Watch it   Relax, pump the brakes   You're speeding money   Watch it   You'll smash your whole shit up   Lights be changing fast on these streets money, slow down   Watch it   Sleeping on the wrong cats      Clear like a megaphone   Pretty nigga heart skipped the metronome   Rocked the trump tower to the terror dome   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   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   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 like a fault line   Come all shine and get tarnished   Brooklyn got your pay roll 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   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   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, 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 sit back and observe where they at   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   Stay on time like Omegas   Brooklyn patrol like interstates   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 birth marks   Third degree burn marks   Driving on tracks like Dale Earnheart   Stay on the low like the earth 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 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 can't delete the true ancient   Apache war drum on the ranges   Skill level dangerous   Arrow head that killed all the cavemen      They cry John Blazing   But step on the pavement   And get violated like a plaintiff   I ain't shit to play with   I give a goddamn 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 and tell each other   That they just ain't holding me   I'm Mos Def, your hopefully   Mush off or you get bust off like a ovary      Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at   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   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 observe the speed law   'Cause they speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'   Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'   Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'      Relax   Slow down, you better chill money   Lights be changing fast on these streets dude   Smash your whole shit up   You better cool out money   It ain't like that out here      Look at these cats man   It's funny man   He probably just got that car   About to fuck your whole shit up   Speed laws out here money      Knight riding cats   In control like interstates, 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   Fuck off the road, money