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