Rakim It's Been a Long Time lyrics

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(Its been a long time
Its been a long time
Its been a long time
Its been a long time
Rakim the microphone soloist)

Verse 1:

Follow procedures
The crowd couldn't wait to hear this
Nobodys been this long awaited since Jesus
Who wouldn't believe this
I heard the word on the street is
Im still one of the deepest on the mic since adidas
They said I changed the times from the rhymes that I thoughta
So I made some more to put the new world in order
With mathematics, put your status above the average
And help you rappers make paragraphs with graphics
Plus new days is dawning
New ways of peforming
Brainstorming, I write and watch the night turn to morning
On and onning, I got the whol world responding
Rak, I keep it hot, blow the spot without warning
The Emporer, well know for, inventing a setting
Full of adventure
Turning up the temperature
Rushed with adrenaline
How long has it been again to be in the state of mind that Rakim is is.

(Its been a long time
Rakim the microphone soloist
Its been a long time
Its been a long time Rakim)

Verse 2:

When I'm out proppin
Either, hangin or shoppin
People see me stop and ask me when the albums droppin
The wait is over
In formation like a soldier
Like I told ya, greater stronger, not out a mould ya.
I broke the, code of silence with overloads in talents
My only challenge, was not to explode in violence
Im asiatic
Emblazing microphones a habbit
?Emptys once? in the course of the day, its automatic
In ghetto apparal
Mind of an Egyptian Pharoah
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Far from shallow
Thoughts travel like an arrow
Allahs my ??????
So far they can't stop me
You know, Ra want property like Omar Gadafy
More thoughts than Bible recitals, towards desciples
A sawn off mic so wors scatter like a rifle
Thoughts just trifle
Im bustin these for you
Aiyo, technical difficulties is through.

(Its been a long time
Rakim the microphone soloist
Its been a long time
Rakim the microphone soloist
Its been a long time
Rakim the microphone soloist
Its been a long time
Its been a long time)

Verse 3:

When I flow tonight
I show em new heights to go to write
They know I strike with new prototypes to blow the mic
Critics and biters, don't know where my source of light is
Sill leave authors and writers with arthritis
Cursed kids like the Pyramids when they found the style
First to ever let a rhyme flow down the nile
The re birth for hip hop will be dropped now
Cos the crowd didn't hear the originaal when I'm wild
So be alarmed
What you bout to see is the bomb
Like ?3D in Nam?
Vivid like CD Rom
Info kept like internet dot com
My note pads my bond like the holy Koran
Since I came in the door
Said it before
But no I aint down with eric B no more
At night the open mics been inviting me to rhyme
So yo I'm on line
Its been a long time

(Its been a long time
Its been a long time
Rakim the microphone soloist
Its been a long time
Rakim the microphone soloist
Its been a long time
Its been a long time)