[piano playing for 1:02 before the beginning of the main song]
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[Eric B] "Clap your hands" cut and scratched [x6]
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[Rakim] Put your hands together... clap your hands
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[Verse One: Rakim]
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This is for thousands of people who came
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A show from road to road you're entertained
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I don't even have to say my name
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Cause when the place is ripped in half, I'm to blame
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Masses of posses packed up schemin
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Ladies lovely and keep on screamin
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Go Rakim, go Rakim, go
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It won't be long then it's on with the show
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I'm late, so hit the brakes and park the Benzito
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Double oh seven, incognito
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Sneak in the back door, lookin for the stage
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When I get on you react in a rage
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People from side to side and front to back
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won't dance, if the MC's wack
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The crowd go psycho even if I don't move
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Some like the groove cause I'm so smooth
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Then somethin happens, feet start tappin
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You can't hold back when Rakim's rappin
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The man you've been waitin for, rougher than ever
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Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together
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[Eric B] "Clap your hands" cut and scratched [x8]
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[Rakim] Clap your hands
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[Verse Two: Rakim]
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I create em, take em, shake em, then make em clap to this
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Most of you rappers, can't even rap to this
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I made it faster, you tried to master
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Syncopated styles, words flowin after
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Measures of metaphor definitions of more than one
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Take it both ways, I'll be here when you're done
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Remember as the rhyme goes on it's rougher
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Soon as I stop, you had enough of
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Followin footsteps, you better turn back soon
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Sucker MC's suck rhymes like vacuums
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The style remains the same, the words is changed
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Bitten, rewritten, recited and rearranged
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Sing along if your tongue is strong, it gets sore
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Sing when I'm gone and it'll break your jaw
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Wisdom flows so swift, I'm Asiatic
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Is it a gift, or automatic
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Static, I don't cling
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I got a tip of my own and I don't sing
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Don't understand, here's an example
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and why MC's and DJ's sample
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Cause we don't have a band, it's just my voice and his hands
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That's what hip-hop was, it still stands
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The records we use are from mom's and pop's collection
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Find a break from a dope selection
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And go to the store, then buy one more
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So my DJ can mix cause that's what his hands are for
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Years later hip-hop got contracts
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The chance to put actual facts on wax
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A mind's the coach, the physical form's the team
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The top's the destination, I'm the cream
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And still I rise with somethin pumpin and somethin clever
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Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together
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[Eric B] "Clap your hands" cut and scratched [x7]
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[Rakim] Clap your hands... clap em, clap em
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[Verse Three: Rakim]
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Now who's the man with the masterplan?
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With stacks of verbal attacks so clap your hands
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Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints
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Students influenced are now a nuisance
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You couldn't fight it, you had to clap to this
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You got excited, you almost snapped your wrist
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The rhymes was written for the crowd's enjoyment
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When I'm with this you can't toy with
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The def jam juicer rough rhyme producer
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Loads of lyrics get you loose, then looser
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The man so smooth and world so rough
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Eric is throwin and sewin rippin restitchin the cuts
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Microphone your majesty, no one's bad as me
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Seems the tragedy, Rakim had to be
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Thinkin of some def view of a video
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Visions are vicious, and I'll let the city know
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Whoever's frontin they know, nothin to say though
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so lay low, musical forms are kickin' like Kato
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Don't get near it, hard as you ever hear it
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I know it's fearified, but don't fear it
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And try to predict which rhyme you can kick
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You're quick to pick your best, for the mic is lit
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Instead of goin with the flow like you're supposed to go
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And enjoy the show and yo, put your hands together
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[Eric B] "Clap your hands" cut and scratched [x6]
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[Rakim] Clap your hands... put your hands together
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CLAP YOUR HANDS! *echoes*
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For more information visit fanclub of Eric B. & Rakim http://brainstormlive.com/d/pg/groups/78496/eric-b-rakim/.
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Put Your Hands Together
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