I Ain't No Joke
Rakim

I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke

Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke

When I'm gone, I wrote this song 'cuz I won't let

Nobody press up and mess up, to seen, I set


I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder damn

But think about it then you'll understand

I'm just a addict, addicted to music

Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it


Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm

I hook a beat up, convert it in a hip-hop form

Write a rhyme in graffiti, in every show you see me

In deep concentration 'cuz I'm no comedian


Jokers are wild, if you wanna be tame

I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named

Another enemy, not even a friend of me

'Cuz you'll get fried in the end then you pretend to be


Competing, 'cuz I just put your mind on pause

And I can beat you when you compare my rhyme wit yours

I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stun

Remember me, the one you got your idea from


But soon you start to suffer but you only get rougher

When you start to stutter that's when you had enough of

Biting it, I make you choke, you can't provoke

You can't cope, you should have broke, 'cuz I ain't no joke


I got a question, it's serious as cancer

Who can keep the average dancer?

Hyper as a heart attack, nobody smilin'

'Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm stylin'


This is what we all sit down to write

You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite

Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits

Get the style down pat, then it's time to swit


Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours

Then you figure, you're ready for the neighborhood chores

The E M C E E, don't even try to be

When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me


You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate

Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me

So when you see me come up, freeze

Or you'll be one of those seven MC's


They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that

They who think wrong are they who can't do that

Style that I'm doin', they might ruin

Patterns of paragraphs based on you and


Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play

Sound familiar, I'll wait till E say

Play 'em, so I'ma have to dis and broke

You could get a smack for this, I ain't no joke


I hold the microphone like a grudge

B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge

I hold a conversation 'cuz when I invent

I nominated my DJ the president


When I'm, see I'll, people freestyle, goin' steadily

So pucker up and whistle my melody

But whatever you do, don't miss one

They'll be another rough rhyme after this one


Before you know it, you're followin' and fiendin'

Waiting for the punchline to get the meanin'

Like before, the morale of my story, I'm tellin'

Nobody beats the R so stop yellin'


Save it, put it in your pocket for later

'Cuz I'm moving the crowd and be a record fader

No interruptions and the mic is broke

When I'm gone, then you can joke


'Cuz everything is real on a serious tip

Keep playin' and I varies it quick

And take you for a walk through hell

Feed your dome then watch your eyeballs swell


Guide you out of triple stage darkness

When it get dark again then I'ma spark this microphone

'Cuz the heat is on, you see smoke

And I'm finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke


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Lyrics by Rakim

  Addictive   Addictive (So Contagious)   Addictive-Truth Hurts   Adiós   After You Die   All Night Long   Amigo   As the Rhyme Goes On   Casualties of War   Cold Feeling   Concrete Jungle   Dedicated   Dime   Documentary Of A Gangsta   Don't Call Me   Don't Sweat The Technique (Live)   Don't' Sweat The Technique   Down   Down (remix) ft Ken-Y   Eric B Is President   Eric B. Is President   Eric B. Is President [Album Version]   Euphoria   Finest Ones   Finest Ones [Featuring Clark Kent]   Flow Forever   Follow the Leader   From New York To Cali   Guess Who's Back   Guess Who's Back (Alternative Mix)   Guess Who's Back?   Guess Whos Back   Guilty All the Same   Heat It Up   Hip Hop   Holy Are U   Holy Are You   How I Get Down   How To Emcee   I Am   I Get Visual   I Know   I Know You Got Soul   I Walk These Streets   I'll Be There   I'll Bust 'em, You Punish 'em   In the Ghetto   Intro   It' Been a Long Time (Suave House Mix)   It's a Must   It's Been a Long Time   It's Been A Long Time (Suave House Mix)   It's Nothing   It's Nothing (Live)   It's the R   It"S The R   Juice *   Juice (Know the Ledge)   Juice (Know The Ledge) *   Know the Ledge   Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em   Let The Rhythm Hit Em   Living For The City   Lyrics of Fury   Mahogany   Man Above   Message In The Song   Microphone Fiend   Microphone Fiend [Album Version]   Move The Crowd   Murderer   Musical Massacre   My Melody   Mystery   Mystery (Who Is God?)   Mystery (Who Is God)   Nena   New York   New York (Ya Out there?)   New York (Ya Out There)   New York To Cali   Outro   Outro (The 18th Letter)   Paid in Full   Paid in Full [Mini Madness-The Coldcut Remix][*]   Paid in Full [Seven Minutes of Madness - the Coldc...   Pasado   Pensando en Ti   Poco A Poco   Psychic Love   Pull It All to Music   Put It All To Music   R.A.K.I.M.   Real Shit   Remember That   Saga Begins   Satisfaction Guaranteed   Show Me Love   Skit - *   State of Hip Hop Interlude   State Of Hip-Hop Interlude   Stay a While   Stay Awhile   Still In Love   Strong Island   Sueltate   Take The Train   The 18Th Letter   The 18th Letter (Always and Forever)   The Militia Ii   The Militia II (Remix)   The Mystery (Who Is God?)   The Punisher   The Saga Begins   The Skit - *   The Skit - (dialogue) *   Up Lift   Uplift   Waiting For The World To End   Walk These Streets   We'll Never Stop   We’ll Never Stop   What's Going On   What's On Your Mind   What's On Your Mind (Live)   Whats Goin On   When I B on Tha Mic   When I Be On The Mic   When I Be On The Mic (Single Version)   When I'm Flowin   When I'm Flowin'   Won't Be Long   Word On The Sreet   Word On The Street   Working For You   You And I   You Know the Deal

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