Teddy Riley - How Kool Can One Blackman Be lyrics

[Intro] Yeah, yeah, yeah [Verse 1] Ice water, watch your daughter Your mother and your sisters, aunts Nieces and your wife's ought to Know, ain't nobody safe when I'm in the place I'm dropping more ba** when face-to-face Erase haste with the taste of a steady pace Ain't no time to waste and it ain't no race You state your case and work your weights Without a trace... and just wait For double-black to double back and make that move Break it to ya, I'ma do ya, and I ain't that cool Enough to take you plus I ain't just Here to bust, so you know what: it ain't just Another brother or another joke with money Cause I'm giving you something to work with honey You can feel the heat but it ain't no pressure When I turn the heat on, the cool breeze'll refresh ya [Hook] How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be? How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be? [Verse 2] Put it in flow-motion, ice cool with a nice cool breeze Native-sung native tongue for the young ladies Dropping rhymes, rocking minds and concubines Treat it like a king of this hip hop thing that rhymes Manifest as a vehicle, and see a full Picture I'm wit'cha, I'll hit'cha with mixtures And become a fixture inside your heart Make you feel the pulse of my beat even miles apart Ain't no mountain high enough, or a valley low To stop Kool Moe, I got a cosmic flow I glow like a moon, it dictates your mood But cool ain't a mood, it's an attitude dude It's a tone, it's a tempo, a mindset, a rhythm A lifestyle, religion, it's just how you're livin' I'm righteously cool while here and hereafter I'm so cool that I have to ask ya [Hook] How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be? How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be? [Verse 3] Easy does it, not because it's easy Turn the heat on and it still won't freeze me Internal climate control controls the climate That's why I rhyme at the temperatures I'm at Usually freeze competitive emcees And breaks them down in threes, and lights them up like Christmas trees Fortified with tranquility, to deal with the trilogy I got the ability for upward mobility Break calm, genetically athletically mental Exercising thoughts cause I went through Party like a trooper, complete mind fighter And now I'm known, a super elite rhyme writer Now there's women and millions in dollars and loads Fly gear to wear as the stage explodes Role model for the people cause I keep a level head When I look into the mirror the reflection said [Hook] How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be? How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be? [Verse 4] I never lose my composure cause I ain't supposed to I rose for the occasion, thoughts never froze, I chose A pattering pattern that patterned to the battle zone You can get rattled home, so don't even travel, roam Or drift or wander into my vicinity I'll respond and conk with no affinity Identity scrape, broken down on tape And it ain't no escape, and you gets no breaks I make few mistakes cause I strive for perfection Head for the hills if I shoot in your direction Protection's limited, heroic images Are broken down, hell-bound from the minute its Image is amplified, I'll be damned if I Believe the hype of stereotypes, I plan to die Like a warrior, fight until I'm free How cool Can One Black man Be? [Hook] How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be? How cool, how cool, how cool How cool can one Black man be?