Speed Law

(Watch it) relax, pump the brakes, you're speedin', money (Watch it) you'll smash your whole shit up Man, chill (slow down) Lights be changing fast on these streets, money, slow down (slow down) (Watch it) (slow down) Sleeping on the wrong cats (slow down) Clear like a megaphone Pretty nigga heart skipped the metronome Rocked the Trump Tower to the terror dome (watch it) Poor house to pleasure domes, soprano, alto, tenor to baritone Mos Def, one of the illest that you ever known Rock steady baby, you a stepping stone Smash your foundation into pebbles My words leave your nerves unsettled (watch it) You take it to the next level down, looking like a circus clown Cats like you can't even get a pound Worldwide from the river to lakeside My stage show stay live (watch it), make the sound man stage dive I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight-ball lines I'm home 'fore I'm done with all nine Got you shook a fault line Come all shine and get tarnished (watch it) Brooklyn got your payroll garnished They form a huddle, whisper like they want trouble I melt the ice grills into rainwater puddles Make the proud-hearted leave on the humble Black Steel in the hour (watch it) Assemble my skill form my power My poems crush bones into powder You mumble like a coward I'm Mos Def, you need to speak louder (Super Heroes) Get your power, your masks and capes snatched Brooklyn take what you can't take back (watch it) I know a lot of cats hate that, all I can say black There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at All the doubters and believers adjust your receivers "I feel it," (watch it) you can taste it through the speakers The three six, original sketch lyrics so visual They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at (watch it) Brook-nahm Vietnam The heat is on, put your joint on cruise Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten paces back (watch it) Stay on time like Omegas Brooklyn patrol like interstaters Take their license and their registration papers My joint's so passionate Make you peal out and mash your shit Get wild cold crash your whip Front chassis wrecked, but 'ock you can't be too upset Tow truck got my tape in the deck I'm permanent like tattoos and birthmarks Third-degree burn marks Driving on tracks (watch it) like Dale Earnheardt Stay on the low like the herb spot Put a big loss on your earn chart Nice since the nurse signed my birth chart Seldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard Just my name (watch it) is a daily word From avenues to streets, terraces and park places Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements Arrangement basic, but still fans chase it Y2K (watch it) can't delete the true ancient Apache war drum on the ranges, skill level dangerous Arrowhead that killed all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement And get violated (watch it) like a plaintiff I ain't shit to play with I give a God damn what your name is Delete it and make it so it never get repeated, believe it Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your mother Conference call you wack crew (watch it) and tell each other That they just ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, you hopefully Mush on before you get bust off like a ovary Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at (watch it) Brook-nahm Vietnam The heat is on Put your joint on cruise In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten paces back (watch it) Brook-nahm Vietnam The heat is on, no off-ramp or detour Make these gassed-up jokers observe the speed law Make these gassed-up clowns observe the speed law Make these gassed-up clowns (watch it) observe the speed law 'Cause they speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin' Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin' Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin' (watch it) Relax (woo) Slow down, you better chill, money (slow down) Lights be changing fast (slow down) on these streets dude (watch it) Smash your whole shit up (slow down) You better cool out, money (slow down) It ain't like that out here (slow down) (Slow down) look at these cats man (watch it), it's funny man (Slow down) he probably just got that car (slow down) About to fuck your whole shit up (slow down) (watch it) (Slow down) speed laws out here, money (slow down) (Slow down) Knight riding cats (slow down) (watch it) In control like interstaters, staters, staters Staters, staters, staters, staters, staters Staters, staters, staters, staters, staters Stay the fuck off the road, money!!