[Intro: Rakim]
Yeah (allowed it)
Guess who (Raahaaaah)
Uhh, Ayatollah (allowed it)
From the song (Raaah)
[Verse 1: Rakim]
Let the games begin, it`s nothing but pain for them
I - don`t - play - I - win
I got plain again that`s why I came again
It`s the R-A-K-I-M
Come through in a by, lean low like I`m doin a crime
Empty ya nines and bend in the dime
Thoughts hard to find that`s why I got `em losin they mind
I`m bettin rhymes, til the end of times
Shame on some, can`t wait til the fame is done
You can curse if you pray for the day to come
Stay with the gun, stay in the slum, stay number 1
To the day the earth drift away from the sun
I meditate and let the ancient spirits speak through the pen
So every word I display a true or a gem, or holdin the grim
Still shootin two in ya men
If you think the world`s greatest can`t do it again
[Chorus](4x)
There`s a cold, cold feeling in my heart
[Verse 2: Rakim]
Yo, in the life for thuggin, we like to get high from puffin
Forty-five is bustin, like live percussion
Will them thighs be bobbin
That`s why we try to stay alive in hustlin
But some of us die for nothing
Try to clock on the block, that`s horn it with boats on it
With Ghetto Legends to America`s Most Wanted
Lost souls in the crossroads of sidewalk
Life is soft when you live and die in New York
You`ve been wrong before
You`ll be missin til your picture`s on the wall
On the side of a corner store
Either flowin on tour, or goin to war
I was born to ball what the fuck is wrong wit y`all
I wrote the scripture
My lyrics just spoken with a flow
There`s no vision whole hit in the motion picture
Watchin the style you see +Apocalypse Now+
And you can feel what I feel when I`m rockin the crowd
[Chorus]
[Verse 3: Rakim]
From beyond the stars, it`s the fiend Rah
With a God`s spoon to bomb my 16 bars
So when they aks why you grievin huh
Doin my shit ain`t bizar
Tell `em you just seen God
Broads is panick cause Black Jesus is track divas
And packin fiend it`s just like heaters, causin panick
Although I`m organic, my rap reaches to where the track
Devious speakers Ra`s off the planet
Focus and click I`m unseen so you hope it`s a glimpse
Foto reflexes of Total Eclipse
I put the world in a state of a let-up
The way I`m puttin in work
Yo, stay out the way or get hurt
As I mastercrash that allow me to stash the cash
This is the shit, they don`t have to blast
So grab your glass, and your grass, and your hash
Cause this is just the beginning of the Aftermath
[Chorus]
No doubt
Word
Thug Baby
New York City
