Eric B. & Rakim

This is poetry in motion
Try to catch on, stay close to the host
and MCs try to make the road rough but Im coastin
Ladies hear the rhymes rub em on like lotion
Hit spots soothin, cant stop movin
Go ahead bust a sweat and you can bet Im still coolin
When I detain its a brainstorm
never the same form, every brain I rained on is warm
Takin a trip through Memory Lane to Melody
See if you could tell if these thoughts to fell MCs
could do you justice, but you cant touch this
Some kid just tried to bust this but he just missed
Im universal and much more merciful
So versatile with the style its reversable
I get away even if I say a curse or two
First, let me bust another verse for you
Your arms too short to box with Ra so quit
You dont want no kind of conflict
Or youll get stripped as the rhyme is ripped
Pick up the pieces now aint that peace yeah Im hip
Everything I said flows since my intro
I plant a thought extend and then grow
Holdin my pen tightly it might be
Controversy at first when I write the
chords of research dont just take it for granted
When Im gone my mind remains a planet
If I keep buildin, and teach the children
So when they read in between the lines its filled in
I break to meditate, not a peep, concentrate
till Im deep awake, but not asleep
At the same time risin and advertisin
what is true, keep advised and you can stay wise
and Im untouchable
Comin over the bridge take a peak at the skyline
Cause thats how I shine not only when I rhyme
My cultures makin me stronger, mentally
Physically Im powerful poetry now that could be
labelled as art placed in a museum
Stylell make scenery, now you see em
Exhibit a knowledge thats packed and filled with
nothin illiterate its facts I build with
My minds untouchable which means intangible
Contents never dense its understandable
I study life so I can live it the right way
No time to hear what another brother might say
Why sell a capsule of crack I dont have to
I rhyme and sign million dollar contracts to
put message on records thats graced with hard bass
Smugglin microphones, this aint Scarface
Whoever talked that talk, I wanna hawk
And dont try to Escape From New York
Cross a 110th Street lookin for a problem
Its Hell Up In Harlem, watch Ra solve em
I hear the music clear as I get near
the hundred and twenty fifth street Apollo Theater
Take a step back when I rap I step up to you...
Im untouchable
Put on my thinking cap pump the track
Test your reflex relax but in contact
you fold and lose control so hold your partner closer
youre supposed to keep your composure
But you hear the drum said go then it gets so hype
its like nitro opponents get petro
Remember the trademark left by the R
thats never soft or smooth its comin off the hardest
in effect, you could die-tect the imposter
Takin my props, Rakim is still proper
Im a prophet, you cant stop it, when I drop it
Everything I say, coincide with the topic
Thoughts bounce around till my skull is fractured
Inside my brain its all manufactured
As we go deeper its hard to find
Dont even think about it, cause you cant read my mind
Its clear so therefore you need a ear or inclined
in the mind with some kind of idea for
the style Im advertisin what is true
Keep advised that you stay wise and the mind
is untouchable
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