Don't Sweat The Technique

Eric B. & Rakim

Don't sweat the Technique(2x)




Let's trace the hints and check the file



Let see who bit to detect the style



I flip the script so they can't get foul.



At least not now it'll take a while



I change the pace to complete the beat



I drop the bass 'till mc's get weak.



For every word they trace it's a scar they keep...



'Cause when I speak they freak



To sweat the technique



I made my debut in '86



Wit a melody and a president's mix



And now I stay on target and refuse to miss



And I still make hits



wit' beats, parties, clubs, in the cars and jeeps



My underground sound vibrates the streets



MC's wanna beef then I play for keeps



When they sweat the technique




Don't Sweat the Technique




They wanna know how many rhymes have I ripped in rep., but



Researchers never found all the pieces yet



Scientists try to solve the context



Philosophers are wondering what's next



Pieces are took to last who observe them



They couldn't absorb them, they didn't deserve them



My ideas are only for the audience's ears



For my opponents, it might take years



Pencils and pens, are swords



Letters put together form a key to chords



I'm also a sculpture, born with structure



Because of my culture, I'm a rip and destruct the



Difficult styles that'll be for the technology



Complete sights and new heights after I get deep



You don't have to speak just seek



And peep the technique




But don't sweat the technique




I speak indiscreet cause talk is cheap



Then I get deep and the weak then complete their



Pull with a seat, never weak or obsolete



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