I Ain't No Joke-Eric B. & Rakim

[ti:I Ain't No Joke] [ar:Eric B. & Rakim] [al:The 100 Best HipHop Songs Ever] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.41]I Ain't No Joke - Eric B. & Rakim [00:02.23]Written by：Eric Barrier/William Griffin [00:03.71] [00:09.07]I ain't no joke I used to let the mic smoke [00:11.43]Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke [00:13.87]When I'm gone no one gets on cause I won't let [00:16.29]Nobody press up and mess up the scene I set [00:18.38]I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder damn [00:21.36]But think about it then you'll understand [00:23.60]I'm just an addict addicted to music [00:25.63]Maybe it's a habit I gotta use it [00:27.91]Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm [00:29.95]I hook a beat up convert it into hip hop form [00:32.34]Write a rhyme in graffiti in every show you see me in [00:35.05]Deep concentration cause I'm no comedian [00:36.99]Jokers are wild if you wanna be tamed [00:39.15]I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named [00:41.78]Another enemy not even a friend of me [00:44.07]Cause you'll get fried in the end when you pretend to be [00:46.51]Competing cause I just put your mind on pause [00:48.35]And I can beat you when you compare my rhyme with yours [00:50.88]I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned [00:53.48]Remember me the one you got your idea from [00:55.16]But soon you start to suffer the tune'll get rougher [00:57.57]When you start to stutter that's when you had enough of [01:00.18]Biting it will make you choke you can't provoke [01:02.30]You can't cope you should have broke [01:03.84]Because I ain't no joke [01:05.12] [01:23.03]I got a question as serious as cancer [01:25.36] [01:26.18]Who can keep the average dancer [01:27.60]Hyper as a heart attack nobody smiling [01:29.94]Cause you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling [01:32.28]This is what we all sit down to write [01:34.38]You can't make it so you take it home break it and bite [01:36.81]Use pieces and bits of all the hip hop hits [01:38.94]Get the style down pat then it's time to switch [01:41.22]Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours [01:43.57]Then you figure you're ready for the neighborhood tours [01:45.92]The E-M-C-E-E don't even try to be [01:48.47]When you come up to speak don't even lie to me [01:50.77]You like to exaggerate dream and imaginate [01:53.00]Then change the rhyme around that can aggravate me [01:55.89]So when you see me come up freeze [01:57.58]Or you'll be one of those seven emcees [02:00.03]They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that [02:02.39]They who think wrong are they who can't do that [02:04.39]Style that I'm doing they might ruin [02:07.03]Patterns of paragraphs based on you and [02:09.12]Your offbeat DJ if anything he play [02:11.64]Sound familiar I'll wait til E say [02:13.78]Play 'em so I'm a have to dis and broke [02:16.17]You could get a smack for this [02:17.76]I ain't no joke [02:18.77] [02:37.09]I hold the microphone like a grudge [02:39.23]B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge [02:41.43]I hold a conversation cause when I invent [02:43.50]I nominated my DJ the president [02:45.83]When I emcee I'll keep a freestyle going steadily [02:48.38]So pucker up and whistle my melody [02:50.75]But whatever you do don't miss one [02:52.91]There'll be another rough rhyme after this one [02:55.33]Before you know it you're following and fending [02:57.44]Waiting for the punchline to get the meaning [02:59.55]Like before the middle of my story I'm telling [03:01.97]Nobody beats the R so stop yelling [03:04.36]Save it put it in your pocket for later [03:06.47]Cause I'm moving the crowd and be a record fader [03:09.03]No interruptions and the mic is broke [03:11.12]When I'm gone then you can joke [03:13.71]Cause everything is real on a serious tip [03:15.68]Keep playing and I get furious quick [03:17.81]And I'll take you for a walk through hell [03:20.08]Freeze your dome then watch your eyeballs swell [03:22.86]Guide you out of triple stage darkness [03:24.87]When it get dark again then I'm a spark this [03:27.45]Microphone cause the heat is on you see smoke [03:29.98]And I'm finished when the beat is gone [03:31.65]I'm no joke