Album Name

Black On Both Sides

Artist

Mos Def

Genre

랩/힙합

Release Date

1999.01.01

Release Agency

Universal Music Group

Speed Law - Mos Def
Relax pump the brakes
You're speeding money
You'll smash your whole
shit up slow down
Lights be changing fast
on these streets money slow down
slow down Sleeping
on the wrong cats
Clear like a megaphone
Pretty nigga heart
skipped the metronome
Rocked the Trump Tower
to the terrordome
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 HEREOS
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 oh-rigina
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 Omegas
Brooklyn patrol like interstaters
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 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
Stay the FUCK off the road money