I Ain't No Joke - Rakim/Eric B.mp3

[00:08.21]I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke
[00:10.77]Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke
[00:12.76]When i'm gone no one gets on cuz I won't let
[00:15.90]Nobody press up and mess up the seen I set
[00:17.23]I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder
[00:19.97]Damn! But think about it then you'll understand
[00:22.25]I'm just an addict addicted to music
[00:24.65]Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it
[00:26.80]Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm
[00:28.98]I hook a beat up convert it into hip-hop form
[00:31.10]Write a rhyme in graffitti in every show you see me in
[00:33.58]Deep concentration, cuz I'm no comedian
[00:36.11]Jokers are wild if you wanna be tamed
[00:38.52]I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named
[00:40.57]Another enemy, not even a friend of me
[00:43.10]Cuz you'll get fried in the end when you pretend to be
[00:45.43]Competin' cuz I just put your mind on pause
[00:47.48]and I complete when - you compare my rhyme wit yours
[00:49.76]I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned
[00:52.50]Remember me, the one you got your idea from
[00:54.12]But soon you start to suffer, the tune'll get rougher
[00:56.97]When you start to stutter that's when you had enuff of
[00:59.17]Biting, it'll make you choke, you can't provoke
[01:01.27]You can't cope,you should've broke
[01:02.97]because I ain't no joke..
[01:21.66]I got a question, as serious as cancer
[01:24.90]Who can keep the average dancer
[01:26.94]Hyper as a heart attack nobody smiling
[01:29.60]Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling
[01:31.40]This is what we all sit down to write
[01:33.63]You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite
[01:35.73]Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits
[01:38.10]Get the style down pat then it's time to switch
[01:40.60]Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours
[01:42.65]Then you fake it you're ready for the neighborhood chores
[01:44.92]The E-M-C-E-E don't even try to be
[01:47.87]When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me
[01:50.00]You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate
[01:52.34]Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me
[01:54.71]So when you see me come up, freeze
[01:56.84]Or you'll be one of those 7 MC's
[01:59.30]They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that
[02:01.38]They who think wrong are they who can't do that
[02:03.54]Style that I'm doing, they might ruin
[02:06.13]Patterns and paragraphs based on you and
[02:08.57]Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play
[02:11.60]Sound familiar, I'll wait til E say
[02:13.13]Play 'em, so I'ma have to diss and bro
[02:15.20]You could get a smack for this
[02:17.20]I ain't no joke...
[02:36.15]I hold the microphone like a grudge
[02:38.31]B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge
[02:40.54]I hold a conversation cuz when I invent
[02:42.48]I nominated my DJ to president
[02:45.70]When I'm see I'll, keep a freestyle, going steadily
[02:47.89]So pucker up and whistle my melody
[02:49.81]But whatever you do, don't miss one
[02:51.95]They'll be another rough rhyme after this one
[02:54.34]Before you know it, you're following and fiending
[02:56.75]Waiting for the punchline to get the meaning
[02:58.88]Like before the middle of my story I'm telling
[03:01.36]Nobody beats the R so stop yelling
[03:03.57]Save it, put it in your pocket for later
[03:05.75]Cuz I'm moving the crowd and B'll wreck the fader
[03:08.30]No interruptions til the mic is broke
[03:10.44]When I'm gone, then you can joke
[03:12.89]Cuz everything is real on a serious tip
[03:15.80]Keep playing and I varies quick
[03:17.14]And take you for a walk through hell
[03:19.40]Freeze your dome then watch your eyeballs swell
[03:22.11]Guide you out of triple stage darkness
[03:24.40]When it get dark again then I'ma spark this
[03:26.94]Microphone cuz the heat is on, you see smoke
[03:29.31]then I finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke...