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