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Verse One:
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Follow me into a solo
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Get in the flow and you can picture like a photo
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Music mixed mellow maintains to make
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Melodies for MC's motivates the breaks
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I'm everlastin I can go on for days and days
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With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X rays
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I can take a phrase that's rarely heard FLIP IT
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Now it's a daily word
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I can get iller than 'Nam a killin bomb
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But no alarm Rakim will remain calm
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Self-esteem make me super superb and supreme
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But for a microphone still I fiend
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This was a tape I wasn't supposed to break
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I was supposed to wait, but let's motivate
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I want to see who can keep followin and swallowin
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Takin the making, bitin it and borrowin
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Brothers tried and others died to get the formula
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But I'ma let ya sweat - you still ain't warm
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You a step away from frozen, stiff as if ya posin
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Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen
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So follow me and were ya thinkin' you were first?
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Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe
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What could ya say as the Earth gets further and further away
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Planets are small as balls of clay
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Astray into the Milky Way - world's outasight
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Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite
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Now stop and turn around and look
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As ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took!
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So keep starin soon ya suddenly see a star
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You better follow it cause it's the R
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This is a lesson if ya guessin and if ya borrowin
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Hurry hurry step right up and keep followin
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The Leader
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Verse Two:
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This is a lifetime mission, vision of prison
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Aight listen
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In this journey you're the journal I'm the journalist
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Am I Eternal? Or an eternalist?
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I'm about to flow long as I can possibly go
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Keep ya movin cause the crowd said so
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Dance - cuts rip ya pants
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Eric B on the blades, bleedin to death - call the ambulance
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Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze
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A magnum as a microphone murderin' MC's
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Let's quote a rhyme from a record I wrote
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(follow the leader) Yeah - dope
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Cause everytime I stop it seems ya stuck
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Soon as ya try to step off ya self-destruct
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I came to overcome before I'm gone
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By showin and provin and lettin knowledge be born
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Then after that I'll live forever - you disagree?
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You say never? Then follow me!
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From century to century you'll remember me
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In history - not a mystery or a memory
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God by nature, mind raised in Asia
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Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya
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From the cradle to the grave, but remember
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You're not a slave
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Cause we was put here to be much more than that
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But we couldn't see it because our mind was trapped
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But I'm here to break away the chains, take away the pains
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Remake the brains, reveal my name
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I guess nobody told you a little knowledge is dangerous
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It can't be mixed, diluted; it can't be changed or switched
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Here's a lesson if ya guessing and borrowing
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Hurry hurry, step right up and keep following
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The leader
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Verse Three:
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A furified freestyle, lyrics of fury
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My third eye makes me shine like jewelry
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You're just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid
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I'll be here when it fade to watch you flip like a renegade
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I can't wait to break and eliminate
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On every traitor or snake - so stay awake
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and follow and follow, because the tempo's a trail
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The stage is a cage, the mic is a third rail
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I'm Rakim the Fiend of a Microphone
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I'm not HIM, so leave my mic alone
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Soon as the beat is felt, I'm ready to go
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So fasten your seatbelt, cause I'm about to flow
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No need to speed slow down to let the leader lead
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Word to daddy, indeed!
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The R's a rollin stone, so I'm rollin
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Directions is told, then the rhymes are stolen
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Stop buggin', a brother said, dig em, I never dug 'em
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He couldn't follow the leader long enough so I drug 'em
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into danger zone, he should arrange his own
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Face it, it's basic, erase it, change ya tone
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There's one R in the alphabet
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It's a one-letter word and it's about to get
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More complex from one rhyme to the next
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Eric B be easy on the flex
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I've been from state to state, followers tailgate
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Keep comin but you came too late, but I'll wait
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So back up, regroup, get a grip, come equipped
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You're the next contestant - clap ya hands, you won a trip!
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The price is right - don't make a deal too soon
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How many notes could you name this tune?
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Follow the Leader is the title, theme, task
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Now ya know, you don't have to ask
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Rap is Rhythm And Poetry, cuts create sound effects
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You might catch up if you follow the records E. wrecks
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Until then keep eatin and swallowin
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You better take a deep breath and keep followin
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The leader.
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Follow The Leader
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| Eric B. & Rakim |
