Relax, pump the You're speeding You'll smash your shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on these money, slow down (slow down) Sleeping on the cats
Clear a megaphone Pretty nigga heart skipped the the Trump Tower to the terror dome Poor to pleasure domes Soprano, alto, tenor to Mos Def one of the that you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stone Smash your foundation into My words your nerves unsettled You take it to the next level like a circus clown Cats like you can't even get a Worldwide from the river to My show stay live, make the sound man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball I'm 'fore I'm done with all nine Got you shook like a fault Come all shine and get Brooklyn got your pay garnished They a huddle Whisper they want trouble I melt the ice grills rainwater puddles Make the leave on the humble Black steel in the Assemble my skill form my My poems crush into powder You mumble a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to louder heroes! Get your power, your masks and capes Brooklyn what you can't take back I know a lot of hate that All I can say There's a full of walls you can post complaints at All the and believers adjust your receivers "I it," you can taste it through the speakers The six original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my books at your nearest home video
Tell them cats they need to sit back and observe they at Brook-nahm The is on Put your joint on Try to you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax a breath, take ten paces back Stay on Omegas Brooklyn like interstaters Take their and their registration papers
My joint's so Make you peal out and your shit Get cold crash your whip Front chassis wrecked, but ock you be too upset Tow truck got my tape in the I'm permanent like and birth marks Third degree marks on tracks like Dale Earnheart Stay on the low like the spot Put a big loss on earn chart Nice since the signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, your jams is barely heard Just my name is a daily From avenues to streets, and park places Stair wells, jail cells, to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans it Y2K can't delete the true Apache war drum on the level dangerous Arrow that killed all the cavemen cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement And get like a plaintiff I ain't shit to with I give a Goddamn what name is Delete it and make it so it never get it Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell mother Conference call you wack crew and tell each That they just ain't me I'm Mos Def, hopefully off or you get bust off like a ovary
Tell them cats they need to ease back and where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just and relax Take a breath, ten paces back Vietnam The heat is on, no off-ramp or Make these gassed up jokers the speed law Make these gassed up clowns observe the law these gassed 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 be changing fast on these streets dude Smash your shit up You better out money It ain't like that out at these cats man, it's funny man He probably got that car to fuck your whole shit up Speed out here money Knight riding 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!