Relax, the brakes speeding money You'll smash whole shit up (slow down) be changing fast on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the wrong
Clear like a Pretty nigga skipped the metronome Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror Poor house to pleasure Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest that you known Rock steady baby, you a stone Smash your foundation into My leave your nerves unsettled You take it to the next down Looking like a clown Cats like you can't even get a 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 ball I'm home 'fore I'm done all nine Got you like a fault line all shine and get tarnished Brooklyn got your pay garnished They form a Whisper like they want I melt the ice into rainwater puddles the proud-hearted leave on the humble Black in the hour Assemble my form my power My poems crush bones powder You mumble like a I'm Mos Def, you need to louder heroes! Get your power, your masks and snatched Brooklyn take you can't take back I a lot of cats hate that All I can say There's a city full of walls you can complaints at All the doubters and believers adjust receivers "I feel it," you can it through the speakers The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my books at your nearest home video
them cats they need to sit back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your on cruise Try to rush you your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten paces Stay on time Brooklyn patrol like Take their license and registration papers
My so passionate Make you peal out and mash your Get cold crash your whip Front chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too Tow truck got my tape in the I'm permanent tattoos and birth marks Third burn marks Driving on tracks like Dale Stay on the low like the earth Put a big on your earn chart since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, while jams is barely heard Just my name is a word From to streets, terraces and park places Stair wells, cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but fans chase it Y2K delete the true ancient Apache war drum on the Skill dangerous Arrow head that all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but on the pavement And get violated like a I ain't shit to with I give a Goddamn what your is Delete it and it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, your girl, tell your mother Conference call you wack crew and each other they just ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, your Mush off or you get bust off like a
Tell cats they need to ease back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just and relax a breath, take ten paces back Brook-nahm The is on, no off-ramp or detour Make these gassed up jokers observe the law Make gassed up clowns observe the speed law Make these gassed up clowns observe the law Cause speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you better chill Lights be changing fast on these streets your whole shit up You cool out money It ain't that out here at these cats man, it's funny man He probably just got car About to fuck your 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!