Relax, pump the brakes
You're speeding money
You'll smash your whole %#@! up (slow down)

Lights be changing fast on these streets money, slow down
(slow down) Sleeping on the wrong cats


Clear like a megaphone
Pretty ^!$$% heart skipped the metronome
Rocked the Trump Tower to the terrordome

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 HEREOS!
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 oh-riginal 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 Omegas
Brooklyn patrol like interstaters
Take their license and their registration papers


My joint's so passionate
Make you peal out and mash your %#@!

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 ba!@&(ts
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 %#@! to play with
I give a !@%& 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 %#@! 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 $#&@ your whole %#@! up
Speed laws out here money
Knight riding cats
In 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!!