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Clap your hands, put your hands together |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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This is for thousands of people who came |
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A show from road to road you're entertained |
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I don't even have to say my name' |
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Cause when the place is ripped in half, |
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I'm to blame |
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Masses of posses packed up schemin' |
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Ladies lovely and keep on screamin' |
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Go Rakim, go |
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Rakim, goIt won't be long then it's on with the show |
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I'm late, so hit the brakes and park the |
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BenzitoDouble |
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O seven, incognito |
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Sneak in the back door, lookin' for the stage |
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When I get on you react in a rage |
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People from side to side and front to back |
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Won't dance, if the |
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MC's whack |
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The crowd go psycho even if |
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I don't move |
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Some like the groove 'cause |
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I'm so smooth |
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Then somethin' happens, feet start tappin' |
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You can't hold back when |
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Rakim's rappin' |
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The man you've been waitin' for, rougher than ever |
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Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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I create 'em, take 'em, shake 'em, then make 'em clap to this |
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Most of you rappers, can't even rap to this |
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I made it faster, you tried to master |
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Syncopated styles, words flowin' after |
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Measures of metaphor definitions of more than one |
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Take it both ways, |
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I'll be here when you're done |
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Remember as the rhyme goes on it's rougher |
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Soon as I stop, you had enough of |
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Followin' footsteps, you better turn back soon |
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Sucker MC's suck rhymes like vacuums |
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The style remains the same, the words is changed |
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Bitten, re-written, recited and re-arranged |
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Sing along if your tongue is strong, it gets sore |
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Sing when |
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I'm gone and it'll break your jaw |
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Wisdom flows so swift, |
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I'm Asiatic |
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Is it a gift, or automatic? |
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Static, I don't cling |
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I got a tip of my own and |
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I don't sing |
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Don't understand, here's an example |
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And why MC's and |
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DJ's sample' |
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Cause we don't have a band, it's just my voice and his hands |
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That's what hip-hop was, it still stands |
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The records we use are from mom's and pop's collection |
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Find a break from a dope selection |
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And go to the store, then buy one more |
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So my DJ can mix 'cause that's what his hands are for |
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Years later hip-hop got contracts |
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The chance to put actual facts on wax |
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A mind's the coach, the physical form's the team |
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The top's the destination, |
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I'm the cream |
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And still |
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I rise with somethin' pumpin' and somethin' clever |
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Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands, clap 'em, clap 'em |
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Clap your, clap your, clap your hands |
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Now who's the man with the master plan? |
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With stacks of verbal attacks so clap your hands |
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Rhyme written in graffiti, xeroxed on blueprints |
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Students influenced are now a nuisance |
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You couldn't fight it, you had to clap to this |
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You got excited, you almost snapped your wrist |
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The rhymes was written for the crowd's enjoyment |
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When I'm with this you can't toy with |
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The def jam juicer rough rhyme producer |
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Loads of lyrics get you loose, then looser |
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The man so smooth and world so rough |
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Eric is throwin' and sewin' rippin' re-stitchin' the cuts |
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Microphone your majesty, no one's bad as me |
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Seems the tragedy, |
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Rakim had to be |
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Thinkin' of some def view of a video |
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Visions are vicious, and |
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I'll let the city know |
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Whoever's frontin' they know, nothin' to say though |
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So lay low, musical forms are kickin' like |
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KatoDon't get near it, hard as you ever hear it |
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I know it's fearified, but don't fear it |
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And try to predict which rhyme you can kick |
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You're quick to pick your best, for the mic is lit |
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Instead of goin' with the flow like you're supposed to go |
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And enjoy the show and yo, put your hands together |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, put your hands together |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
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Clap your hands, clap your hands |
