Mos Def - Speed Law

[00:00.08] (Watch it) Relax, pump the brakes, you're speeding, money [00:07.99] [00:10.71] You'll smash your whole shit up (slow down) [00:16.64] Lights be changing fast on these streets, money, slow down [00:21.22] (Slow down) Sleeping on the wrong cats [00:25.71] Clear like a megaphone [00:26.96] Pretty nigga heart skipped the metronome [00:28.86] Rocked the Trump Tower to the terrordome [00:30.65] Poor house to pleasure domes [00:31.81] Soprano, alto, tenor to baritone [00:33.68] MOS DEF one of the illest that you ever known [00:35.52] Rock steady baby, you a stepping stone [00:37.39] Smash your foundation into pebbles [00:39.03] My words leave your nerves unsettled [00:40.92] You take it to the next level down [00:42.67] Looking like a circus clown [00:43.79] Cats like you can't even get a pound [00:45.60] Worldwide from the river to lakeside [00:47.61] My stage show stay live, make the sound man stage dive [00:50.72] I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball lines [00:53.82] I'm home 'fore I'm done with all nine [00:55.40] Got you slike a fault line [00:57.09] Come all shine and get tarnished [00:58.86] Brooklyn got your pay roll garnished [01:00.46] They form a huddle [01:01.54] Whisper like they want trouble [01:03.01] I melt the ice grills into rainwater puddles [01:05.27] Make the proud-hearted leave on the humble [01:07.01] Black steel in the hour [01:08.43] Assemble my skill form my power [01:10.35] My poems crush bones into powder [01:12.14] You mumble like a coward [01:13.41] I'm Mos Def, you need to speak louder [01:15.05] SUPER HEREOS! [01:15.68] Get your power, your masks and capes snatched [01:17.44] Brooklyn take what you can't take back [01:19.26] I know a lot of cats hate that [01:21.15] All I can say black [01:22.39] There's a city full of walls you can post complaints at [01:24.82] All the doubters and believers adjust your receivers [01:27.46] "I feel it," you can taste it through the speakers [01:29.37] The three six oh-riginal sketch lyrics so visual [01:32.35] They rent my rhyme books at your nearest home video [01:34.56] Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at [01:38.30] Brook-nahm Vietnam [01:39.67] The heat is on [01:40.73] Put your joint on cruise [01:41.90] Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax [01:45.67] Take a breath, take ten paces back [01:48.25] Stay on time Omegas [01:50.12] Brooklyn patrol like interstaters [01:51.80] Take their license and their registration papers [01:53.45] My joint's so passionate [01:54.71] Make you peal out and mash your shit [01:56.67] Get wild cold crash your whip [01:58.51] Front chassis wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset [02:01.56] Tow truck got my tape in the deck [02:03.38] I'm permanent like tattoos and birth marks [02:05.59] Third degree burn marks [02:06.77] Driving on tracks like Dale Earnheardt [02:08.50] Stay on the low like the herb spot [02:10.43] Put a big loss on your earn chart [02:12.21] Nice since the nurse signed my birth chart [02:13.92] Seldom seen but often heard, while your jams is barely heard [02:16.88] Just my name is a daily word [02:18.50] From avenues to streets, terraces and park places [02:21.35] Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to basements [02:23.85] Arrangement basic, but still fans chase it [02:27.15] Y2K can't delete the true ancient [02:28.65] Apache war drum on the ranges [02:30.68] Skill level dangerous [02:31.83] Arrow head that killed all the cavemen [02:33.52] They cry John-Blazing, but step on the pavement [02:36.03] And get violated like a plaintiff [02:37.88] I ain't shit to play with [02:39.03] I give a Goddamn what your name is [02:40.91] Delete it and make it so it never get repeated [02:43.22] Believe it [02:43.83] Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your mother [02:45.68] Conference call you wack crew and tell each other [02:48.07] That they just ain't holding me [02:49.55] I'm Mos Def, you hopefully [02:50.59] Mush on before you get bust off like a ovary [02:52.93] Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at [02:56.77] Brook-nahm Vietnam [02:58.06] The heat is on [02:59.05] Put your joint on cruise [03:00.23] Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax [03:03.95] Take a breath, take ten paces back [03:05.84] Brook-nahm Vietnam [03:07.80] The heat is on, no off-ramp or detour [03:10.16] Make these gassed up jokers observe the speed law [03:12.47] Make these gassed up clowns observe the speed law [03:14.91] Make these gassed up clowns observe the speed law [03:17.48] Cause they speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin [03:20.75] Speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin [03:23.81] Speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin, speedin [03:26.83] Relax [03:29.61] Slow down, you better chill, money [03:33.67] Lights be changing fast on these streets dude [03:36.59] Smash your whole shit up [03:38.69] You better cool out, money [03:41.09] It ain't like that out here [03:44.42] Look at these cats man, it's funny man [03:48.33] He probably just got that car [03:52.78] About to fuck your whole shit up [03:56.55] Speed laws out here, money [03:59.81] [04:02.74] Knight riding cats [04:05.20] In control like interstaters, state-ahs, state-ahs [04:06.69] State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs [04:09.72] State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs [04:14.48] Stay the. FUCK off the road, money!! [04:15.89]