Rakim - The 18th Letter (Always And Forever)(1997)

[00:00.49] What? Uh, yo
[00:02.46] Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame
[00:05.26] I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains 'til things change
[00:08.25] They strain to slang sling, I'm trained to bring game
[00:11.31] History that I arranged been regained by King James
[00:14.27] Go to practice, with tactics, when the track hits, theatrics
[00:17.31] Women that look like actress the status of Cleopatra's
[00:20.22] Stacks of mathematics took the ego-a-geatics?
[00:23.04] As I find out, what the facts is, for geographic
[00:25.64] No time to sip Mo's with hostess, never mind what the total gross is
[00:29.11] I rip shows, stay focused, and split cheese, with soldiers
[00:32.06] While you hit trees and coast I spit flows that be ferocious
[00:34.99] And with these explosives, I split seas for Moses
[00:37.94] Shine permanently only my mind's concernin' me
[00:40.56] Fire burns in me eternally time's eternity
[00:43.55] Followers turn on me they'll be in a mental infirmary
[00:46.49] Determinely advance technology better than Germany
[00:49.52] Since the first days you know of, 'til the last days is over
[00:52.46] I was always the flow-er, I made waves for Noah
[00:55.47] From a compound, to the anatomy, to the breakdown of a atom
[00:58.35] Some of my rap patterns, still surround Saturn
[01:01.16] From the ancient Hieroglyphics, to graffiti painted pictures
[01:04.00] I study I know the scriptures but nowadays ain't it vicious
[01:06.87] Date back I go beyond check the holy Qu'ran
[01:09.83] To speeches at the altar on, now we get our party on
[01:12.90] So being beneficent, I bless 'em with dialogue
[01:15.87] They expectin', the next testament by the God
[01:18.76] I blow 'em through battlezones with chrome for chaperone
[01:21.72] Blast beats with saxophones one of the baddest rapper's known
[01:24.50] Every country city and borough, sidestreet and ghetto
[01:27.65] Isle and alley and meadow theories ferile enough to echo
[01:30.51] When it was one mass of land, with one nash' of man
[01:33.47] And the whole mass was ran under one master plan
[01:36.31] Since the world's metamorphis, and the plan is kept in orbit
[01:39.46] Turntables we spin off but the needles never skip off it
[01:42.38] Rhythms we expressin' similar to our ancestors
[01:45.29] It'll answer your questions if you understand the message
[01:48.17] From the days of the slave choppers? To the new age of prophets
[01:51.00] As heavy as hip-hop is I'm always ready to drop it
[01:54.03] From the mind which is one of Allah's best designs
[01:57.11] And mines will stand the test of time, when I rhyme
[01:59.81] The 18th Letter, the prophecy professor
[02:02.88] I stay clever, long as the planet stay together
[02:05.80] Bring up praise from Mecca, make a phrase for the better
[02:08.75] In new days to remember, always and forever
[02:11.55] The 18th Letter, the prophecy professor
[02:14.45] I stay clever, long as the planet stay together
[02:17.55] Bring up praise from Mecca, make a phrase for the better
[02:20.38] In new days to remember, always and forever
[02:23.32] The R baby
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