Relax, pump the speeding money You'll your whole shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on these streets money, slow (slow down) Sleeping on the wrong
Clear like a Pretty nigga heart skipped the Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror Poor house to pleasure Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the illest you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stepping Smash your into pebbles My words leave your unsettled You take it to the next down like a circus clown Cats like you can't get a pound from the river to lakeside My stage show stay live, 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 shook like a line Come all and get tarnished Brooklyn got your pay garnished form a huddle Whisper like they want I melt the ice grills rainwater puddles the proud-hearted leave on the humble steel in the hour Assemble my form my power My poems crush bones powder You like a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, masks and capes snatched Brooklyn take what you take back I know a lot of cats that All I can say There's a city full of you can post complaints at All the doubters and adjust your receivers "I feel it," you can taste it the speakers The three six original sketch so visual They rent my rhyme books at nearest home video
Tell them they need to sit back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put joint on cruise Try to you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, ten paces back on time Omegas Brooklyn patrol interstaters Take their license and their registration
My so passionate Make you peal out and your shit Get wild crash your whip Front chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too Tow truck got my tape in the I'm like tattoos and birth marks Third burn marks Driving on tracks like Dale on the low like the earth spot Put a big loss on earn chart since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely Just my is a daily word From avenues to streets, and park places Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to Arrangement basic, but still chase it Y2K can't delete the ancient war drum on the ranges Skill dangerous Arrow head killed all the cavemen cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement And get like a plaintiff I ain't shit to play I give a what your name is Delete it and make it so it get repeated it Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your Conference call you wack and tell each other That they ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, hopefully off or you get bust off like a ovary
Tell them cats they need to ease and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your joint on In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just and relax Take a breath, take ten back Brook-nahm The heat is on, no or detour Make gassed up jokers observe the speed law Make these gassed up clowns the speed law Make these gassed up observe 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 on these streets dude Smash your shit up You cool out money It ain't like that out Look at cats man, it's funny man He just got that car About to fuck your shit up Speed laws out here 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!