How To Emcee
Rakim

It don't matter if I ain't on the page you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to flow and how to flip any phrase you want

You just keep your eye on me, I show you how to emcee


If it's swag or the lyric display you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to throw and how to rip any stage you want

I can show you how to emcee like I got a degree


This is your Qu'ran or Bible

To be a true MC, icon and idol

The contents you put in your songs are vital

Like training for the UFC, you want a title


Slam thoughts on the canvas, flip 'em and pin 'em

Metaphors and similes with synonyms in 'em

Spit heat around the town, the more you get it heard

Till you spit at least 3000 miles before it hit a curve


Then flaunt your rhymes in your rap pages

Wordplay to punchlines and catchphrases

Deep sport for players and ballers, new game

Street talk straight off the corners, new slang


I got heat for crowds for those that pursue it

Spitters, I show you flow till your vocals are through it

From social to freestyle, just focus into it

If you a G I'll show you how the Coppola do it


It don't matter if I ain't on the page you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to flow and how to flip any phrase you want

You just keep your eye on me, I show you how to emcee


If it's swag or the lyric display you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to throw and how to rip any stage you want

I can show you how to emcee like I got a degree


Forever sick like catchin' AIDS is

In a class for greatness for matchin' phrases

My predicates last for pages

Every letter fit, trend setter like fashion statements


Recruits get a shine and they hope forever

I wrote some of the illest rhymes ever put together

Soon as I make 'em rappers take 'em

Analyze 'em for days and paraphrase 'em


I'm back, hip hoppers'll back my scripts and documents

Raps hit the block, it's a wrap, it's the apocalypse

The hood give my rap flow names

Like 9/11 and crack cocaine


I hit the building, it get hotter in 'em

It's like birds, most rappers don't know how to flip 'em

I gotta hip 'em, get hop and show 'em how to spit 'em

I bust a rhyme and I school 'em for free, I scholarship 'em


It don't matter if I ain't on the page you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to flow and how to flip any phrase you want

You just keep your eye on me, I show you how to emcee


If it's swag or the lyric display you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to throw and how to rip any stage you want

I can show you how to emcee like I got a degree


Competition know the deal, you're not ready now

Because you're dealin' with the R, know how it's goin' down

This is it, if you so sick, where your skills at?

No sir, ghostwriter, you can kill that


It's hard [Incomprehensible] it isn't in bars, it's infinite

So Ra deliver it far different

Part lyricist, part instrument

Start spittin it the more articulate y'all rhythms get


Till every syllable you drop it pivotal

If it's not original it's not as memorable

Ill lyrical till you're so popular they sick of you

Pandemical threat, level 5, it's critical


Kill 'em off with a word like euthanasia

Till it spread to the youth in Asia

In the booth I'm major, my music's monumental, I'm a mogul

You wanna make sense? I'ma show you


You gotta put your life in them lines

Make the deaf hear, give sight to the blind

Make your flow tighter, brightest designs

So if the mic is your grind then biting's a crime

Especially if a ghostwriter's writin' your rhymes


It don't matter if I ain't on the page you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to flow and how to flip any phrase you want

You just keep your eye on me, I show you how to emcee


If it's swag or the lyric display you want

Tell me what you want, I give it to you the way you want

Show you how to throw and how to rip any stage you want

I can show you how to emcee like I got a degree


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