Relax, the brakes speeding money You'll smash your shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on streets money, slow down (slow down) on the wrong cats
Clear like a Pretty nigga skipped the metronome Rocked the Trump Tower to the dome Poor to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest that you ever Rock steady baby, you a stone Smash your foundation pebbles My words leave nerves unsettled You take it to the next level like a circus clown Cats you can't even get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My stage show stay live, make the man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight with my eight ball lines I'm 'fore I'm done with all nine Got you shook like a fault Come all and get tarnished Brooklyn got pay roll garnished They form a Whisper like they want I melt the ice into rainwater puddles Make the proud-hearted leave on the Black in the hour my skill form my power My poems crush into powder You mumble like a I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, your masks and snatched Brooklyn take what you can't back I know a lot of hate that All I can say a city full of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers your receivers "I it," you can taste it through the speakers The three six original sketch so visual They rent my rhyme books at your home video
Tell them cats they need to sit back and observe they at Vietnam The is on Put your on cruise Try to you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten paces Stay on time Brooklyn like interstaters Take their license and registration papers
My joint's so Make you peal out and mash shit Get wild cold 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 birth Third burn marks Driving on tracks like Dale Stay on the low like the spot Put a big loss on your chart since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom but often heard, while your jams is barely heard my name is a daily word From avenues to streets, terraces and park wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K can't delete the true Apache war drum on the level dangerous Arrow head killed all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but on the pavement And get like a plaintiff I ain't shit to with I a Goddamn what your name is Delete it and make it so it 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 back and observe where at Brook-nahm The is on Put your on cruise In a rush you your brake shoes, just cool and relax a breath, take ten paces back Brook-nahm The is on, no off-ramp or detour Make these gassed up jokers the speed law these 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 chill be changing fast on these streets dude Smash your shit up You better out money It ain't like that out Look at these cats man, funny man He just got that car to fuck your whole shit up Speed out here money riding cats 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!