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See if you can step to this
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Now try to do this step ("Back to the lab")
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and make sure the pace is kept
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and this ain't as smooth as I'ma get
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Nice and easy but hard to catch on to
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Move with melodies rhymes to respond to
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The mic's in front of me so you know it's gonna be
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rough and rugged plus I'm smooth as I wanna be
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I'm somethin like sippin on Dom Perignon
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So absorb the song, til the rhyme's all gone
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My beats and speech original, you can't find these
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Eighty-nine is mine, so is the nineties
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Tellin you what you need to know and more
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You're unsure? On tour, I explore
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From street to street, to speak, from beat after beat
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My cypher's complete, when I build with people I meet
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So here's the info straight from the source in fact
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Paid the cost to be the boss, STEP BACK
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give me room to exercise the mind
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Three-hundred and sixty degrees'll be fine
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The weight of the world is what we hold
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That's a six, followed by twenty-one zeroes
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Six ?? sums is a lot of weight
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My truth is the strength and my thought won't break
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What it take, concentration, to rebuild our
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nation but we got to have mind power
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And we can make it work, because I know we can
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And if somethin go wrong, make another plan
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It's up to us, so strive and be wise and
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when we reach the top, don't stop risin
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And I'll keep comin up with more of
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the most requested songs that you all love
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Reach out and touch the mic, take control
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Still gettin +Paid+ and I still got +Soul+
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And the only thing I ever wanted you to follow was poetry
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Mind takes X-rays, so listen closely
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From the darkness came the light, clear out of a dark night
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Now I'm here to spark the mic
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Send out truth, for other groups and substitutes
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with run-on rhymes and weak dubs and loops
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They'd rather hear the arsonist, they insist
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No need to reminisce, see if you can step to this
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Step back
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* Eric B. cuts up the phrase "Back to the lab" *
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* Eric B. cuts up the phrase
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"Back to the lab, without a mic to grab" *
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So just step
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* Eric B. cuts up the phrase "Back to the lab" *
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* Eric B. cuts up the phrase
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"Back to the lab, without a mic.." *
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Just step, the rhymes create energy
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Charged up, by the cut, and it's sendin me
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for a trip through the mind so I can locate
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a laid back rap at a slow rate
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It ain't hard at all, cause I invented it
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As the days go on, you hear them with it
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Brother bustin braincells, thinkin of a rap
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with the same old style, we had enough of that
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We all need somethin to step to
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And don't forget to, cause I won't let you
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dance without hopin that this come on next
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And if it go off, the DJ can't flex
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Cause here's the tempo, I'ma regulate the pace
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Here's the step, go find some space
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And what we gonna do is in unison, KICK
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Shake your head, you're influenced with music
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By now you're intoxicated, cause I prove I made it
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the pep your step so soon you get rejuvenated
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From side to side, you pause and clap
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But if you came to rap.. (step back)
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"Back to the lab, without a mic to grab" *
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* Eric B. cuts up the phrase
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"Back to the lab, without a mic to grab" *
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* Eric B. cuts up the phrase "Back to the lab" *
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Step Back
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| Eric B. & Rakim |
