Mos Def - Speed Law Lyrics
[watch it]Relax, pump the brakesYoure speeding moneyYoull smash your whole shit up [slow down]Lights be changing fast on these streets money, slow down[slow down] sleeping on the wrong catsClear like a megaphonePretty nigga heart skipped the metronomeRocked the trump tower to the terrordomePoor house to pleasure domesSoprano, alto, tenor to baritoneMos def one of the illest that you ever knownRock steady baby, you a stepping stoneSmash your foundation into pebblesMy words leave your nerves unsettledYou take it to the next level downLooking like a circus clownCats like you cant even get a poundWorldwide from the river to lakesideMy stage show stay live, make the sound man stage diveI cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball linesIm home fore Im done with all nineGot you shook like a fault lineCome all shine and get tarnishedBrooklyn got your pay roll garnishedThey form a huddleWhisper like they want troubleI melt the ice grills into rainwater puddlesMake the proud-hearted leave on the humbleBlack steel in the hourAssemble my skill form my powerMy poems crush bones into powderYou mumble like a cowardIm mos def, you need to speak louderSuper hereos!Get your power, your masks and capes snatchedBrooklyn take what you cant take backI know a lot of cats hate thatAll I can say blackTheres a city full of walls you can post complaints atAll the doubters and believers adjust your receiversI feel it, you can taste it through the speakersThe three six oh-riginal sketch lyrics so visualThey rent my rhyme books at your nearest home videoTell them cats they need to sit back and observe where they atBrook-nahm vietnamThe heat is onPut your joint on cruiseTry to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relaxTake a breath, take ten paces backStay on time omegasBrooklyn patrol like interstatersTake their license and their registration papersMy joints so passionateMake you peal out and mash your shitGet wild cold crash your whipFront chassis wrecked, but ock you cant be too upsetTow truck got my tape in the deckIm permanent like tattoos and birth marksThird degree burn marksDriving on tracks like dale earnheartStay on the low like the earth spotPut a big loss on your earn chartNice since the nurse signed my birth chartSeldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heardJust my name is a daily word>from avenues to streets, terraces and park placesStair wells, jail cells, penthouse to basementsArrangement basic, but still fans chase itY2k cant delete the true ancientApache war drum on the rangesSkill level dangerousArrow head that killed all the cavemenThey cry john-blazing, but step on the pavementAnd get violated like a plaintiffI aint shit to play withI give a goddamn what your name isDelete it and make it so it never get repeatedBelieve itTell the feds, tell your girl, tell your motherConference call you wack crew and tell each otherThat they just aint holding meIm mos def, your hopefullyMush off or you get bust off like a ovaryTell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they atBrook-nahm vietnamThe heat is onPut your joint on cruiseIn a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relaxTake a breath, take ten paces backBrook-nahm vietnamThe heat is on, no off-ramp or detourMake these gassed up jokers observe the speed lawMake these gassed up clowns observe the speed lawMake these gassed up clowns observe the speed lawCause they speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin,Speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin,Speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedinRelaxSlow down, you better chill moneyLights be changing fast on these streets dudeSmash your whole shit upYou better cool out moneyIt aint like that out hereLook at these cats man, its funny manHe probably just got that carAbout to ***** your whole shit upSpeed laws out here moneyKnight riding catsIn control 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,Stay the.. ***** off the road, money!!
