This is poetry in Try to catch on, stay close to the And try to make the road rough but I'm coastin' Ladies hear the rub 'em on like lotion
Hit spots soothin', can't movin' Go ahead, a sweat and you can bet I'm still coolin' When I detain a brainstorm Never the same form, every I rained on is warm
a trip through Memory Lane to Melody See if you could tell if these thoughts to fell Could do you justice but you can't touch Some kid just tried to bust this but he missed
I'm universal and much merciful So versatile with the style reversible I get even if I say a curse or two First, let me bust verse for you
Your arms too to box with Ra, so quit You want no kind of conflict Or you'll get as the rhyme is ripped Pick up the now ain't that peace, yeah I'm hip
Everything I flows since my intro I a thought extend and then grow Holdin' my pen tightly it might be controversy at I write the chords of research
Don't just it for granted When I'm gone my remains a planet If I buildin' and teach the children So when they read in between the lines filled in
I break to meditate, not a peep, Till I'm awake but not asleep At the same risin' and advertisin' what is true Keep advised and you can stay wise and I'm
Comin' over the bridge, take a at the skyline 'Cause that's how I not only when I rhyme My culture's me stronger, mentally Physically I'm poetry now that could be
Labeled as art placed in a Style'll scenery, now you see 'em Exhibit a that's packed and filled with Nothin' illiterate, it's facts I with
My untouchable which means intangible Contents never dense, it's I study life, so I can live it the way No time to what another brother might say
Why sell a capsule of crack I don't to? I and sign million dollar contracts to Put message on that's graced with hard bass Smugglin' microphones, this ain't
Whoever talked talk, I wanna hawk And don't try to 'Escape From New Cross a 110th lookin' for a problem It's 'Hell Up In Harlem', Ra solve 'em
I hear the music as I get near The hundred and fifth street Apollo Theater Take a step when I rap I step up to you I'm
Put on my thinking cap the track your reflex relax but in contact You fold and lose control, so hold your partner supposed to keep your composure
But you the drum said go then it gets so hype It's nitro opponents get petro the trademark left by the R That's never or smooth, it's comin' off the hardest
In effect, you could the impostor Takin' my props, Rakim is proper I'm a prophet, you can't stop it I drop it Everything I say, with the topic
Thoughts bounce till my skull is fractured my brain it's all manufactured As we go deeper it's hard to Don't think about it 'cause you can't read my mind
It's clear so therefore you need a ear or In the mind with kind of idea for the style I'm advertisin' what is true, keep That you stay wise and the mind is