Eric B. and Rakim
Follow The Leader

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'm about to flow long as I can possibly go
Keep
ya movin cause the crowd said so
Dance - cuts rip ya pants

Eric B on the blades, bleedin to death - call the
ambulance
Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze
A
magnum as a microphone murderin' MC's
Let's
quote a rhyme from a record I wrote
(follow the leader)
Yeah - dope
Cause everytime I stop it seems ya stuck

Soon as ya try to step off ya self-destruct
I came to
overcome before I'm gone
By showin and provin and
lettin knowledge be born
Then after that I'll live
forever - you disagree?
You say never? Then follow me!

From century to century you'll remember me
In
history - not a mystery or a memory
God by nature, mind
raised in Asia
Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya

From the cradle to the grave, but remember
You're
not a slave
Cause we was put here to be much more than that

But we couldn't see it because our mind was trapped

But I'm here to break away the chains, take away the
pains
Remake the brains, reveal my name
I guess nobody
told you a little knowledge is dangerous
It can't be
mixed, diluted; it can't be changed or switched

Here's a lesson if ya guessing and borrowing

Hurry hurry, step right up and keep following
The
leader

Verse Three:

A furified freestyle,
lyrics of fury
My third eye makes me shine like jewelry

You're just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are
minute-maid
I'll be here when it fade to watch you
flip like a renegade
I can't wait to break and
eliminate
On every traitor or snake - so stay awake

and follow and follow, because the tempo's a trail

The stage is a cage, the mic is a third rail
I'm
Rakim the Fiend of a Microphone
I'm not HIM, so leave
my mic alone
Soon as the beat is felt, I'm ready to go

So fasten your seatbelt, cause I'm about to flow

No need to speed slow down to let the leader lead
Word
to daddy, indeed!
The R's a rollin stone, so I'm
rollin
Directions is told, then the rhymes are stolen

Stop buggin', a brother said, dig em, I never dug
'em
He couldn't follow the leader long enough so
I drug 'em
into danger zone, he should arrange his
own
Face it, it's basic, erase it, change ya
tone
There's one R in the alphabet
It's a
one-letter word and it's about to get
More complex
from one rhyme to the next
Eric B be easy on the flex

I've been from state to state, followers tailgate

Keep comin but you came too late, but I'll wait

So back up, regroup, get a grip, come equipped

You're the next contestant - clap ya hands, you won a
trip!
The price is right - don't make a deal too soon

How many notes could you name this tune?
Follow the
Leader is the title, theme, task
Now ya know, you
don't have to ask
Rap is Rhythm And Poetry, cuts
create sound effects
You might catch up if you follow the
records E. wrecks
Until then keep eatin and swallowin

You better take a deep breath and keep followin
The
leader.