Follow The Leader

Eric B. & Rakim

Verse One:




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?



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