Rakim - I Know (Album Version (Explicit))(1999)

[00:05.15] Aye yo, who's the most explosive one yet?
[00:06.95] The a roundest one left
[00:08.45] Who flows express to them rhythm drum set ain't done yet?
[00:11.28] Flow like a trumpet to your eardrum are deaf
[00:14.22] Who pose a threat?
[00:15.42] Yo, who's more ferocious, none yet
[00:17.23] To the night damn set mic trends and life ends
[00:20.08] In sight, I see the whole world through a tight lens
[00:22.93] Rhymes I write wins and kept a white Benz
[00:26.00] Spend G's like hundreds and hundreds like tens
[00:28.72] I get paid, Black, but laid back with mild manners
[00:31.63] When I flip it's the opposite of dark Bruce Banner
[00:34.68] Out the lab with soul and melodies in your ear
[00:37.47] And just when it all seem clear I disappear
[00:40.35] All you gotta do is holler
[00:41.99] Reappear like vol-la the street scholar
[00:44.73] I'm 40 deep like Ali Baba
[00:46.37] Give the mamas somethin' to talk about in the beauty parlor
[00:49.26] Keep it hot like lava, yeah
[00:51.45] It's Rakim Allah
[00:52.63] I know you find it hard to believe that
[00:55.35] I am the genie of the mic an
[00:58.44] I can do anything you wish but
[01:01.20] Right now I'm commandin' you to dance
[01:03.76] Ready to dance y'all, my magic carpet's the dance floor
[01:06.77] Last chance y'all even if you can't ball
[01:09.52] What part don't you understand? Your wish is my command
[01:12.28] And I'm a rock a jam by popular demand
[01:15.35] You gone love this, it's marvelous, baby
[01:18.21] It gotta thug's twist, it start to get crazy
[01:21.04] It's off the meat rack, I can't keep my peeps back
[01:23.91] I speak raps and I freak tracks for these cats
[01:26.97] I got a fetish for puttin' together words and letters
[01:29.89] It ain't all about the cheddars and y'all know where my head is
[01:32.89] Ghetto scriptures for my little brothers and sisters
[01:35.69] And still get vicious for the thugs and the Misses
[01:38.72] What I don't do is talk about the same old thing
[01:41.53] When I come through, I drop it, and they gone swing
[01:44.38] I bring the ladies joy until' they make crazy noise
[01:47.45] 'Cuz the beat's bangin', I'm born to blaze, baby boy
[01:50.14] I know, you find it hard to believe that
[01:53.40] I am the genie of the mic an
[01:57.09] I can do anything you wish but
[01:59.12] Right now I'm commanding you to dance
[02:01.98] I know, you find it hard to believe that
[02:05.35] I am the genie of the mic an
[02:08.32] I can do anything you wish but
[02:11.32] Right now I'm commanding you to dance
[02:13.63] The editor-forever more the predator, I said it all
[02:16.79] I spread a war, like never before
[02:19.47] Spit lead at yours like a ghetto Braud raw at a?
[02:22.35] She'll never pause with raw metaphors, I set it off
[02:25.24] But I just begun the best is yet to come
[02:28.01] Blessed with a majestic tongue since I was young
[02:31.15] But I was stressed for funds and obsessed with guns
[02:33.90] Test the one, let Allah protect your son
[02:36.88] 'Cause somethin' musical magician, the ageiathic author
[02:39.96] The microphone magician when I have a magic marker, a mentor
[02:43.28] You can explore, every sentence is a tour
[02:45.64] The inventor is more than adventure
[02:48.58] You'll be blown away and a zone to play
[02:51.42] It's so ill, I still grab the microphone and say
[02:54.15] One of my own displays like I'm known to blaze
[02:57.36] And I bet rhyme pays until I'm old and gray
[03:00.21] I know you find it hard to believe that
[03:03.45] I am the genie of the mic an
[03:06.55] I can do anything you wish but
[03:09.33] Right now I'm commanding you to dance
[03:11.88] I know you find it hard to believe that
[03:15.14] I am the genie of the mic an
[03:18.19] I can do anything you wish but
[03:21.02] Right now I'm commanding you to dance
[03:23.44] I know you find it hard to believe that
[03:26.78] I am the genie of the mic an
[03:29.95] I can do anything you wish but
[03:32.73] Right now I'm commanding you to dance
[03:35.23] I know you find it hard to believe that
[03:38.48] I am the genie of the mic an
[03:41.35] I can do anything you wish but
[03:44.35] Right now I'm commanding you to dance
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