- After You Die
Chorus 2x:
Do You Ever Think
What Life Would Be
Where You Will Go
After you Die?
Verse 1:
Do you ever sit back and get a little too high,
- Flow Forever
[Rakim]
Aiyyo.. what's goin on?
The Mic Lebanon Teflon Don..
I'm back baby
The year of the 9's
and I'ma have to make these motherfuckers a offer they can't refuse
Y'know?
- Hip Hop
Hip Hop
Rakim
That's what it is, uh huh
Nick Wiz, turn my headphones up, man
Uh, uh
(Hook)
Ayo, if you miss Hip-Hop, then stand up
- Holy Are U
[Chorus]
Holy are you
Holy are you
There is no God but you (ah huh)
There is no God but you
(I need to talk to y'all for a minute)
Praised be the Lord
(And be serious for a minute)
- How To Emcee
God MC
Look what y'all made me do
[Hook: Rakim]
It don't matter if I ain't on the page you want
Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want
Show you how to flow and how to flip any phrase you want
You just keep your eye on me
- It's Been A Long Time
It's been a long time..
It's been a long time..
It's been a long time..
It's been a long time..
.. Rakim, the microphone soloist
[Rakim]
Follow procedures, the crowd couldn't wait to see this
- It's The R
Hey yo, it's Mr. Low,key, you need to go see
The host by far a mostly O.T., with a brand new show, but
You know how the flow be
'Cause when I swerve, you observe it closely
If you smoke trees, smoke more than an O.Z.
Mix any kind of dope with me, you O.D.
You get the seed, LP, C.O.D.
Poetry 'cause you to fully load the V
- Lyrics of fury
[Verse one:]
I'm rated "R"...this is a warning, ya better void,
Poets are paranoid, DJ's D-stroyed,
Cuz I came back to attack others in spite-
Strike like lightnin', It's quite frightenin'!
But don't be afraid in the dark, in a park,
Not a scream or a cry, or a bark, more like a spark;
- R.A.K.I.M.
Ra! (*repeat 7X*)
[Chorus: repeat 2X]
R: Rugged and rough that's how I do it
A: Allah who I praise to the fullest
K: Keep it moving,
I: Stand alone
M: It's my crown, my world, my throne
- Satisfaction Guaranteed
Uh…..I got it good (Neyo)
I put product in the street that sell quicker than
weed, I spit it raw like I'm flippin a key
I got what y'all need (Satisfaction Guaranteed)
I got what y'all need (Satisfaction Guaranteed)
I got pure for the fiends give u more than a breeze,
- Show Me
Yeah... check it out... show me love
Promise you won't do me wrong (for sure)
If I turn you on (yeah)
Promise you'll stay all night long (on on)
Makin love til dawn
Yo, it's time to bring the day in, fresh out the crib sauteein
- Still In Love
hey yo every time hear some real hip hop man I start
thinking... yo I"m still in love man ...listen
I'm in booth like prison
lid like lift
if music's like woman
i'm whipped like a nymph
i love to keep it pushing
like the basement speakers
- Strong Island
[Rakim]
One two
Yeah, yeah,
"Rough enough to break New York from Long Island"
Yeah it's the God baby,
Long Island's own,
Barbarian of the microphone,
- The saga begins
[singing] Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh...
[whistle]
[KRS-One] "Ghetto Music"
(here we go...)
[Mobb Deep] "Yo"
[The R] "And my name is Rakim..."
[x5]
- Uplift
(1st verse)
Levantore!
Yeah, it's just ghetto, kid test the devil to hit the next level
Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal
Inflex the bezzle with the peddle to the metal
In a thug's paradise where love have a price
So we love for life like thugs love the night
They sell drugs for ice for the Benz with bug lights
- When I B On The Mic
[DJ Premier scratches hook]
(Hardcore...real ill niggas)
(I'm internationally known)
(When I be on the mic)
(Hardcore...real ill niggas)
(I'm internationally known, yo)
- When I'm Flowin
Yes yes y'all check it out y'all (repeat 2X)
Chorus: Rakim
(Yo) I find a show rhyme til it's time to go
I'm designed to blow my mind's inclined to flow
Yo my M.O. makin all kind of dough
From the info that Rakim show y'know?
- When I'm Flowin'
Yes yes y'all, check it out y'all [Repeat: x2]
[Chorus]
(Yo) I find a show, rhyme til it's time to go
I'm designed to blow, my mind's inclined to flow
Yo, my M.O., making all kind of dough
From the info that Rakim show, ya know?
- Workin' For You
Yeah, let's get it cracking
I've been working for you (it's for my ladies) doing all I can (all I can)
All the time (all the time)
I've been working for you (it's for my hustlers) doing all I can (all I can)
All the time (all the time)
I've been working for you (worldwide baby) doing all I can (all I can)
All the time (all the time)