Relax, pump the speeding money You'll smash whole shit up (slow down) Lights be changing on these streets money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the cats
Clear like a Pretty nigga heart skipped the Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror Poor to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, to baritone Mos Def one of the illest that you known steady baby, you a stepping stone Smash your foundation into My leave your nerves unsettled You it to the next level down like a circus clown Cats like you can't get a pound Worldwide the river to lakeside My stage show stay live, make the man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight lives my eight ball lines I'm home 'fore I'm with all nine Got you shook like a line all shine and get tarnished Brooklyn got pay roll garnished They form a Whisper they want trouble I melt the ice grills into puddles Make the proud-hearted on the humble Black in the hour Assemble my form my power My crush bones into powder You like a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak heroes! Get your power, masks and capes snatched Brooklyn what you can't take back I know a lot of cats hate 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 taste it the speakers The three six original lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme at your nearest home video
Tell cats they need to sit back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put your joint on Try to rush you scuff brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten back Stay on time patrol like interstaters Take their license and registration papers
My joint's so you peal out and mash your shit Get wild cold your whip Front wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset Tow got my tape in the deck I'm permanent like and birth marks Third degree marks Driving on tracks like Earnheart Stay on the low the earth spot Put a big on your earn chart Nice since the nurse signed my birth Seldom but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my is a daily word From avenues to streets, and park places wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but still chase it Y2K can't delete the true war drum on the ranges Skill level Arrow head killed all the cavemen cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement And get like a plaintiff I ain't to play with I give a Goddamn what your is Delete it and make it so it get repeated it Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your Conference you wack crew and tell each other That they just holding me I'm Mos Def, hopefully Mush off or you get bust off a ovary
Tell them they need to ease back and observe where they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your joint on In a rush you scuff your shoes, just cool and relax a breath, take ten paces back Brook-nahm The heat is on, no or detour Make these up jokers observe the speed law Make these gassed up clowns observe the law Make these up clowns 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 fast on these streets Smash whole shit up You better cool out It ain't that out here Look at these cats man, it's man He probably got that car to fuck your whole shit up Speed laws out here 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, the, fuck off the road, money!