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 nonstop
   What, I pledge allegiance to the hip-hop
   Yeah, I pledge allegiance to it nonstop
  
   (Afu-ra)
   Meditation, equality, it keeps me level headed, the men-tal-ity
   Cool, calm, posignatic with suggestion
   Never stressin, heat chambers never sweatin
   Honeys cryin, 'cause her man she caught cheatin
   Mothers eyein, sons cut down like bushes
   Daddys sicker than the land lord, just evicted
   Stressed to death, month to 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 ya into, is just a technicality
   Check it, deep inside of my head like T.V.
   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 dollars G
   Straight shots in the head, peep the summary
   Wake up in the mornin got me yearnin for food
   Yeah, yeah what, huh, I'm that type a dude
   Pledge allegiance, pay attention, payin homage
   So much time held in my hand, none for college (college)
  
   (Chorus)
   Hey Afu, hey Afu, hey Afu, hey Afu
   (Bridge 2)
   Slow down, don't rush,
   I'm here to keep the peace but I'm prepared to bust
   They wanna cut my meditation with their crooked laws
   Say I can't hold a bong and smoke my la
   If it's war that they want we already are registered
   The king, it is he, who defends me
   So when it's time for the showdown
   We'll march in the soldiers Babylon, get throwed down
   When the war is over we run up the whole town
   And my spliff will stay lit from sun up to sun down
   Ay, Afu
  
   (Bridge 1)
  
   (Afu-ra)
   Stimulating, verses like blood working
   Paper hits the pen like the needle to ya skin
   Blow ya blood up, Xena, hero-in
   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 one's a dummy
   Scorin a million, forget the S.A.T.
   Now I leap on towers in Piza, peep the ether
   Wrap it in a scroll, pass it off to Carmani
   Lessons of exquisietness verses poetry
  
   (Bridge 1)
   (Chorus)