Relax, the brakes speeding money You'll smash whole shit up (slow down) Lights be fast on these streets money, slow down (slow down) on the wrong cats
Clear like a Pretty nigga heart the metronome Rocked the Tower to the terror dome Poor house to domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the that you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stone Smash foundation into pebbles My words your nerves unsettled You take it to the next down like a circus clown Cats you can't even get a pound from the river to lakeside My stage show stay live, make the sound man dive I cut fat cats to eight with my eight ball lines I'm home I'm done with all nine Got you like a fault line Come all and get tarnished Brooklyn got your pay roll form a huddle Whisper they want trouble I melt the ice grills rainwater puddles Make the proud-hearted on the humble Black in the hour Assemble my form my power My poems bones into powder You like a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, your and capes snatched Brooklyn take 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 complaints at All the doubters and believers adjust receivers "I feel it," you can it through the speakers The three six sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at your nearest video
Tell them they need to sit back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your joint on Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, cool and relax Take a breath, ten paces back Stay on time Brooklyn patrol like Take their and their registration papers
My joint's so Make you peal out and mash shit Get wild cold crash whip chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset Tow truck got my tape in the I'm permanent like tattoos and marks Third degree marks on tracks like Dale Earnheart Stay on the low like the spot Put a big loss on your earn Nice the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my is a daily word From to streets, terraces and park places Stair wells, cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but fans chase it Y2K can't the true ancient Apache war on the ranges Skill dangerous Arrow head that all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but step on the And get like a plaintiff I ain't shit to with I give a Goddamn what your is it and make it so it never get repeated it Tell the feds, your girl, tell your mother Conference call you wack and tell each other That just ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, your Mush off or you get bust off like a
Tell them cats they need to ease and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put your joint on In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and Take a breath, ten paces back Vietnam The heat is on, no or detour these gassed up jokers observe the speed law Make gassed up clowns observe the speed law Make these gassed up observe the speed law they speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you better money be changing fast on these streets dude Smash your whole up You better out money It like that out here Look at cats man, it's funny man He just got that car About to your whole shit up Speed laws out money Knight 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!