Relax, the brakes You're speeding You'll your whole shit up (slow down) Lights be changing fast on streets money, slow down (slow down) on the wrong cats
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Tell them they need to sit back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put joint on cruise Try to rush you scuff brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten back on time Omegas Brooklyn like interstaters their license and their registration papers
My joint's so Make you peal out and mash shit Get cold crash your whip Front wrecked, but ock you can't be too upset Tow got my tape in the deck I'm permanent like tattoos and birth Third degree marks Driving on like Dale Earnheart Stay on the low like the earth Put a big loss on your chart Nice since the nurse signed my chart Seldom seen but often heard, while jams is barely heard my name is a daily word From avenues to streets, terraces and park Stair wells, jail cells, penthouse to Arrangement basic, but fans chase it Y2K can't delete the ancient Apache war drum on the Skill dangerous Arrow head killed all the cavemen They cry John-Blazing, but on the pavement And get violated like a I ain't shit to with I give a Goddamn what your is Delete it and make it so it get repeated it Tell the feds, tell your girl, your mother Conference call you crew and tell each other That just ain't holding me I'm Mos Def, your Mush off or you get bust off a ovary
Tell them cats they to ease back and observe where they at Vietnam The is on Put your joint on In a rush you your brake shoes, just cool and relax Take a breath, take ten paces Vietnam The heat is on, no off-ramp or Make these gassed up observe the speed law Make these gassed up clowns observe the law Make these gassed up clowns observe the law Cause speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Speeding, speeding, speeding, speeding, Slow down, you better chill Lights be changing fast on these streets Smash your shit up You better out money It like that out here Look at these cats man, it's man He probably just got car About to fuck your whole up Speed laws out money Knight riding In like interstaters, state-ahs, state-ahs, State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, State-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, state-ahs, the, fuck off the road, money!