[00:00.00](Bridge  1)
[00:18.45]Slow  down, don't rush
[00:26.07]I'm here to keep  the peace  but
[00:33.03]I'm prepared to  say, ay
[00:44.01]Slow down, don't rush
[00:46.44]I'm here to keep the peace but
[00:47.64]I'm prepared, now
[00:48.39]I  say (Chorus -Afu- ra)
[00:54.36]Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop
[00:56.94]Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop
[00:59.46]What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop
[01:02.31]Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop (Afu-ra)
[01:05.31]Meditation, equality, it keeps me level headed, the men -tal-ity
[01:10.59]Cool, calm, posignatic with suggestion
[01:13.47]Never stressin, heat chambers never sweatin
[01:16.08]Honeys cryin, 'cause her man she caught cheatin
[01:18.84]Mothers eyein, sons cut down like bushes
[01:21.60]Daddys sicker than the land lord, just evicted
[01:24.36]Stressed to death, month by month until he kicked it
[01:26.88]I seen ya hustlin on the dark streets, the mental
[01:29.58]Look what you been through, you just escaped reality
[01:32.19]Now what ya  into, is just a technicality
[01:34.68]Check it, deep inside of my head like
[01:37.11]T.V. The lifestyle
[01:38.40]I live so crooked you won't believe me
[01:40.44]Lessons learned  that
[01:41.58]I could walk a tight rope
[01:43.14]Even though
[01:43.80]I toke and choke, don't provoke
[01:45.63]Uh, now you can call me
[01:46.95]Afu-rastahood '
[01:48.24]Cause I rob from the rich and
[01:49.89]I give to the good
[01:51.00]Even though it's for the money
[01:52.38]B, I'm droppin dollars
[01:53.76]G  Straight shots in the head, peep the summary
[01:56.64]Wake up in the mornin got me yearnin for food
[01:59.01]Yeah, yeah  what, huh,
[02:00.72]I'm that type a dude
[02:01.83]Pledge allegiance, pay attention, payin homage
[02:04.62]So much time held in my hand, none for college (college) (Chorus)
[02:18.39]Hey Afu, hey
[02:18.84]Afu, hey Afu, hey
[02:19.32]Afu (Bridge 2)
[02:21.12]Slow down, don't rush,
[02:23.52]I'm here to keep the peace but
[02:24.75]I'm prepared to bust
[02:25.92]They wanna cut my meditation with their crooked laws
[02:28.83]Say I can't hold a bong  and smoke my la
[02:31.50]If it's war that they want we already  are registered
[02:34.44]The king, it is he, who defends me
[02:36.24]So when it's time for the showdown
[02:38.31]We'll march in the soldiers
[02:39.54]Babylon, get throwed down
[02:41.16]When the war is over we run up the whole town
[02:43.62]And my spliff will stay lit from sun up to sun down
[02:47.19]Ay, Afu (Bridge  1) (Afu- ra)
[03:03.63]Stimulating, verses like blood working
[03:06.72]Paper hits the pen like the needle to ya skin
[03:09.45]Blow ya blood up,
[03:10.53]Xena, hero-in
[03:11.85]More contagious than **** (****), nobody flex
[03:14.88]Dangerous minds, little kids throw gang signs
[03:17.55]Treacherous times, too many can't press rewind
[03:19.95]Stress the elevation, wrap my thoughts like a mummy
[03:22.89]It's funny, how sometimes some smart one's a dummy
[03:25.41]Scorin a million, forget the
[03:27.42]S.A.T. Now
[03:28.38]I  leap on towers in
[03:29.61]Piza, peep the ether
[03:31.05]Wrap it in a scroll, pass it off to
[03:33.00]Carmani Lessons of exquisietness verses poetry (Bridge  1) (Chorus)