Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace, but I'm prepared to say, aye

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace, but I'm prepared, now I say

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

Meditation, equality

It keeps me level-headed, the mentality

Cool, calm, pose hypnotic with suggestion

Never stressin', heat chambers never sweatin'

Honey's cryin' 'cause her man, she caught cheatin'

Mothers eyein' sons cut down like bushes

Daddy's sicker then the landlord, just evicted

Stressed to death, month to month until he kicked it

I seen you hustlin' on the dark streets, the mental

Look what you been through, you just escaped reality

Now what you're into is just a technicality

Check it, deep inside of my head like TV

The lifestyle I live so crooked you won't believe me

Lessons learned that I could walk a tight rope

Even though I toke and choke, don't provoke

Uh, now you can call me Afu-Rasta-hood

'Cause I rob from the rich, and I give to the good

Even though it's for the money B, I'm droppin' knowledge, G

Straight shots in the head, peep the summary

Wake up in the mornin' got me yearnin' for food

Yeah, yeah what, huh, I'm that type a dude

Pledge allegiance, pay attention, payin' homage

So much time held in my hand, none for college

I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

What, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

Yeah

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace, but I'm prepared to bust

They want to cut my meditation with their crooked laws

Say I can't hold a vibe and smoke my la

But if it's war that they want, we already are registered

The king, it is he, who defends me

So when it's time for the showdown

We'll march in the soldiers, Babylon get throwed down

When the war is over we run up the whole town

And my spiff will stay lit from sun up to sun down, aye

Aye, Afu

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace, but I'm prepared to bust, Afu

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace, aye

Aye, Afu

Slow down, don't rush

Stimulating, verses like blood working

Paper hits then pen like the needle to your skin

Blow your blood up, Xena, heroin

More contagious than sex, nobody flex

Dangerous minds, little kids throw gang signs

Treacherous times, too many can't press rewind

Stress the elevation, wrap my thoughts like a mummy

It's funny, how sometimes some smart one's a dummy

Scorin' a million, forget the S.A.T.

Now I lean more towers than Pisa, peep the ether

Wrap it in a scroll, pass it off to Carmani

Lessons of exquisiteness verses poetry

Aye, Afu

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace, but I'm prepared to bust

They want to cut my meditation with their crooked laws

Say I can't hold a vibe and smoke my la

But if it's war that they want, we already are registered

The king, it is he, who defends me

So when it's time for the showdown

We'll march in the soldiers, Babylon get throwed down

When the war is over we run up the whole town

And my spiff will stay lit from sun up to sun down, aye

Aye, Afu

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to say, aye

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace, aye

Aye, Afu

Slow down, don't rush

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah