ROUND 1 - HOE HOE Follow me into a solo Get in the flow - and you can picture like a photo Music mixed mellow maintains to make Melodies for MCs motivates the breaks Im everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase thats rarely heard, FLIP IT Now its a daily word I can get iller than Nam, a killin bomb But no alarm - Rakim will remain calm Self-esteem make me super superb and supreme But for a microphone still I fiend This was a tape I wasnt supposed to break I was supposed to wait, but lets motivate I want to see who can keep followin and swallowin Takin the making, bitin it and borrowin Brothers tried and others died to get the formula But Ima let ya sweat - you still aint warm You a step away from frozen, stiff as if ya posin Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen So follow me and were ya thinkin you were first? Lets travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe What could ya say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are small as balls of clay Astray into the Milky Way - worlds outasight Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite Now stop and turn around and look As ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took! So keep starin soon ya suddenly see a star You better follow it cause its the R This is a lesson if ya guessin and if ya borrowin Hurry hurry step right up and keep followin The Leader [Verse Two:] This is a lifetime mission, vision of prison Aight listen In this journey youre the journal Im the journalist Am I Eternal? Or an eternalist? Im about to flow long as I can possibly go Keep ya movin cause the crowd said so Dance - cuts rip ya pants Eric B on the blades, bleedin to death - call the ambulance Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze A magnum as a microphone murderin MCs Lets quote a rhyme from a record I wrote (follow the leader) Yeah - dope Cause everytime I stop it seems ya stuck Soon as ya try to step off ya self-destruct I came to overcome before Im gone By showin and provin and lettin knowledge be born Then after that Ill live forever - you disagree? You say never? Then follow me! From century to century youll remember me In history - not a mystery or a memory God by nature, mind raised in Asia Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya From the cradle to the grave, but remember Youre not a slave Cause we was put here to be much more than that But we couldnt see it because our mind was trapped But Im here to break away the chains, take away the pains Remake the brains, reveal my name I guess nobody told you a little knowledge is dangerous It cant be mixed, diluted; it cant be changed or switched Heres a lesson if ya guessing and borrowing Hurry hurry, step right up and keep following The leader [Verse Three:] A furified freestyle, lyrics of fury My third eye makes me shine like jewelry Youre just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid Ill be here when it fade to watch you flip like a renegade I cant wait to break and eliminate On every traitor or snake - so stay awake and follow and follow, because the tempos a trail The stage is a cage, the mic is a third rail Im Rakim the Fiend of a Microphone Im not HIM, so leave my mic alone Soon as the beat is felt, Im ready to go So fasten your seatbelt, cause Im about to flow No need to speed slow down to let the leader lead Word to daddy, indeed! The Rs a rollin stone, so Im rollin Directions is told, then the rhymes are stolen Stop buggin, a brother said, dig em, I never dug em He couldnt follow the leader long enough so I drug em into danger zone, he should arrange his own Face it, its basic, erase it, change ya tone Theres one R in the alphabet Its a one-letter word and its about to get More complex from one rhyme to the next Eric B be easy on the flex Ive been from state to state, followers tailgate Keep comin but you came too late, but Ill wait So back up, regroup, get a grip, come equipped Youre the next contestant - clap ya hands, you won a trip! The price is right - dont make a deal too soon How many notes could you name this tune? Follow the Leader is the title, theme, task Now ya know, you dont have to ask Rap is Rhythm And Poetry, cuts create sound effects You might catch up if you follow the records E. wrecks Until then keep eatin and swallowin You better take a deep breath and keep followin The leader.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 23:59:42 +0000
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