[Intro: Mos Def]
  Hello Children
  
  [Chorus 1: Mos Def]
  Black Jack Johnson N.Y.C., R-O-C-K-I-N-G
  Sun and the moon, earths, stars, and planets
  Before song done y'all goin' all understand it
  
  [Verse 1: Mos Def]
  Like - Hot
  The haters can't fuck with it
  'Cause they mom and they sister and girl in love with
  it (and they niggaz)
  Sound man holla black COME WITH IT
  Sping the record 'till the record done spinning
  Up top is you getting up with it?
  Dirty dirty is you getting cronk with it?
  Smokey smoke from coast to coast
  Be carefull our first draw be that overdose
  Who stay holding it from Brooklyn? YOU KNOW IS MOS!
  Ha, Jackpot I (Sing yo) got to go for broke
  Is this the only way the Smith Family now to go
  Right here to my youngest one is older folks
  Im'ma put down like a dirty so and so
  Freak daddy came here to work the mojo - oh
  Because the - high is high and the low is low
  And that goes for the sinner man to holy folks
  Put your shit in the sky like I know you - oh
  [Brooklyn stand up!]
  Ha, my ghetto nation get toe to toe
  Stay rocking steady steady 'cause I told you so
  And after y'all get it go I let it go some more
  That Black Jack about something for sure) for sure
  [SAY WHAT!]
  For sure for sure [HA!]
  Let me see you in the world making your shoulder role
  And if it get good tell your nigga throw your 'bows
  
  [Chorus 2: Mos Def]
  'Cause we are so ghetto
  Yes we are rock and roll
  Yes we are so ghetto
  Yes we are rock and roll
  Yes we are so ghetto
  Yes we are rock and roll
  Yes we are so ghetto
  Yes we are - rock and motherfucking roll (WOOOO!)
  
  [Verse 2: Mos Def]
  Ha, I am a fighter and a lover
  I'm the freaky baby daddy, I'm a bad motherfucker
  I'm the earth, wind, fire, and the thunder
  I said I am, go ask my mother
  You don't believe that shit believe what you want to
  Alright, OK, So, Shut-up!
  Speak language come straight from the gutter
  Observe the terms that we trade with one and other
  Like - what's good, what's popping, what's cracking
  What it is, how you living, what's happening
  Work songs that the slaves sang back then
  The playground chants, with little girls claping
  
  [Chorus 2: Mos Def] + (Girls chanting)
  Black John Johnson N.Y.C., R-O-C-K-I-N-G
  Son and the moon, earths, stars, and planets
  Before the song done y'all going all understand it
  Black John Johnson N.Y.C., R-O-C-K-I-N-G
  Son and the moon, earths stars and planets
  Before the song done y'all going all understand it
  
  [Outro: Mos Def]
  SPACE!
  GIMME THE SPACE!
  BACK UP, GIMME THE SPACE!!!
  LET A NIGGA ROCK!
  GIMME THE SPACE!
  LET A NIGGA ROCK!
  LET A NIGGA ROCK, HA!
  This is the sound
  Ghettos rock
  This is the sound
  Ghettos rock
  This is the sound
  Ghettos rock
  This is the sound
  Ghettos rock
  This is the sound
  Ghettos rock
  This is the sound
  Ghettos rock and - MOTHERFUCKING ROLLLLLLLLL!