Rakim - Guess Who's Back (Alternate Mix)(1997)

[00:02.44] Yeah, yeah
[00:04.84] It's the return of the Wild Style fashionist
[00:07.21] Smashin hits, make it hard to adapt to this
[00:09.55] Put pizazz and jazz in this, and cash in this
[00:12.38] Mastered this, flash this and make em clap to this
[00:14.63] DJ's throw on cuts and obey the crowd
[00:17.46] Just pump the volume up, and play it loud
[00:20.25] Hip-Hop's embedded, before I said I wouldn't let it
[00:22.79] But me and the microphone is still magnetic
[00:25.22] Straight off the top, I knew I'd be forced to rock
[00:27.76] Dancefloors just stop, the spot's scorchin hot
[00:30.17] Hoping I open Rakim Allah seminars
[00:33.05] Massage at the bar smokin ten dollar cigars
[00:35.36] While I admire midas, with more vision than TV's
[00:38.20] I find it easy catchin diabetes from fly sweeties
[00:40.37] Sit back and wait to hear a slammin track
[00:42.93] Rockin jams by popular demand, I'm back
[00:45.50] I control the crowd, you know I hold it down
[00:48.27] When it drop you know it's jiggy when you hear the sound
[00:50.75] From town to town, until it's world reknowned
[00:53.22] And I rock New York City all year around
[00:55.90] Check it out
[00:57.15] It's on so you can swerve when it's heard in clubs
[00:58.71] Thought patterns displayed on Persian rugs
[01:00.97] Equations are drawn up in paisley form
[01:03.21] Mic it stay warm, my flow is Evian
[01:05.76] Deep as a Nautilus, you stay dipped in Ra style
[01:08.68] From the shores of Long Island to Panama Canal
[01:11.00] Intellect pitches new trends like a clothes designer
[01:13.57] I'm in effect, quicker than medicines in China
[01:16.40] Split the mic open fill it with somethin potent to go in
[01:19.03] And take a toke then, mental planes start floatin
[01:21.71] Hot science is smokin altitudes cause chokin
[01:24.01] Product is hypnotic you're soakin and still smokin
[01:26.48] Showin better scenes than grams of amphetamines
[01:29.00] Plans to scheme, means I'll forever fiend
[01:31.45] Long as the mic is loud and the volume is pumpin
[01:34.35] I'ma move crowds to 2000
[01:47.55] Yo, my rhymes and lyrics, find spirits like a seance
[01:49.65] Since fat Cray-ons, I write and display chaos
[01:52.08] My plan is damage, the diagram to where the jam
[01:54.62] I take advantage, until the crowd go bananas
[01:57.32] What a rush I hear cuts then I lust to touch
[01:59.83] Microphones get clutched by the illustrious
[02:02.28] Word spread I inherited, many ways to say the unsaid
[02:05.63] Born with three 7's in my head
[02:07.40] In time no one can seem to blow your mind as far as this
[02:09.83] To find you'll need philosophers and anthropologists
[02:12.23] Astrologists, professors from your smartest colleges
[02:15.38] With knowledge of scholarships, when Ra be droppin this
[02:17.67] Some of the things I know, will be in your next Bible
[02:20.05] When I die go bury me and my notebook in Cairo
[02:22.49] With the great God from Egypt manifest was write rhymes
[02:25.44] Align with the stars, I come back to bless the mic
[02:27.67] "Once again, back is the incredible"
[02:49.46] Word up, Rakim Allah the Microphone Fiend is back, yaknahmean?
[03:06.75] "Rakim Allah"
[03:08.33] Till death do us part
[03:09.25] "Once again, back is the incredible"
[03:10.14] It's on
[03:10.90] "Rakim Allah"
[03:11.46] "Once again back is the incredible
[03:12.17] The incredible, the incredible
[03:12.81] The incredible...
[03:13.48] Once again back is the incredible
[03:14.25] Rhyme animal, the incredible..."
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