Rakim - I Know lyrics

A yo, who's the most explosive one yet?
Year round there was one left
Who flows express rhythms drum
Sets ain't done yet?
Blow like a trumpet till yo eardrums are deaf
Who pose a threat?
Yo- who's more ferocious- none yet
To the night dem' set mic
Trends and life ends in sight
I see the whole world through a tight lens
Rhymes I write plenz' and kept a white Benz
Spend G's like hundreds and
Hundreds like tens i get paid black
But laid back with mild manners
When I flip it's the opposite
Of doc Bruce Banner
Out the lab with soul and
Melodies in your ear
And just when it all seem clear I disappear
All you gotta do is holla'
Reappear like voila the street schola'


I'm 40 deep like Ali Baba
Give the mamas something to talk
About in the beauty parlor
Keep it hot like lava yeah, it's Rakim Allah

I know you find it hard to believe that
I am the genie of the mic an
I can do anything you wish but
Right now I'm commanding you to dance

Ready to dance y'all
My magic carpet's the dance floor
Last chance y'all even if you can't ball
What part don't you understand? Your
Wish is my command
And I'm a rock a jam by popular demand
You gone love this, it's marvelous, baby
It gotta thug's twist-it start to get crazy
It's off the meat rack- can't
Keep my peeps back
Speak raps and I freak tracks for these cats
I got a fetish for puttin'
Together words and letters
It ain't all about the cheddars and
Y'all know where my head is
Ghetto scriptures for my little
Brothers and sisters
And still get vicious for the
Thugs and the Misses what I don't do is talk
About the same old thing
When I come through, I drop it
And they gone swing
I bring the ladies joy until
They make crazy noise
Cuz the beat's bangin'- I'm born to blaze
Baby boy

I know you find it hard to believe that
I am the genie of the mic an
I can do anything you wish but
Right now I'm commanding you to dance
I know you find it hard to believe that
I am the genie of the mic an
I can do anything you wish but
Right now I'm commanding you to dance

The editor, forevermore the predator
I set it off, spread a war like never before
Spit literatures like a ghetto
Braud raw to cause? 'till menopause
With raw metaphors, I set it off
But, I just begun the best is yet to come
Blessed with a majestic tongue
Since I was young
But, I was stressed for funds
And obsessed with guns
Test the one, let Allah protect your son
Cause, I'm the musical magician
The Asiatic author
The microphone magician when I
Have a magic marker, a mentor
You can explore, every sentence is a tour
The inventor is more than adventure
You'll be blown away
In the zone when it play it's so ill
I still grab the microphone and say
One of my own displays like
I'm known to blaze
And I bet rhyme pays until I'm old and gray

I know you find it hard to believe that
I am the genie of the mic an
I can do anything you wish but
Right now I'm commanding you to dance
I know you find it hard to believe that
I am the genie of the mic an
I can do anything you wish but
Right now I'm commanding you to dance
I know you find it hard to believe that
I am the genie of the mic an
I can do anything you wish but
Right now I'm commanding you to dance
I know you find it hard to believe that
I am the genie of the mic an
I can do anything you wish but
Right now I'm commanding you to dance