[ti:How I Get Down] [ar:Rakim] [al:The Master] [00:00.02]Rakim - How I Get Down [00:05.52] [00:22.43]Before the dough came, my whole aim, was blow like propane [00:25.39]Control the whole domain, and then show no shame [00:28.11]Make rappers go train and they so lame, playin with no game [00:30.96]Put em on the lil plane til they can't claim no fame [00:33.79]I got, the range, better, stay in the slow lane [00:36.58]I make the flow change from hurricanes to a slow rain [00:39.41]Your thoughts are so plane, I rearrange your whole frame [00:42.16]until my whole name grow out your brain like Rogaine [00:45.12]Letter by letter, I put words together [00:47.73]Once merged, apart never, they be heard forever [00:50.46]and then I grab a pen and stab him in his abdomen [00:53.37]and smash him in, throw his mic like a javelin [00:56.20]Then I explain verses, that remain on the surface [00:59.16]At times it get deep, but I never defeat the purpose [01:01.92]Never go out, to go the dough route, forever hold out [01:04.75]I never sold out, for any amount, no doubt [01:07.11] [01:07.66]That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that [01:09.95]I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track [01:12.63]I start a party now - everybody like rap [01:15.53]Haters are mad cause they gave the R the mic back [01:18.46]That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that [01:21.27]I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track [01:24.17]I start a party now - everybody like rap [01:27.01]Haters are mad cause they gave the R the mic back [01:29.40] [01:30.09]I like to hang where e'rythang seem to happen at (y'know?) [01:32.73]It's Ra's habitat, I'm like that czar Arafat [01:35.59]And yes I have a gat, snap like a Israeli [01:38.48]A terrorist I never miss blowin up kids daily [01:41.27]I step to writers, and let my virus hurt the closest [01:44.16]I'm sick as hepatitis and worse than tuberculosis [01:47.09]Pull out a pen, like a grenade, and drop it quick [01:49.97]I strike again and I'ma get paid, exotic shit [01:52.79]You know the God ra be, hot as the Mojave [01:55.60]Swing like King Usabi, my posse be kamikaze [01:58.37]On the corners like I'm homeless and I, don't know where home is [02:01.01]The bonus, is where the next open microphone is [02:03.90]Me and my team, vision like a radar screen [02:06.62]Intervene and yo, cut the mic off, cause Ra fiend [02:09.46]to show the whole world some of the things I seen [02:12.06]then blow it up, like Edi Amin, yaknahmean? [02:14.80] [02:15.40]That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that [02:17.48]I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track [02:20.30]I start a party now - everybody like rap [02:23.23]Haters are mad cause they gave the R the mic back [02:26.15]That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that [02:28.94]I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track [02:31.76]I start a party now - everybody like rap [02:34.49]Haters are mad cause they gave the R the mic back [02:37.10] [02:37.85]I do a thang thang, I write the songs they sing [02:40.26]Make sure that they swing, from New York to Beijing [02:43.32]Put your thoughts in the sling and your brain is gangrene [02:45.99]Pull in the ring, repeatin and sayin the same thing [02:49.09]Xerox, zero, no match, you ditto [02:52.21]copy machine, couldn't reprint my ?? [02:54.90]My new style, that I produce now's beyond two-thou' [02:57.56]I knew how, since a juvenile, to make a ka-pow [03:00.48]When the night's fallin, I can hear the mic callin [03:03.11]I like ballin, I cut back like Mic Jordan [03:05.83]This is for y'all while I'm spittin literatures [03:08.79]Lyrics'll ball like Allen Iverson dribble the ball [03:11.54]They hopeless - whoever approaches my high explosives [03:14.40]My vision sadicious, and freestyle's ferocious [03:17.34]I wrote this, words flew over my head like a locust [03:20.03]I turned the beat up, sat back, and stayed focused [03:22.93] [03:23.41]That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that [03:25.68]I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track [03:28.17]I start a party now - everybody like rap [03:31.09]Haters are mad cause they gave the R the mic back [03:33.71]That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that [03:36.54]I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track [03:39.53]I start a party now - everybody like rap [03:42.59]Haters are mad cause they gave the R the mic back [03:45.10] [03:46.19]End [03:47.48] [03:48.02]Rakim - How I Get Down [03:53.52]