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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.... |
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Rakim, the microphone soloist |
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Follow procedures, the crowd couldn't wait to see this |
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Nobody been this long awaited since Jesus |
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Who wouldn't believe this - |
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I heard the word on the street is |
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I'm still one of the deepest on the mic since Adidas |
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They said I changed the times from the rhymes that I thought of |
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So I made some more to put the New World in Order |
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With Mathematics, put your status above the average |
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And help you rappers, make paragraphs with graphics |
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Cause new days is dawnin, new ways of peformin |
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Brainstormin,I write and watch the night turn to mornin |
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On and on and,I got the whole world respondin |
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Rock, I keep it hot and blow the spot without warnin |
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The Emperor, well known for, inventin a sentence |
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full of adventure, turnin up the temperature |
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Rush with adrenaline, how long has it been again to be in the state of mind that Rakim is in? |
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It's been a long time.. |
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Rakim, the microphone soloist |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.... Rakim |
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When I'm out proppin - either, hangin or shoppin |
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People see me stop and ask me when the album droppin |
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The wait is over, in-formation like a soldier |
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Like I told ya, greater stronger, now that I'm older |
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I broke the, code of silence with overloads of talents |
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My only challenge, is not to explode in violence |
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I'm Asiatic, and blazin microphones a habit |
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At least once durin the course of a day, it's automatic |
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In ghetto apparel, mind of a Egyptian Pharoah |
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Far from shallow, thoughts travel like an arrow |
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Allah's monotony, so far they can't stop me |
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You know,Ra want property likeMumar Khadafi |
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More thoughts than Bibles, recital - taught disciples |
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A sawed off mic, so words scatter like a rifle |
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Thoughts that's trifle,I'm bustin these for you |
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Aiyyo, technical difficulties is through |
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It's been a long time.. |
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Rakim, the microphone soloist |
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It's been a long time.. |
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Rakim, the microphone soloist |
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It's been a long time.. |
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Rakim, the microphone soloist |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.... |
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When I float at night,I show em new heights,I go to write |
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They know I strike with new prototypes to blow the mic |
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Critics and biters, don't know where my source of light is |
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Still leave authors and writers with arthritis |
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Cursed kids like the Pyramids when they found the style |
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First to ever let a rhyme flow down the Nile |
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The rebirth of hip-hop'll be dropped now |
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Cause the crowd didn't hear the original in a while |
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So be alarmed, what you bout to see is the bomb |
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Like, 3-D in 'Nam, vivid like CD-Rom |
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Info kept like "internet.com" |
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My note-book's my bond like the Holy Qu'ran |
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Since I came in the door, said it before |
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But no I ain't down with Eric B. no more |
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At night the open mic be invitin me to rhyme |
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So yo I'm online, it's been a long time |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.. |
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Rakim, the microphone soloist |
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It's been a long time.. |
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Rakim, the microphone soloist |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.... |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.. |
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It's been a long time.. |
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