How I Get Down (Album Version (Explicit)) Rakim

[00:21.62] Before the dough came, my whole aim, was blow like propane
[00:25.28] Control the whole domain, and then show no shame
[00:27.99] Make rappers go? and they so lame, playin with no game
[00:30.70] Put em on the lil plane til they can't claim no fame
[00:33.44] I got, the range, better, stay in the slow lane
[00:36.17] I make the flow change from hurricanes to a slow rain
[00:38.97] Your thoughts are so plane, I rearrange your whole frame
[00:41.69] Until my whole name grow out your brain like Rogaine
[00:45.22] Letter by letter, I put words together
[00:47.98] Once merged, apart never, they be heard forever
[00:50.68] And then I grab a pen and stab him in his abdomen
[00:53.36] And smash him in, throw his mic like a javelin
[00:56.03] Then I explains, that remain on the surface
[00:58.73] At times it get deep, but I never defeat the purpose
[01:01.44] Never go out, to go the dough route, forever hold out
[01:04.17] I never sold out, for any amount, no doubt
[01:06.95] Rakim (repeat 2X)
[01:07.89] That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that
[01:09.68] I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track
[01:12.34] I start a party now - everybody like rap
[01:15.06] Haters are mad cause they gave the R the mic back
[01:29.50] I like to hang where e'rythang seem to happen at (y'know?)
[01:32.27] It's Ra's habitat, I'm like that czar Arafat
[01:35.98] And yes I have a gat, snap like a Israeli
[01:38.61] A terrorist I never miss blowin up kids daily
[01:41.37] I step to writers, and let my virus hurt the closest
[01:44.00] I'm sick as hepatitis and worse than tuberculosis
[01:46.75] Pull out a pen, like a grenade, and drop it quick
[01:50.44] I strike again and I'ma get paid, exotic shit
[01:53.15] You know the God ra be, hot as the Mojave
[01:54.97] Swing like King Usabi, my posse be kamikaze
[01:57.67] On the corners like I'm homeless and I, don't know where home is
[02:00.44] The bonus, is where the next open microphone is
[02:04.07] Me and my team, vision like a radar screen
[02:05.87] Intervene and yo, cut the mic off, cause Ra fiend
[02:09.58] To show the whole world some of the things I seen
[02:12.23] Then blow it up, like Edi Amin, yaknahmean?
[02:14.94] I do a thang thang, I write the songs they sing
[02:40.29] Make sure that they swing, from New York to Beijing
[02:42.97] Put your thoughts in the sling and your brain is gangrene
[02:45.62] Pull in the ring, repeatin and sayin the same thing
[02:48.37] Xerox, zero, no match, you ditto
[02:51.02] Copy machine, couldn't reprint my?
[02:54.76] My new style, that I produce now's beyond two-thou'
[02:57.40] I knew how, since a juvenile, to make a ka-pow
[03:00.17] When the night's fallin, I can hear the mic callin
[03:02.83] I like ballin, I cut back like Mic Jordan
[03:05.56] This is for y'all while I'm spittin literatures
[03:08.26] Lyrics'll ball like Allen Iverson dribble the ball
[03:11.81] They hopeless - whoever approaches my high explosives
[03:13.69] My vision sadicious, and freestyle's ferocious
[03:17.23] I wrote this, words flew over my head like a locust
[03:19.92] I turned the beat up, sat back, and stayed focused
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