Rakim How To Emcee lyrics

How To Emcee by Rakim

Look what ya'll made me do

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This is your koran or bible
To be a true emcee icon or idol
The contents you put in your songs are vital
Like training for the ufc you want a title
Slam thoughts on a canvas flip em and pin em metaphors 
and similes and synonyms in em
Spit heat around the town the more you get it heard 
till you spit at 2000 miles before it hit a curve
Then float your rhymes and your rap pages word play 
punch lines and catch phrases
Heat spots with players and ballers new game street 
talk straight off the corners new slang
I got heat for crowds for those that pursuit it
Spitters I show you flow till your vocals are through 
it
I m showing you freestyle just focus into it
If you a gee I'll show you how to cope when you do it

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Forever sick like catching aids is
In a class of greatness for magic phrases
My predicates last for pages every letter fit trend 
setter like fashion statements
When folks get a sign and a hope forever
I wrote some of the illest rhymes ever put to gether
Soon as I make em rappers take em analyze em for days 
and para phrase em
I'm back hip hoppers
I'm back to spit some documents
Raps hit the block it's a wrap it's the apocalypse
The hood give my rap flow names like nine eleven and 
crack cocaine
I hit the building it gets hotter in em
It's like birds most rappers don't know how to flip em
I got hip em get hop and show em how to spit em I bust