Eric B. And Rakim - Follow The Leader Lyrics

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[Verse 1: Rakim]

Follow me into a solo get in the flow

And you can picture like a photo

Music mix mellow maintains to make

Melodies for emcees motivates the breaks

I'm everlasting I can go on for days and days

With rhyme displays that engrave deep as x-rays

I can take a phrase that's rarely heard

Flip it - now it's a daily word

I can get iller than 'Nam I kill and bomb

But no alarm - Rakim'll remain calm

Self-esteem makes me super superb and supreme

Before a microphone still I fiend

This was a tape I wasn't supposed to break

I was supposed to wait but let's motivate

I want to see you keep following and swallowing

Taking and making biting and borrowing

Brothers tried and others died to get the formula

But I'mma let you sweat you still ain't formed

You a step away from frozen stiff as if you're posing

Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen

So follow me and while you're thinking you averse

Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe

What could you say as the earth gets further and further away

Planets as small as balls of clay

Astray into the milky way worlds out of sight

As far as the eye can see not even a satellite

Now stop and turn around and look

As you stare in the darkness your knowledge is took

So keep staring soon you suddenly see a star

You better follow it cause it's the R

This is a lesson if you're guessing and if you're borrowing

Hurry hurry step right up and keep following the leader

[Verse 2: Rakim]

This is a lifetime mission envision a prison. Aight listen

In this journey you're the journal I'm the journalist

Am I eternal? Or an eternalist?

I'm about to flow long as I can possibly go

Keep you moving cause the crowd says so

Dance! Cuts rip your pants

Eric B on the blades bleeding to death call the ambulance

Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze

A magnum as a microphone murdering emcees

Let's quote a rhyme from a record I wrote (follow the leader)

Yeah dope

Cause every time I stop it seems you're stuck

As soon as you try to step off you self-destruct

I came to overcome before I'm gone

By showing and proving and letting knowledge be born

Then after that I live forever. You disagree?

You say never? Then follow me

From century to century you'll remember me

In history not a mystery or a memory

God by nature mind raised in Asia

Since you was tricked I have to raise ya

From the cradle to the grave

But remember - you're not a slave

Cause we was put here to be much more than that

But we couldn't see because our mind was trapped

But I'm here to break away the chains take away the pains

Remake the brains rebuild my name

I guess somebody told you - a little knowledge is dangerous

It can't be mixed diluted it can't be changed or switched

Here's a lesson if you're guessing and borrowing

Hurry hurry step right up and keep following the leader

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[Verse 3: Rakim]

A furified freestyle - lyrics of fury

My third eye makes me shine like jewelry

You're just a rent-a-rapper your rhymes are minute-maid

I'll be here when it fades I'll watch you flip like a renegade

I can't wait to break and eliminate

On every trait of a snake so stay awake

And followers follow because the tempo's a trail

The stage is a cage the mic is a third rail

I'm Rakim - the fiend of a microphone

I'm not him - so leave my mic alone

Soon as the beat is felt I'm ready to go

So fasten your seatbelt cause I'm about to flow

No need to speed slow down and let the leader lead

Word to daddy...indeed

The R's a rolling stone so I'm rollin'

Directions told then the rhymes are stolen

Stop buggin' a brother said dig him-I never dug him

He couldn't follow the leader long enough so I drug him

Into danger zone he should arrange his own

Face it it's basic erase or change your tone

There's one R in the alphabet

It's a one letter word and it's about to get

More complex from one rhyme to the next

Eric B be easy on the flex

I've been from state to state followers tailgate

Keep coming but you came too late but I'll wait

So back up your group get a grip come equipped

You're the next contestant clap your hands you won a trip

The Price Is Right don't Make A Deal too soon

How many notes - can you Name This Tune?

Follow the leader is a title/theme/task

Now you know you don't have to ask

Rap is rhythm and poetry cuts create sound effects

You might catch up if you follow the records he wrecks

Until then keep eating and swallowing

Hurry hurry step right up and keep following the leade

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