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