Relax, pump the speeding money You'll your whole shit up (slow down) Lights be fast on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the cats
Clear a megaphone Pretty nigga heart the metronome the Trump Tower to the terror dome Poor house to pleasure Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stepping your foundation into pebbles My words leave your nerves You take it to the next down like a circus clown Cats like you even get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My stage show stay live, make the sound man stage 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 all shine and get tarnished Brooklyn got pay roll garnished They a huddle like they want trouble I melt the ice into rainwater puddles Make the proud-hearted on the humble steel 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 what you can't back I a lot of cats hate that All I can say There's a city of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers your receivers "I feel it," you can taste it through the The three six original lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at your home video
Tell them they need to sit back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just and relax Take a breath, ten paces back on time Omegas Brooklyn patrol interstaters their license and their registration papers
My so passionate Make you peal out and mash your Get cold crash your whip Front 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 earth Put a big loss on your chart since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, your jams is barely heard Just my name is a daily From avenues to streets, terraces and places Stair wells, cells, penthouse to basements basic, but still fans chase it Y2K can't delete the ancient Apache war drum on the level dangerous Arrow that killed all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but on the pavement And get violated a plaintiff I shit to play with I give a Goddamn what name is Delete it and make it so it never get 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, hopefully off or you get bust off like a ovary
Tell them cats they need to back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put your on cruise In a rush you scuff brake shoes, just cool and relax a breath, take ten paces back Brook-nahm The heat is on, no or detour Make these gassed up jokers observe the law Make gassed up clowns observe the speed law Make these gassed up clowns the speed law they speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you chill money Lights be changing fast on these dude Smash your shit up You better cool out It ain't like that out Look at these cats man, it's man He probably got that car About to fuck your shit up Speed out here 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, the, fuck off the road, money!