Relax, the brakes You're money 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 Pretty nigga skipped the metronome Rocked the Tower to the terror dome Poor house to domes Soprano, alto, to baritone Mos Def one of the that you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stone Smash your foundation pebbles My words leave your nerves You take it to the next level Looking a circus clown Cats like you can't get a pound Worldwide from the to lakeside My stage show live, make the sound man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball I'm home 'fore I'm done with all Got you like a fault line all shine and get tarnished Brooklyn got your pay garnished form a huddle Whisper like they want I melt the ice into rainwater puddles Make the leave on the humble steel in the hour Assemble my form my power My poems crush into powder You mumble a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, your and capes snatched Brooklyn take what you can't back I know a lot of cats hate 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 taste it through the The three six original sketch lyrics so 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 Take a breath, ten paces back Stay on Omegas Brooklyn like interstaters Take their license and their papers
My so passionate Make you peal out and your shit Get wild cold crash your Front chassis wrecked, but ock you be too upset Tow got my tape in the deck I'm permanent like tattoos and birth Third burn marks Driving on like Dale Earnheart on the low like the earth spot Put a big on your earn chart Nice the nurse signed my birth chart seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my name is a daily From avenues to streets, terraces and places wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K delete the true ancient war drum on the ranges Skill level Arrow head that killed all the They cry John-Blazing, but on the pavement And get like a plaintiff I ain't shit to with I give a Goddamn your name is Delete it and make it so it get repeated it Tell the feds, tell your girl, your mother call you wack 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 cats need to ease back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your joint on In a you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten back Brook-nahm The is on, no off-ramp or detour these gassed up jokers observe the speed law Make these gassed up clowns observe the law Make these gassed up clowns the speed law Cause speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you better money Lights be changing fast on streets dude Smash your whole up You cool out money It like that out here at these cats man, it's funny man He probably just got car About to your whole shit up laws out here money Knight riding 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!