Mos Def - Speed Law(1999)

[00:00.08] (Watch it) Relax, pump the brakes, you're speeding, money
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[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
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[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!!
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