U.B.R. (Unauthorized Biography Of Rakim) - Clean Album Version

The unauthorized copy
 Dedication to my children, my child, Destiny Jones
 To my niece and nephews, Suree, Malik, Jabari
 The world is yours
 Acknowledgements: first off I wanna thank God
 And I wanna thank everybody for helping me out with this
 Couldn't do it without you. Chapter 1
 January 28, 1968
 Born into this world, William Griffin The Great
 Chapter 1, Wyandanch, Long Island
 Scientific rhyming invented a new style when
 He met with Eric Barrier from East Elmhurst
 The melody they created was the first
 Burst on the scene 1986, with clap to this
 '87 dropped a classic disc
 The facts is the tracklist was like full
 The vocals, the beats, according to Marley Marl
 Recorded in my hometown Queensbridge
 That's why it's so relative
 This biography was unauthorized
 I spit it how it was given to author Nas
 William changed his name at sixteen to Rakim Allah
 Cause Clarence 13X had New York on lock
 Gods on every block, jams in every park
 I remember hearing Kurtis Blow saying
 "It can't get better than this"
 'Til Run DMC blew my brains to bits
 From leather coats to shell toes to the Stan Smiths, to Dapper Dan kicks
 First million-dollar deal ever in rap, 18th Letter did that
 From 4th & Broadway to Uni to MCA
 We followed the leader to Harlem's Apollo Theatre
 Supreme, Rap and the 50 that don't rap
 Forte Green, Queens, Long Island wolfpack
 Paid In Full posse, hot they was on
 And Ra had his firstborn
 With the next line I'mma be easy
 His wisdom's name is Fifi
 EPMD put a record out, was dope
 Tension spread, and I quote "Smack me and I smack you back"
 Sounded like the answer to the I Ain't No Joke track
 For a second it ain't look good
 Little tension buzzing from Wyandanch to Brentwood
 Misunderstood, all forgot at sixteen when I met Freddie Foxxx
 Toting burners, the whole coast's most concern was
 How has Rakim's flow made Christians convert with Islamic ways
 Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em was the third LP
 A sophisticated mean one, before similar voices were King Sun
 A few others, but sooner or later, the game was Ra's kingdom
 At sixteen, son was watching him, mesmerized
 Respect, not jocking him, was so amazing, besides
 He came on the stage with lasers in his eyes
 Walk with me now
 Unauthorized Biography of Rakim
 Epilogue: Mother was a jazz singer
 Nephew to R & B legend Ruth Brown
 Discography: Paid In Full, Follow The Leader, Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em, Don't Sweat The Technique
 That's the end of the group, went on for solo
 Dropped The R, then The 18th Letter, then I think something, The Master
 Was signed to Aftermath
 Scheduled to release an album Oh My God with Dr. Dre
 The album was dismantled because of creative differences
 The end
 To the new beginning, yeah
 Next book, KRS-One. Peace