Follow The Leader-Eric B. & Rakim/Eric B. & Rakim

[ti:Follow The Leader] [ar:Eric B. & Rakim] [al:4 ALL AGES: Hip Hop Music] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Follow The Leader - Eric B. & Rakim [00:00.02]Lyrics by：William Griffin/Eric Barrier/Bob James [00:00.03]Composed by：William Griffin/Eric Barrier/Bob James [00:00.24]Rocking my stage [00:05.16]Rocking my stage [00:09.44]Rocking my stage [00:13.90]Rocking my stage [00:17.40]Follow the leader [00:18.28]Rocking my stage [00:21.79]Follow the leader [00:22.31]Rocking my stage [00:26.19]Follow the leader [00:26.75]Rocking my stage [00:27.40]Follow me into a solo get in the flow [00:29.97]And you can picture like a photo [00:31.52]Music mix mellow maintains to make [00:33.19]Melodies for emcees motivates the breaks [00:35.47]I'm everlasting I can go on for days and days [00:37.83]With rhyme displays that engrave deep as x-rays [00:40.12]I can take a phrase that's rarely heard [00:42.33]Flip it now it's a daily word [00:44.46]I can get iller than 'Nam I kill and bomb [00:46.61]But no alarm Rakim'll remain calm [00:49.20]Self-esteem makes me super superb and supreme [00:51.18]But for a microphone still I fiend [00:53.49]This was a tape I wasn't supposed to break [00:55.79]I was supposed to wait but let's motivate [00:57.87]I want to see you keep following and swallowing [01:00.08]Taking and making biting and borrowing [01:02.30]Brothers tried and others died to get the formula [01:04.43]But I'mma let you sweat you still ain't warm you a [01:06.34]Step away from frozen stiff as if you're posing [01:08.66]Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen [01:10.98]So follow me and while you're thinking you were first [01:12.68]Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the universe [01:15.30]What could you say as the Earth gets further and further away [01:17.99]Planets as small as balls of clay [01:19.57]Astray into the Milky Way worlds out of sight [01:21.76]Far as the eye can see not even a satellite [01:23.89]Now stop and turn around and look [01:25.97]As you stare in the darkness your knowledge is took [01:28.28]So keep staring soon you suddenly see a star [01:30.75]You better follow it 'cause it's the R [01:32.71]This is a lesson if you're guessing and if you're borrowing [01:34.79]Hurry hurry step right up and keep following the leader [01:38.35]Follow the leader [01:39.13]Rocking my stage [01:40.47]Follow the leader [01:41.13]Rocking my stage [01:42.70]Follow the leader [01:43.41]Rocking my stage [01:44.82]Follow the leader [01:45.73]Rocking my stage [01:47.06]Follow the leader [01:47.81]Rocking my stage [01:49.17]Follow the leader [01:49.89]Rocking my stage [01:51.36]Follow the leader [01:52.07]Rocking my stage [01:53.47]Follow the leader [01:54.40]This is a lifetime mission vision a prison [01:58.02]Aight listen [01:59.20]In this journey you're the journal I'm the journalist [02:01.32]Am I eternal or an eternalist [02:03.40]I'm about to flow long as I can possibly go [02:05.72]Keep you moving 'cause the crowd said so [02:07.57]Dance cuts rip your pants [02:09.52]Eric B on the blades bleeding to death call the ambulance [02:12.14]Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze [02:14.17]A magnum as a microphone murdering emcees [02:16.66]Let's quote a rhyme from a record I wrote [02:18.84]Follow the leader yeah d**e [02:20.87]'Cause every time I stop it seems you're stuck [02:22.88]As soon as you try to step off you self-destruct [02:24.93]I came to overcome before I'm gone [02:27.19]By showing and proving and letting knowledge be born [02:29.65]Then after that I live forever you disagree [02:31.89]You say never then follow me [02:33.80]From century to century you'll remember me [02:35.89]In history not a mystery or a memory [02:38.32]God by nature mind raised in Asia [02:40.56]Since you was tricked I have to raise ya [02:42.86]From the cradle to the grave [02:44.55]But remember you're not a slave [02:46.78]'Cause we was put here to be much more than that [02:49.03]But we couldn't see because our mind was trapped [02:51.31]But I'm here to break away the chains take away the pains [02:53.85]Remake the brains rebuild my name [02:55.66]I guess nobody told you a little knowledge is dangerous [02:57.97]It can't be mixed diluted it can't be changed or switched [03:00.26]Here's a lesson if you're guessing and borrowing [03:02.33]Hurry hurry step right up and keep following the leader [03:05.68]Follow the leader [03:06.38]Rocking my stage [03:07.85]Follow the leader [03:08.58]Rocking my stage [03:10.09]Follow the leader [03:10.81]Rocking my stage [03:12.18]Follow the leader [03:12.96]Rocking my stage [03:14.48]Follow the leader [03:15.25]Rocking my stage [03:16.61]Follow the leader [03:17.37]Rocking my stage [03:18.82]Follow the leader [03:19.56]Rocking my stage [03:20.86]Follow the leader [03:21.84]A furified freestyle lyrics of fury [03:24.33]My third eye make me shine like jewelry [03:26.37]You're just a rent a rapper your rhymes are minute maid [03:28.28]I'll be here when it fade [03:29.38]I'll watch you flip like a renegade [03:30.78]I can't wait to break and eliminate [03:33.08]On every traitor or snake so stay awake [03:35.11]And follow and follow because the tempo's a trail [03:37.28]The stage is a cage the mic is a third rail [03:39.52]I'm Rakim the fiend of a microphone [03:41.78]I'm not him so leave my mic alone [03:43.60]Soon as the beat is felt I'm ready to go [03:45.92]So fasten your seatbelt 'cause I'm about to flow [03:48.29]No need to speed slow down and let the leader lead [03:50.61]Word to daddy indeed [03:52.34]The R's a rolling stone so I'm rolling [03:54.75]Directions is told then the rhymes are stolen [03:56.85]Stop buggin' a brother said dig him I never dug him [03:58.82]He couldn't follow the leader long enough so I drug him [04:01.46]Into danger zone he should arrange his own [04:03.62]Face it it's basic erase it change your tone [04:05.87]There's one R in the alphabet [04:07.65]It's a one letter word and it's about to get [04:10.03]More complex from one rhyme to the next [04:12.45]Eric B be easy on the flex [04:14.37]I've been from state to state followers tailgate [04:16.46]Keep coming but you came too late but I'll wait [04:18.63]So back up regroup get a grip come equipped [04:20.84]You're the next contestant clap your hands you won a trip [04:23.14]The price is right don't make a deal too soon [04:25.33]How many notes can you name this tune [04:27.50]Follow the leader is a title theme task [04:29.82]Now you know you don't have to ask [04:31.72]Rap is rhythm and poetry cuts create sound effects [04:34.25]You might catch up if you follow the records E wrecks [04:36.40]Until then keep eating and swallowing [04:38.40]You better take a deep breath and keep following the leader [04:41.82]Follow the leader [04:42.62]Rocking my stage [04:44.02]Follow the leader [04:45.00]Rocking my stage [04:46.20]Follow the leader [04:46.89]Rocking my stage [04:48.38]Follow the leader [04:49.03]Rocking my stage [04:50.60]Follow the leader [04:51.28]Rocking my stage 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