Follow The Leader - Eric B. & Rakim
Verse One: Follow me into a solo Get in the flow and you can picture like a photo Music mixed mellow maintains to make Melodies for MC's motivates the breaks I'm everlastin I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard FLIP IT Now it's a daily word I can get iller than 'Nam a killin bomb But no alarm Rakim will remain calm Self-esteem make me super superb and supreme But for a microphone still I fiend This was a tape I wasn't supposed to break I was supposed to wait, but let's motivate I want to see who can keep followin and swallowin Takin the making, bitin it and borrowin Brothers tried and others died to get the formula But I'ma let ya sweat - you still ain't warm You a step away from frozen, stiff as if ya posin Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen So follow me and were ya thinkin' you were first? Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe What could ya say as the Earth gets further and further away Planets are small as balls of clay Astray into the Milky Way - world's outasight Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite Now stop and turn around and look As ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took! So keep starin soon ya suddenly see a star You better follow it cause it's the R This is a lesson if ya guessin and if ya borrowin Hurry hurry step right up and keep followin The Leader Verse Two: This is a lifetime mission, vision of prison Aight listen In this journey you're the journal I'm the journalist Am I Eternal? Or an eternalist? I'
Artist: Eric B. & Rakim
Title: Follow The Leader