Speed Law

Watch it!

Relax, pump your brakes

You're speeding, money

Watch it!

We'll smash your whole shit up

1,2

(Slow down) Lights be changing fast on these streets, money, slow down (Slow down)

Watch it!

(Slow down) Sleeping on the wrong cats (Slow down)

Clear like a megaphone

Pretty **** heart skipped the metronome

Rocket 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 you 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 shows stay live

Make the sound man stage dive

I cut fat cats to eight lives with my eight ball lines

I'm all for I'm done with all nine

I Got you shook like a fault line

Come all shine and get tarnished

Brooklyn got you 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

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 breathe

Take ten paces back

Stay on time like Omegas

Brooklyn patrol like interstaters

Take they 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 Oct 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 deadly 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 God damn 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 your wack crew and tell each other

That they just ain't holding me

I'm Mos Def, you 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 breathe

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

These gassed up clowns observe the speed law

These gassed up clowns observe the speed law

'Cause they speeding, speeding

Speeding, speeding, speeding

Speeding, speeding, speeding

Speeding, speeding, speeding

Speeding, speeding, speeding

Watch it!

Relax

Slow down

You better chill bro (Slow down)

Lights be changing fast on these streets dude (Slow down)

Watch it!

Smash your whole shit up (Slow down)

You better cool out money (Slow down)

It ain't like that out here (Slow down)

(Slow down) Look at these cats bro (Watch it!)

Slow down

It's funny man

(Slow down) He probably just got that car

Slow down

About to fuck your whole shit up (Slow down)

Watch it!

(Slow down) Speed laws out here money

Slow down

Slow down

Knight riding cats

Slow down

(Watch it!) In control like interstaters, state-ahs, state-ahs

State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs

Stay the fuck off the road, money