[Intro: Steelo El]
Motherf**ers not gon just keep quiet about this sh** much longer, n***a
[Verse 1: Steelo El]
Look, this is nothing simple for the simple minded
sh** to wake your conscious if you're sleep, unconscious
Please do not ignore this, no
This too important
Man you got to pay attention even if you can't afford it
This sh**, I cannot support
They got way too much power
You see them cops they got they heaters sparking
You better proceed with Caution
That's why I stay a foot like 12 inches
I'm cooking in Hell's Kitchen
They thinking that Els tripping but sh**..
How I'm supposed to feel safe for my brothers?
My daughters about to be my color....
& if a these pigs ever f** w her wrong, that's when I'll really k** a cop
Don't give a f** bout a song
These rappers get some f**ing money, act like nothing is wrong
This sh** just stress me out that's why I'm always puffin this strong
Ripped this yellow tape off me I got questions, I need answers
Selena didn't have to die, you been had he cure for cancer
f**ing greedy!
Pops too man, you think this sh** is f**ing easy?
Man of the house before a n***a was even teething
But imagine if he was rich
You think it's magic how Magic got fixed?
Man that capitalism is a muhf**a ain't it?
They don't care if you die unless you f**ing famous
Or can make the payments
Food for thought, I can't leave em brainless
I'm Steel here & I'm stainless
Steelo, the man of Steel
I'm only here to save the world with a word
So if they ask, just tell me it's the realist sh** you heard
I gotta fill up with the syrup
Just to slow sh** down cause I'm scared of what the future holds...
I'm not the guy you used to know
& don't say I changed just cause you refuse to grow
& don't say my name, n***a
I ain't Destiny's child
I ain't had a rest in a while
Been had my head in the clouds
Let's bring an end to it now
[Hook: Steelo El & Rawlo Black]
If time could tell you tales of time, what would it tell you?
(Proceed With Caution)
If you don't know the way of life, my words will tell you
(Proceed With Caution)
This Yellow Tape on me, they trying to keep me quiet, no
This Yellow Tape on me, I'm about to start a riot!
(Proceed With Caution)
[Verse 2: Rawlo Black]
I'm timing all my time, don't know when time gon run out
You never know when 5-0 choose to pull that gun out
I pray these cops don't let one out before The Ones out
Mama, they might take your sun out in the open while the sun out
All lives don't matter if the wrong lives matter
& if politics is true, then n***a all lives matter
I'm hungry for nothing but peace, need it on my platter
Martin Luther's dreams, we seeing all that shatter
You tell us everything is fine and this is all true fact
Cause I think it's long book chapters
I had this whole sh** backwards
People withhold their actions
Cause they know sh** happens
But what if no sh** happen?
We wouldn't know sh** happened
Teaching slavery to kids for what? That sh** don't happen no more... Not at all
White men on a horse ain't rocking Polo... Not at all
& I know money's all a n***a need
To it with caution, how a n***a gon proceed
f** this Election and both parties messages with big erections
Your selection of equal progression is really depressing
Drop your weapon
Ain't even have to say it, you just shot your weapon
Count my blessings, I won't even have time, I'll be gone in seconds
60 seconds all a n***a need to spread a message
We see problems in this world we live in, we address it
All you did was build retaliation from aggression
& Metro booming out here in the 7
I don't trust them, I don't trust them no no no no
So take these words and swallow it, rawlo sh**
Get that, click clack, get back, spit that hollow tip
I'm shooting at your congressmen
I'm proof of black and proud of my accomplishments
The proof will be "poof" if we don't acknowledge it
Something like magic; first you see it, now you don't
Police steady scheming. Will they feel me? No they won't
My hands could be high and will they k** me? Probably so
My time could be up and that don't mean I'm down to go. No no no no
[Hook: Steelo El & Rawlo Black]
If time could tell you tales of time, what would it tell you?
(Proceed With Caution)
If you don't know the way if life, my words will tell you
(Proceed With Caution)
This Yellow Tape on me, they trynna keep me quiet, no
This Yellow Tape on me, I'm about to start a riot!
(Proceed With Caution)
[Verse 3: BraveART]
With out a gun in my hands, I'm still a k**er, right?
With my hands up in the air, I'm still a n***a, right?
With an attitude
An animal, a person who had to be legalized to be a human being
I'm seeing that you're nervous...
You're feeling nervous, it's perfect
We picked the lock and now we open the curtains. It's evil
You painted the tabernacle with roses
But "b**boo" was the smell that Benjamin Andre warned us of
I learned, early as a tadpole, that everything that glitters ain't gold
I know your husband did us dirty
& Trump wanna steal the peoples' souls
So tell me how I vote. Huh?
Cause honestly I trust none of these people with our future
So tell me how I vote. Huh?
Cause the government is still hunting on my people
[Outro: Rawlo Black]
Watch your step. Know whats next
Watch your step. You better...
Proceed With Caution. Proceed With Caution
Watch your step. Know whats next, yeah
Proceed With Caution. You better know whats next
Watch your step
Proceed With Caution. Proceed With Caution
Watch your step
Proceed With Caution