He breaks me down He builds me up He fills my cup I like it rough We fuss, we brawl We rise, we fall He comes in vain But it's okay We do, I do He knows the r...

he breaks, me down he buils, me up he fills, my cup I like, it rough we fuss, we brawl we rise, we fall he comes in late, but its ok he do, i do he knows the ...

(Chanting) He breaks me down, He builds me up He fills my cup, I like it rough We cuss, we ball, We rise, we fall He comes in late, But it's okay We do, I do, ...

Chorus 2x: Do You Ever Think What Life Would Be Where You Will Go After you Die? Verse 1: Do you ever sit back and get a little too high, start thinking what h...

(1st verse) I'm back! The god remains, still at the end They sabotage the game, still I'm a win Rakim Allah's the name, and with a pen No one can dodge the rai...

Knowledge will begin until I finish this song 'Cuz the rhyme gets rougher as the rhyme goes on You sweat as you step about to get hype Or should you just listen...

Casualties of War! Casualties of war; as I approach the barricade Where's the enemy? Who do I invade? Bullets of Teflon, bulletproof vest rip Tear ya outta ya...

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...

Bob Marley: Even the spiritual environment, igher divinity, Rastaman dilution which is like earth create, because the earth come back from what it wants, Someon...

Hoy e despertao, Acariciando la noticia De que tu no volveras Desorientao Dando vueltas en mi cama Pensando si me amas, Yo, que te amao, Como nadie Como loco Am...

I came in the door, i said it before I never let the mic magnatize me no more But it's biting me, fighting me, inviting me to rhyme I can't hold it back, I'm l...

Where the ladies at? Clarkworld baby Uh, uh (4x) It's the R baby It's the god baby (1st verse) I got rhymes I love to bust looking for a club to rush It's l...

[Rakim] Aiyyo what's goin on? The Mic Lebanon Teflon Don I'm back baby The year of the 9's and I'ma have to make these motherfuckers a offer they can't refuse ...

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...

"Once again back is the incredible"(Chuck D) Yeah, yeah It's the return of the Wild Style fashionist Smashin hits, make it hard to adapt to this Put pizazz and ...

(Take that microphone from that kid and heat it up) I keep the mic hot, I heat it up kid I keep the mic hot, I heat it up (x2) Mic check y'all Then throw it t...

I ain't no joke, I used to let the mic smoke Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke When i'm gone no one gets on 'cause I won't let Nobody press u...

(Keep you goin' when i'm flowin' smooth enough) Yes Yes Y'all, i still fiend by any means a flow and i go through extremes don't intervene my adventures show l...

(1st verse) Aye yo, who's the most explosive one yet? The a roundest one left Who flows express to them rhythm drum set ain't done yet? Flow like a trumpet to ...

It's been a long time, I shouldn't have left you Without a strong rhyme to step to Think of how many weak shows you slept through Time's up, I'm sorry I kept yo...

(Chorus) I will always be there I always be there for you I will always be there I'll be there (1st verse) I'm bout to meet my comrade on the busy Ave where ...

(Canibus) Yeah, I bust 'em you punish 'em (Canibus) Yeahlet me bust 'em (Rakim) Naw, I'ma punish 'em (Canibus) Ra, let me bust 'em (Rakim) Naw, I'ma punish...

Planet Earth was my place of birth Born to be the sole controller of the universe Besides the part of the map I hit first Any environment I can adapt when it ge...

(1st verse) If I lay low and let the day go it'll slow my payroll Aye-yo I'm a terrorize charge and slay shows Ra slay flows go as far as the Barbados On the t...

{DJ Premier cuts early Eric B & Rakim records} "It's been a long time" "It's been a long time" "It's been a long time" "It's been a long time" " Rakim, the micr...

(1st verse) Aye yo it's mr low-key you need to go see The host by far a mostly ot, with a brand new show but You know how the flow be Cause when I swerve, you ...

* - originally appeared on the juice sndtrk Sip the juice cuz i got enough to go around, And the thought takes place uptown I grew up on the sidewalk where i l...

Let the rhythm hit 'em I'm the arsenal I got artillery, lyrics of ammo Rounds of rhythm Then I'm 'a give 'em piano Bring a bullet-proof vest Nothin' to ricoche...

In the city where life is animated with colors Contaminated with aggravated brothers, who knows where the love is? Growing up swinging, through my upbringing My...

Verse one: I'm rated "R"this is a warning, ya better void, Poets are paranoid, DJ's D-stroyed, Cuz I came back to attack others in spite- Strike like lightnin'...

Verse One: Me and Eric B was coolin' at the Paladium Seen a all-world covered girl, I said "Hey lady I'm Sorry if You're in a rush - Don't let me hold ya up Or ...

I was a fiend before I became a teen I melted microphone instead of cones of ice cream Music orientated so when hip-hop was originated Fitted like pieces of puz...

Verse one: Standing by the speaker, suddenly I had this Fever, was it me or either summer madness Cuz I just can't stand around So I get closer and the closer ...

