[00:22.97]I came in the door, I said it before
[00:25.42]I never let the mic magnatize me no more
[00:27.83]But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme
[00:30.44]I can't hold it back I'm looking for the line
[00:32.98]Taking off my coat clearing my throat
[00:35.39]The rhyme will be kicking it until I hit my last note
[00:38.05]My mind'll range to find all kinds of ideas
[00:40.36]Self esteem makes it seem like a thought took years to build
[00:43.12]But still say a rhyme after the next one
[00:45.71]Prepared, never scared, I'll just bless one
[00:48.10]And you know that I'm the soloist
[00:50.04]So Eric B, make 'em clap to this
[00:53.46]Clap yo hands..clap..clap yo..
[01:02.64]I don't bug out or chill or be acting ill
[01:05.13]No tricks in '86, it's time to build
[01:07.47]Eric B easy on the cut, no mistakes allowed
[01:09.94]'Cause to me, MC means move the crowd
[01:12.50]I made it easy to dance to this
[01:14.42]But can you detect what's coming next from the flex of the wrist?
[01:17.67]Saying indeed then I precede 'cause my man made a mix
[01:20.03]If he bleed he won't need no band-aid to fix
[01:22.54]If they can get some around until there's no rhymes left
[01:24.94]I hurry up because the cut will make 'em bleed to death
[01:27.39]He's kicking it because it ain't no half stepping
[01:29.83]The party is live, the rhyme can't be kept inside
[01:33.03]It needs erupting just like a volcano
[01:35.17]It ain't the everyday style of the same old rhyme
[01:38.02]Because I'm better then the rest of them
[01:39.90]Eric B is on the cut and my name is Rakim
[01:52.02]Go get a girl and get soft and warm
[01:54.24]Don't get excited, you've been invited to a quiet storm
[01:57.14]But now it's out of hand 'cause you told me you hate me
[02:00.09]And then you ask what have I done lately
[02:02.47]First you said, "All you want is love and affection"
[02:04.86]Let me be your angel and I'll be your protection
[02:07.37]Take you out, buy you all kinds of things
[02:09.57]Cause that must got yo do hot, and burst off your wings
[02:12.14]You caught an attitude, you need food to eat up
[02:14.81]I'm scheming like I'm dreaming on a couch on my feet up
[02:17.30]You scream I'm lazy, you must be crazy
[02:19.75]Thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me