You better out money It like that out here Look at these cats man, funny man He probably got that car About to your whole shit up Speed out here money riding 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!