Relax, the brakes You're money smash your whole shit up (slow down) Lights be changing on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the cats
like a megaphone Pretty nigga skipped the metronome Rocked the Trump to the terror dome house to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest you ever known steady baby, you a stepping stone Smash foundation into pebbles My words leave nerves unsettled You take it to the level down Looking like a clown like you can't even get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My show stay live, make the sound man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight lines I'm home 'fore I'm done with all Got you like a fault line Come all and get tarnished Brooklyn got your pay garnished form a huddle Whisper like want trouble I the ice grills into rainwater puddles Make the proud-hearted leave on the Black in the hour Assemble my skill my power My poems bones into powder You like a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to louder heroes! Get your power, your masks and capes Brooklyn take what you can't take I know a lot of cats that All I can say a city full of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and adjust your receivers "I feel it," you can it through the speakers The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at your nearest video
Tell them cats they need to sit back and where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your on cruise Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just and relax a breath, take ten paces back Stay on time Brooklyn patrol interstaters Take their license and their registration
My so passionate Make you peal out and your shit Get wild cold your whip Front chassis wrecked, but ock you be too upset Tow got my tape in the deck I'm permanent like tattoos and marks degree burn marks Driving on tracks like Dale Stay on the low like the spot Put a big loss on earn chart Nice since the nurse signed my birth Seldom seen but heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my name is a daily From avenues to streets, terraces and park Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to Arrangement basic, but still chase it Y2K can't delete the ancient Apache war on the ranges Skill level Arrow head that killed all the They cry John-Blazing, but step on the And get violated a plaintiff I ain't shit to play I give a what your name is Delete it and make it so it never get it Tell the feds, tell your girl, your mother Conference call you wack crew and each other That they just ain't me I'm Mos Def, hopefully off or you get bust off like a ovary
Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just and relax Take a breath, take ten back Brook-nahm The heat is on, no or detour these gassed up jokers observe the speed law Make these 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 better chill be changing fast on these streets dude Smash 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 Speed laws out here Knight riding 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!