Speed Law Lyrics - Black On Both Sides - 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 terror dome 

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 heroes! 

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 original 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