I Ain't No Joke-Rakim/Eric B

[00:08.21]I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke [00:10.77]Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke [00:12.76]When i'm gone no one gets on cuz I won't let [00:15.90]Nobody press up and mess up the seen I set [00:17.23]I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder [00:19.97]Damn! But think about it then you'll understand [00:22.25]I'm just an addict addicted to music [00:24.65]Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it [00:26.80]Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm [00:28.98]I hook a beat up convert it into hip-hop form [00:31.10]Write a rhyme in graffitti in every show you see me in [00:33.58]Deep concentration, cuz I'm no comedian [00:36.11]Jokers are wild if you wanna be tamed [00:38.52]I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named [00:40.57]Another enemy, not even a friend of me [00:43.10]Cuz you'll get fried in the end when you pretend to be [00:45.43]Competin' cuz I just put your mind on pause [00:47.48]and I complete when - you compare my rhyme wit yours [00:49.76]I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned [00:52.50]Remember me, the one you got your idea from [00:54.12]But soon you start to suffer, the tune'll get rougher [00:56.97]When you start to stutter that's when you had enuff of [00:59.17]Biting, it'll make you choke, you can't provoke [01:01.27]You can't cope,you should've broke [01:02.97]because I ain't no joke.. [01:21.66]I got a question, as serious as cancer [01:24.90]Who can keep the average dancer [01:26.94]Hyper as a heart attack nobody smiling [01:29.60]Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling [01:31.40]This is what we all sit down to write [01:33.63]You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite [01:35.73]Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits [01:38.10]Get the style down pat then it's time to switch [01:40.60]Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours [01:42.65]Then you fake it you're ready for the neighborhood chores [01:44.92]The E-M-C-E-E don't even try to be [01:47.87]When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me [01:50.00]You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate [01:52.34]Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me [01:54.71]So when you see me come up, freeze [01:56.84]Or you'll be one of those 7 MC's [01:59.30]They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that [02:01.38]They who think wrong are they who can't do that [02:03.54]Style that I'm doing, they might ruin [02:06.13]Patterns and paragraphs based on you and [02:08.57]Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play [02:11.60]Sound familiar, I'll wait til E say [02:13.13]Play 'em, so I'ma have to diss and bro [02:15.20]You could get a smack for this [02:17.20]I ain't no joke... [02:36.15]I hold the microphone like a grudge [02:38.31]B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge [02:40.54]I hold a conversation cuz when I invent [02:42.48]I nominated my DJ to president [02:45.70]When I'm see I'll, keep a freestyle, going steadily [02:47.89]So pucker up and whistle my melody [02:49.81]But whatever you do, don't miss one [02:51.95]They'll be another rough rhyme after this one [02:54.34]Before you know it, you're following and fiending [02:56.75]Waiting for the punchline to get the meaning [02:58.88]Like before the middle of my story I'm telling [03:01.36]Nobody beats the R so stop yelling [03:03.57]Save it, put it in your pocket for later [03:05.75]Cuz I'm moving the crowd and B'll wreck the fader [03:08.30]No interruptions til the mic is broke [03:10.44]When I'm gone, then you can joke [03:12.89]Cuz everything is real on a serious tip [03:15.80]Keep playing and I varies quick [03:17.14]And take you for a walk through hell [03:19.40]Freeze your dome then watch your eyeballs swell [03:22.11]Guide you out of triple stage darkness [03:24.40]When it get dark again then I'ma spark this [03:26.94]Microphone cuz the heat is on, you see smoke [03:29.31]then I finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke...