Follow The Leader-Eric B. & Rakim

[00:00.000] 作词 : William Griffin/Eric Barrier/Bob James [00:01.000] 作曲 : William Griffin/Eric Barrier/Bob James [00:10.062][Produced By Eric B] [00:14.526][Verse 1: Rakim] [00:27.718]Follow me into a solo, get in the flow [00:30.023]And you can picture like a photo [00:31.417]Music mix, mellow maintains to make [00:33.484]Melodies for emcees, motivates the breaks [00:35.512]I'm everlasting, I can go on for days and days [00:37.801]With rhyme displays that engrave deep as x-rays [00:40.153]I can take a phrase that's rarely heard [00:42.135]Flip it - now it's a daily word [00:44.593]I can get iller than 'Nam, I kill and bomb [00:46.651]But no alarm - Rakim'll remain calm [00:49.166]Self-esteem makes me super, superb and supreme [00:51.336]But for a microphone, still I fiend [00:53.247]This was a tape, I wasn't supposed to break [00:55.623]I was supposed to wait, but let's motivate [00:57.523]I want to see you keep following and swallowing [00:59.773]Taking and making, biting and borrowing [01:02.268]Brothers tried and others died to get the formula [01:04.504]But I'mma let you sweat, you still ain't warm, you a [01:06.495]Step away from frozen, stiff as if you're posing [01:08.329]Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen [01:10.600]So follow me and while you're thinking you were first [01:12.842]Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe [01:15.177]What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away [01:17.833]Planets as small as balls of clay [01:19.415]Astray into the Milky Way, worlds out of sight [01:21.641]Far as the eye can see not even a satellite [01:23.713]Now stop and turn around and look [01:25.577]As you stare in the darkness, your knowledge is took [01:28.482]So keep staring, soon you suddenly see a star [01:30.591]You better follow it, 'cause it's the R [01:32.663]This is a lesson if you're guessing and if you're borrowing [01:34.951]Hurry hurry step right up and keep following the leader [01:37.553][Verse 2: Rakim] [01:54.614]This is a lifetime mission, vision a prison [01:57.169]Aight, listen [01:59.359]In this journey you're the journal, I'm the journalist [02:01.212]Am I eternal? Or an eternalist? [02:03.083]I'm about to flow long as I can possibly go [02:05.518]Keep you moving 'cause the crowd said so [02:07.617]Dance! Cuts rip your pants [02:09.647]Eric B on the blades bleeding to death, call the ambulance [02:12.062]Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze [02:13.697]A magnum as a microphone, murdering emcees [02:16.447]Let's quote, a rhyme from a record I wrote [02:18.683](Follow the leader) Yeah, **** [02:21.009]'Cause every time I stop it seems you're stuck [02:22.839]As soon as you try to step off you self-destruct [02:24.959]I came to overcome before I'm gone [02:26.873]By showing and proving and letting knowledge be born [02:29.179]Then after that I live forever. You disagree? [02:31.548]You say never? Then follow me [02:33.635]From century to century, you'll remember me [02:35.807]In history, not a mystery or a memory [02:38.139]God by nature, mind raised in Asia [02:40.277]Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya [02:42.694]From the cradle to the grave [02:44.427]But remember - you're not a slave [02:47.001]'Cause we was put here to be much more than that [02:49.024]But we couldn't see because our mind was trapped [02:51.171]But I'm here to break away the chains, take away the pains [02:53.487]Remake the brains, rebuild my name [02:55.276]I guess nobody told you a little knowledge is dangerous [02:58.105]It can't be mixed, diluted, it can't be changed or switched [03:00.331]Here's a lesson if you're guessing and borrowing [03:02.030]Hurry, hurry step right up and keep following the leader [03:04.583][Verse 3: Rakim] [03:22.143]A furified freestyle - lyrics of fury [03:24.046]My third eye make me shine like jewelry [03:26.264]You're just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid [03:28.438]I'll be here when it fade, I'll watch you flip like a renegade [03:30.515]I can't wait to break and eliminate [03:32.840]On every traitor or snake, so stay awake [03:34.713]And follow and follow because the tempo's a trail [03:37.052]The stage is a cage, the mic is a third rail [03:39.390]I'm Rakim, the fiend of a microphone [03:41.737]I'm not him, so leave my mic alone [03:43.743]Soon as the beat is felt, I'm ready to go [03:45.439]So fasten your seatbelt, 'cause I'm about to flow [03:48.363]No need to speed, slow down and let the leader lead [03:50.321]Word to daddy...indeed [03:52.354]The R's a rolling stone, so I'm rolling [03:54.377]Directions is told then the rhymes are stolen [03:56.743]Stop buggin' a brother said dig him, I never dug him [03:58.859]He couldn't follow the leader long enough so I drug him [04:01.095]Into danger zone he should arrange his own [04:03.547]Face it, it's basic, erase it change your tone [04:05.419]There's one R in the alphabet [04:07.337]It's a one letter word and it's about to get [04:09.459]More complex from one rhyme to the next [04:12.215]Eric B. be easy on the flex [04:14.255]I've been from state to state, followers tailgate [04:16.220]Keep coming but you came too late, but I'll wait [04:18.265]So back up, regroup, get a grip, come equipped [04:20.662]You're the next contestant, clap your hands, you won a trip [04:22.924]The price is right don't make a deal too soon [04:24.903]How many notes, can you name this tune? [04:27.248]Follow the leader is a title/theme/task [04:29.666]Now you know, you don't have to ask [04:31.566]Rap is rhythm and poetry, cuts create sound effects [04:33.975]You might catch up if you follow the records E wrecks [04:36.051]Until then keep eating and swallowing [04:38.403]You better take a deep breath and keep following the leader