Follow The Leader - Eric B. & Rakim.mp3

[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