Apache war drum on the ranges
You mumble like a coward
Make these gassed up clowns observe the speed law
Take their license and their registration papers
Arrangement basic
All the doubters and believers
Get your power, your masks and capes snatched
Put your joint on cruise
Sleeping on the wrong cats
Black steel in the hour
But ock you can't be too upset
I melt the ice grills into rainwater puddles
Get wild cold crash your whip
It's funny man
The heat is on, no off-ramp or detour
I'm permanent like tattoos and birth marks
You'll smash your whole shit up
Lights be changing fast on these streets dude
Come all shine and get tarnished
Assemble my skill form my power
Soprano, alto, tenor to baritone
All I can say black
My stage show stay live
Poor house to pleasure domes
Front chassis wrecked
Smash your foundation into pebbles
Mush off or you get bust off like a ovary
Got you shook like a fault line
Third degree burn marks
The heat is on
There's a city full of walls
From avenues to streets, terraces and park places
Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'
Put a big loss on your earn chart
Rocked the trump tower to the terror dome
Try to rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
My joint's so passionate
Take a breath, take ten paces back
Tow truck got my tape in the deck
About to fuck your whole shit up
They rent my rhyme books
Rock steady baby, you a stepping stone
Knight riding cats
Make you peal out and mash your shit
You better cool out money
Tell them cats they need to sit back and observe where they at
I give a goddamn what your name is
Arrow head that killed all the cavemen
Seldom seen but often heard
Make the sound man stage dive
It ain't like that out here
Stay on the low like the earth spot
Slow down, you better chill money
Brooklyn take what you can't take back
I'm Mos Def, you need to speak louder
I'm home 'fore I'm done with all nine
Nice since the nurse signed my birth chart
Take a breath, take ten paces back
Stair wells, jail cells
Watch it
At your nearest home video
Skill level dangerous
Cats like you can't even get a pound
The heat is on
Put your joint on cruise
Y2K can't delete the true ancient
Pretty nigga heart skipped the metronome
Stay on time like Omegas
Speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'
The three six original sketch lyrics so visual
I'm Mos Def, your hopefully
Super heroes
With my eight ball lines
Tell the feds, tell your girl, tell your mother
But step on the pavement
They form a huddle
Mos Def one of the illest that you ever known
You're speeding money
Watch it
You take it to the next level down
State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs
Speed laws out here money
Brook-nahm Vietnam
Looking like a circus clown
I cut fat cats to eight lives
Smash your whole shit up
Driving on tracks like Dale Earnheart
Clear like a megaphone
Worldwide from the river to lakeside
You can post complaints at
Brook-nahm Vietnam
Whisper like they want trouble
He probably just got that car
Lights be changing fast on these streets money, slow down
Brooklyn patrol like interstates
Delete it and make it so it never get repeated
Just my name is a daily word
Make the proud hearted leave on the humble
While your jams is barely heard
I ain't shit to play with
Stay the
State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs
Look at these cats man
Believe it
Relax
'Cause they speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin', speedin'
In control like interstates, state-ahs, state-ahs
They cry John Blazing
My words leave your nerves unsettled
I feel it, you can taste it through the speakers
Brooklyn got your pay roll garnished
Tell them cats they need to ease back and observe where they at
Adjust your receivers
But still fans chase it
Make these gassed up jokers observe the speed law
Brook-nahm Vietnam
Penthouse to basements
I know a lot of cats hate that
In a rush you scuff your brake shoes, just cool and relax
My poems crush bones into powder
Crew and tell each other
That they just ain't holding me
And get violated like a plaintiff
Conference call you wack
Make these gassed up clowns observe the speed law
