Speed Law
Mos Def

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


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