My Melody

Turn up the bass, check out my melody, hand out a cigar
 I'm lettin' knowledge be born and my name's the R
 A K I M, not like the rest of them, I'm not on a list
 That's what I'm sayin', I drop science like a scientist
 My melody's in a code, the very next episode
 Has the mic often distortin', ready to explode
 I keep the mic in Fahrenheit, freeze MC's and make 'em colder
 The listener's system is kickin' like solar
 As I memorize, advertise, like a poet
 Keep you goin' when I'm flowin', smooth enough, you know it
 But rough, that's why the middle of my story I tell E B
 Nobody beats the R, check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 So, what if I'm a microphone fiend, addicted soon as I sing
 One of these for MC's so, they don't have to scream
 I couldn't wait to take the mic, flow into it to test
 Then let my melody play and then the record suggest
 That I'm droppin' bombs but I stay peace and calm
 Any MC that disagree with me, wave your arm
 And I'll break, when I'm through breakin', I'll leave you broke
 Drop the mic, when I'm finished and watch it smoke
 So stand back, you wanna rap? All of that can wait
 I won't push, I won't beat around the bush
 I wanna break upon those who are not supposed to
 You might try but you can't get close to
 Because I'm number one, competition is none
 I'm measured with the heat, that's made by sun
 Whether playin' ball or bobbin' in the hall
 I just writin' my name in graffiti, on the wall
 You shouldn't have told me, you said you control me
 So now a contest is what you owe me
 Pull out your money, pull out your cut
 Pull up a chair
 My name is Rakim Allah and R & A stands for RA
 Switch it around, but still comes out R
 So easily will I, E M C E E
 My repetition of words is 'Check out my melody'
 Some bass and treble is moist, scratchin' and cuttin' a voice
 And when it's mine, that's when the rhyme is always choice
 I wouldn't have came, to set my name around the same weak shit
 Puttin' blurs and slurs and words that don't fit
 In a rhyme, why waste time on the microphone
 I take this more serious than just a poem
 Rockin' party to party, backyard to yard
 Now tear it up, y'all and bless the mic for the Gods
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 The rhyme is rugged, at the same time sharp
 I can swing off anything, even a string of a harp
 Just turn it on and start rockin', mind no introduction
 'Til I finish droppin' science, no interruption
 When I approach, I exercise like a coach
 Usin' a melody and add numerous notes
 With the mic and the R A K I M
 It's a task, like a match I will strike again
 Rhymes are poetically kept and alphabetically stepped
 Put in order to pursue with the momentum, except
 I say one rhyme and I order a longer rhyme shorter
 A pause but don't stop the tape recorder
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 I'm not a regular competitor, first rhyme editor
 Melody arranger, poet, etcetera
 Extra events, the grand finale like bonus
 I am the man they call the Microphonist
 With wisdom which means wise words bein' spoken
 Too many at one time, watch the mic start smokin'
 I came to express the rap I manifest
 Stand in my way and I'll be the one words protest
 MC's that wanna be dissed, they're gonna
 Be dissed if they don't get from, in fronta
 All they can go get is me, a glass of Moet
 A hard time, sip your juice and watch a smooth poet
 I take seven MC's, put 'em in a line
 And add seven more brothas, who think they can rhyme
 Well, it'll take seven more before I go for mine
 And that's twenty-one MC's, ate up at the same time
 Easy does it, do it easy, that's what I'm doin'
 No fessin', no messin' around, no chewin'
 No robbin', no buyin', bitin', why bother
 This slob'll stop tryin', fightin' to follow
 My unusual style will confuse you a while
 If I was water, I flow in the Nile
 So many rhymes you won't have time to go for your's
 Just because of a 'cause I have to pause
 Right after tonight is when I prepare
 To catch another sucka, duck MC out there
 'Cause my strategy has to be tragedy, catastrophe
 And after this you'll call me your majesty, my melody
 Check out my melody
 Yes, my melody
 Check out my melody
 Eric B
 Check out my melody
 Marley Marl, synthesized it, I memorize it
 Eric B made a cut and advertised it
 My melody's created for MC's in the place
 Who try to listen 'cause I'm dissin' face
 Take off your necklace, you try to detect my pace?
 Now you're buggin' over off my Rhyme like bass
 The melody that I'm stylin', smooth as a violin
 Rough enough to break New York from Long Island
 My wisdom is swift, no matter if
 My momentum is slow, MC's still stand stiff
 I'm genuine like leather, don't try to be clever
 MC's you'll beat the R, I'll say, "Oh never"
 So Eric B, cut it easily
 And check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody
 Check out my melody