[Bridge: Ky-Mani Marley]

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to say, ay

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared, now I say

[Chorus: Afu-Ra]

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

What? I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop

[Verse 1: Afu-Ra]

Meditation, equality

It keeps me level headed, the mentality

Cool, calm, post-hypnotic with suggestion

Never stressin', heat chamber's never sweatin'

Honeys cryin' 'cause her man she caught cheatin'

Mothers eyein', sons cut down like bushes

Daddy's sicker than the landlord, just evicted

Stressed to death, month by month until he kicked it

I seen ya hustlin' on the dark streets, the mental

Look what you been through, you just escaped reality

Now what you into is just a technicality

Check it, deep inside of my head like TV

The lifestyle I live so crooked you won't believe me

Lessons learned that I could walk a tight rope

Even though I toke and choke, don't provoke

Uh, now you can call me Afu-rastahood

'Cause I rob from the rich and I give to the good

Even though it's for the money, B, I'm droppin' knowledge, G

Straight shots to the head, peep the summary

Wake up in the mornin' got me yearnin' for food

Yeah, yeah what, huh, I'm that type of dude

Pledge allegiance, pay attention, payin' homage

So much time held in my hand, none for college

[Chorus: Afu-Ra]

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop (Hey Afu)

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop (Hey Afu)

What? I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop (Hey Afu)

Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it non-stop (Hey Afu)

[Bridge 2: Ky-Mani Marley]

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to bust

They wanna guide my medication with their crooked laws

Say I can't hold a bong and smoke, my Lord

But, if it's war that they want, we are ready, are registered

The king, it is he, who defends me

So when it's time for the showdown

We're marchin', the soldiers Babylon get throwed down

When the war is over we burn up the whole town

And my spliff will stay lit from sun up to sun down

Ayy, ayy, Afu

[Bridge 1]

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to say, ay

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared, now I say

[Verse 2: Afu-Ra]

Stimulating verses like blood working

Paper hits the pen like the needle to your skin

Blow your blood up, Xena, heroin

More contagious than sex (Sex), nobody flex

Dangerous minds, little kids throw gang signs

Treacherous times, too many can't press rewind

Stress the elevation, wrap my thoughts like a mummy

It's funny how sometimes some smart ones are dummies

Scorin' a million, forget the S.A.T

Now I, leap more towers than Pisa, peep the ether

Wrap it in a scroll, pass it off to Ky-Mani

Lessons of exquisiteness versus poetry

[Bridge 1 + Chorus]

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to say, ay

Slow down, don't rush

I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared, now I say