[Chorus]
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People, get ready for the heartbeat props
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(Heartbeat props!)
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Everybody, get ready for the heartbeat props
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(Heartbeat props!)
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We're gonna make it funky with the heartbeat props, y'all
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(Heartbeat props!)
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It's time to get busy with the heartbeat props
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(We're giving heartbeat props)
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I give my man props cause he's living
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(Why wait until the heartbeat stops)
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Check it out, y'all, proper respect is what we're giving
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(We're giving heartbeat props)
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Uh, I give my man props cause he's living
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(Why wait until the heartbeat stops)
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Don't you know that proper respect is what we're giving
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(We're giving heartbeats props)
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[Shock G]
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Seems like you wondered each day if the Underground
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Is going to stay down with the funky beats
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Even if you know that I'm a junkie for a bump that's funky
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And a fool for the loop, see, a groupie for the old one-twoiee
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A bass freak would say ¡°Oohwee,
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Peace to DU cause I like the way you do me¡±
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I love to go on about the funk, matter of fact
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I'd love to be another funk front runner
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But first we gotta deal with the fronters
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So I can't go on, it's time to drop a few bombs
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(Get busy, G, go on and take ¡®em to school)
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Yeah, it's time spread the jewels
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I ask you about Malcolm and you tell me that he's wicked
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Farrakhan comes you can't seem to buy a ticket
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And check what my man has to say
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Right or wrong, don't you think that he deserves a play?
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Cause he's living for you and you and you and you
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The brother X tried but he died trying to get through
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So why wait until the heartbeat stops
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Yo, go on and give my man his props
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If you're really that down then act what you say
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KRS and Chuck need support today
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I see you posing with the Dr King hanging on your wall
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Only difference is Chuck might give you that call
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To march on Friday, yeah, it's kind of frightening
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Let me move so I don't get hit by the bolt of lightning
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Striking you down cause you're fronting
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A dead leader can't tax your mind
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Therefore he's not a threat to your personal time
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All the lagging and the dragging
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(Yo, I got something to do that day)
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Yeah, you sound like an old bitch nagging
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Fuck that fronting! We're pumping up the brothers
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Cause the brothers keep it pumping
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You got it all wrong
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When you wait for the TV to tell you what's going on
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I thought you're hype on the mic
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Yeah, they never get it right
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That's why you see we gotta thank God, y'all
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For niggas like Ice Cube
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Cause they'll tell the record straight
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(Yo, my man's a prophet too)
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Yo, god, you think he ain't?
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So do the right thing, it's not a black or a white thing
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We're here to let you know it's just a human being thing
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We're pulling out all stops
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Cause it's time give heartbeat props
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[Chorus]
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[Big Money Odi$]
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I'm the type of guy that's sly like a fox
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An honor roll student in the school of hard knocks
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There was different type of brother that I used to look up to
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But I'm still giving props where the props are due
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But let me start with a fool I don't give a fuck about
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I wanted to give a Fuck You out
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To the nigga who went out on a whim
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He was a roody-poo for shooting Huey Newton
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But I'm thanking God for niggas like Iceberg Slim
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And the chick the honky's ran to see
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She was the honky-tonk's fantasy
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Tina Turner, the living legacy
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And she's still got you tripping off the legs you see
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Another chick they used to beg to see
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Was Josephine Baker, she had them hooked
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They loved the way she shook her money-maker
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But why did it take them so many decades
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To give a little praise to who they ran rave to see
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[PeeWee]
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With a dark complexion she was sex symbol befo' Marilyn Monroe
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But her heart stopped before they gave props to the old pro
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[Big Money Odi$]
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It took a great man to mould those
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So I want to give props to my pops because he told those
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But there's a time to break necks and throw bolos
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Be a cold bro and throw low blows
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When you want to close the shows of your foes
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Cause foes are those that you got to break like windows
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Check it, when respect goes it's time to break a nose
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But give respect before the soul goes |