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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 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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Brain stormin' 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 |
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To be in the state of min'd 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 |
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Rocking |
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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 information 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 pharaoh |
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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 like mumar 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 3D in 'Nam vivid like CD Rom |
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Info kept like internet com |
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My notebook's my bond like the Holy Quran |
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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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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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