Slow down, don't rush   I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to say, ay   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 nonstop   What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop      Meditation, equality, it keeps me level headed, the mentality   Cool, calm, posignatic with suggestion   Never stressin', heat chambers never sweatin'   Honeys cryin', 'cause her man she caught cheatin'   Mothers eyein', sons cut down like bushes   Daddys sicker than the land lord, just evicted   Stressed to death, month to month until he kicked it   I seen ya hustlin' on the dark streets, the mental      Look what you been through, you just escaped reality   Now what ya into, is just a technicality   Check it, deep inside of my head like T.V.   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-Rastahood   'Cause I rob from the rich and I give to the good      Even though it's for the money B, I'm droppin' dollars 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      Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   (Afu)   What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   (Afu)   Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop   (Afu)   What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   (Afu)   What, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop   (Afu)   Yeah      Slow down, don't rush   I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to bust   They wanna cut my meditation with their crooked laws   Say I can't hold a bong and smoke my la   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 spliff will stay lit from sun up to sun down, ay 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, ay Afu   Slow down, don't rush      Stimulating, verses like blood working   Paper hits the pen like the needle to ya skin   Blow ya blood up, Xena, hero-in   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 leap on towers in Piza, peep the ether   Wrap it in a scroll, pass it off to Carmani   Lessons of exquisietness verses poetry      Afu, slow down, don't rush   I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to bust   They wanna cut my meditation with their crooked laws   Say I can't hold a bong 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 spliff will stay lit from sun up till sun down, ay 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, ay Afu   Slow down, don't rush      Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop   What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop      Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop   What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop   Yeah