It's Been a Long Time - Rakim

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[00:06.45]It's been a long time..
[00:17.30].. Rakim, the microphone soloist
[00:22.85]Follow procedures, the crowd couldn't wait to see this
[00:25.61]Nobody been this long awaited since Jesus
[00:28.16]Who wouldn't believe this—I heard the word on the street is
[00:31.00]I'm still one of the deepest on the mic since Adidas
[00:33.54]They said I changed the times from the rhymes that I thought of
[00:36.36]So I made some more to put the New World in Order
[00:39.07]With Mathematics, put your status above the average
[00:41.79]And help you rappers, make paragraphs with graphics
[00:44.52]Cause new days is dawning, new ways of performing
[00:47.20]Brainstorming, I write and watch the night turn to morning
[00:49.96]On and on and, I got the whole world responding
[00:52.62]Rock, I keep it hot and blow the spot without warning
[00:55.31]The Emperor, well known for, inventing a sentence
[00:58.54]Full of adventure, turning up the temperature
[01:00.77]Rush with adrenaline, how long has it been again
[01:03.61]To be in the state of mind that Rakim is in
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[01:07.43]It's been a long time..
[01:11.41].. Rakim, the microphone soloist
[01:16.79]When I'm out propping—either hanging or shopping—
[01:18.09]People see me, stop, and ask me when the album dropping
[01:22.40]The wait is over, in formation like a soldier
[01:24.96]Like I told ya, greater stronger, now that I'm older
[01:27.57]I broke the code of silence with overloads of talents
[01:30.50]My only challenge is not to explode in violence
[01:33.19]I'm Asiatic, and blazing microphones a habit
[01:35.81]At least once during the course of a day, it's automatic
[01:38.46]In ghetto apparel, mind of a Egyptian Pharoah
[01:41.31]Far from shallow, thoughts travel like an arrow
[01:44.32]Allah's monotony, so far they can't stop me
[01:46.73]You know, Ra want property like Muammar Gaddafi
[01:49.51]More thoughts than Bibles, recital, taught disciples
[01:52.16]A sawed off mic, so words scatter like a rifle
[01:54.91]Thoughts that's trifle, I'm busting these for you
[02:01.13]Ayo, technical difficulties is through
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[02:10.93]It's been a long time..
[02:14.51].. Rakim, the microphone soloist
[02:21.47]When I flow tonight, I show them new heights, I go to write
[02:24.41]They know I strike with new prototypes to blow the mic
[02:27.32]Critics and biters, don't know where my source of light is
[02:29.97]Still leave authors and writers with arthritis
[02:32.74]Cursed kids like the Pyramids when they found the style
[02:35.44]First to ever let a rhyme flow down the Nile
[02:38.12]The rebirth of hip-hop'll be dropped now
[02:40.49]Cause the crowd didn't hear the original in a while
[02:43.55]So be alarmed, what you bout to see is the bomb
[02:46.12]Like 3D in 'Nam, vivid like CD-Rom
[02:48.99]Info kept like internet.com
[02:51.16]My notebook's my bond like the Holy Qu'ran
[02:54.15]Since I came in the door, said it before
[02:57.18]But no I ain't down with Eric B. no more
[03:13.00]At night the open mic be inviting me to rhyme
[03:34.80]So, yo, I'm online;it's been a long time