Barrington Levy: Unoheal, Unoheal (Rock a bet) Murderer (4x) Rakim: Who want low boats of keys from overseas Then put it in the streets and spread like a disea...

Verse One: Turn up the bass, check out my melody, hand out a cigar I'm lettin knowledge be born, and my name's the R A-k-i-m not like the rest of them, I'm not ...

Intro/Chorus: If you can see if you can solve the mystery The answer revolves around your history So carefully, I drop this degree Scientifically, and realisti...

[from the movie _wildstyle_ If you was born in new york city let me hear say "you know that"! You know that Aiyyo, once upon a rhyme where the scenery sets, y...

No competition Competition is none, I remain at the top like the sun And I burn whoever come in the chambers of torture I caught ya, you shoulda brought ya Nei...

I'm the Alpha, with no Omega Beginning without the, end so play the eye inside, no extended version Next episode be smooth as a Persian Rhyme everlastin, there'...

[interviewer, possibly harry allen] What is, the one, main thing that you have That you would want people to remember you by? Or not one but the, those things ...

[Eric B]: Yo Rakim, what's up? [Rakim]: Yo, I'm doing the knowledge, E, I'm trying to get paid in full [E]: Well, check this out, since Nobry Walters is our age...

Pass the hand grenade It's gonna blow 'cause I took out the pin Detach the detonator, data send Programmed wit protons, eqipped wit predicates Electrons and ele...

Eric B] "Clap your hands" cut and scratched 6X [Rakim] Put your hands together clap your hands Verse One: Rakim This is for thousands of people who came A sh...

Ra! (*repeat 7X*) [Chorus: repeat 2X] R: Rugged and rough that's how I do it A: Allah who I praise to the fullest K: Keep it moving, I: Stand alone M: It's my...

Rakh (x8) Chorus (x2) Rugged and rough thats how I do it Allah, who i praise to the fullest Keep it movin' Stand alone Its my crown, my world, my throne Ve...

Yeah It's the paragraph ambassador The wild style fashioner It's the god Rakim, the master Feel this (1st verse) This is that lost ass track off-the-rack kind...

My styles will move I'm calm but deadly, heat up but cool I'm rough as a right hook but still look smooth Even when I'm unseen, I show and prove Women, I give '...

Remember that? Turn the beat up, I get lost in the mind come across the rhyme kick my feet up, then I find myself in time I was on a train, destination Marley ...

Yeah check it out show me love Promise you won't do me wrong (for sure) If I turn you on (yeah) Promise you'll stay all night long (on on) Makin love til dawn ...

Rakim Clark Kent bring it on What you wanna say to make me stay awhile What you wanna say to make me wanna stay (repeat 2X) Just me and my peeps we gettin buz...

[Rakim] One two Yeah uhh yeah "Rough enough to break New York from Long Island" -> My Melody Yeah it's the God baby Long Island's own barbarian of the microph...

Rakim: Calling all rugrats (3x) Please come in rugrats Take it to the maximum Take it to the max (8x) Rakim: All in together lets make a game We can all win if ...

No more time to pass time 'cause these are the last rhymes, 'Cause we're living in the last times They wanna go to war, more wars to come But most of us fight m...

What, uhh, yo Just when things seemed the same, and the whole scene is lame I come and reign with the unexplained for the brains till things change They strain ...

* also appears on _the militia remix_ 12" and the belly soundtrack "a special guest" "it's the militia it's the militia" [guru] This is a conquest, so i sug...

Kill him again! Try to identufy the man in front of ya But it ain't the role, the gear, or the money, the swift intellectionist with pleny, ya bite, if it's da...

*singing* Ahhhh, ahhhh, ahhhh *whistle* "Ghetto Music" --> KRS-One (here we go) "Yo" --> Mobb Deep "And my name is Rakim" --> The R (repeat 5X) Yo, the saga b...

track #3 It feel good, ya knahmean? To uhh, come back and and get embraced That's that's like the best part y'know? Bein bein gone for a while y'know Walk thro...

It's to the listeners (whispered 4X) *musical interlude* It's to the listener (repeat interlude and line 4X) Verse One: Rakim It's to the listeners, for thos...

(1st verse) Levantore! Yeah, it's just ghetto, kid test the devil to hit the next level Wish they was a rebel with cerebral metal Inflex the bezzle with the pe...

[Rakim] Yeah, it's the god Rakim Word up, I'm blazin this out to all my comrades Yanamean? From the slums of New York, to the gutters all over the world This i...

featuring Connie McKendrick yeah (it don't stop) yeah check it out (it don't stop) come on CHORUS we love to flirt to chase the skirts get to know who we are ...

[DJ Premier scratches hook] (Hardcorereal ill niggas) (I'm internationally known) (When I be on the mic) (Hardcorereal ill niggas) (I'm internationally known,...

Yes yes y'all, check it out y'all (repeat 2X) Chorus: Rakim (Yo) I find a show, rhyme til it's time to go I'm designed to blow, my mind's inclined to flow Yo...