The 18th Letter (Always And Forever) (Album) - Rakim

Written by：Isaac Hayes/Rakim/S. Phillips/William Griffin/Scott Phillips

What uhh yo

Just when things seemed the same

And the whole scene is lame

I come and reign with the unexplained

For the brains till things change

They strain to slang sling

I'm trained to bring game

History that I arranged been

Regained by king james

Go to practice with tactics

When the track hits theatrics

Women that look like actress

The status of cleopatra's

Stacks of mathematics

Took the

Ego a geatics

As I find out what the facts is

For geographic

No time to sip mo's with hostess

Never mind what the total gross is

I rip shows stay focused

And split cheese with soldiers

While you hit trees and coast

I spit flows that be ferocious

And with these explosives

I split seas for moses

Shine permanently only

My mind's concernin me

Fire burns in me eternally time's eternity

Followers turn on me

They'll be in a mental infirmary

Determinely advance technology

Better than germany

Since the first days you know of

Till the last days is over

I was always the flow er

I made waves for noah

From a compound

To the anatomy

To the breakdown of a atom

Some of my rap patterns

Still surround saturn

From the ancient hieroglyphics

To graffiti painted pictures

I study I know the scriptures

But nowaday ain't it vicious

Date back I go beyond

Check the Holy Qu'ran

To speeches at the altar on

Now we get our party on

So being beneficent

I bless em with dialogue

They expectin the next testament by the god

I blow em through battlezones

With chrome for chaperone

Blast beats with saxophones

One of the baddest rapper's known

Every country city and borough

Sidestreet and ghetto

Isle and alley and meadow theories

Ferile enough to echo

When it was one mass of land

With one nash' of man

And the whole mass was

Ran under one master plan

Since the world's metamorphis

And the plan is kept in orbit

Turntables we spin off but the

Needles never skip off it

Rhythms we expressin

Similar to our ancestors

It'll answer your questions if you

Understand the message

From the days of the slave choppers

To the new age of prophets

As heavy as hip hop is

I'm always ready to drop it

From the mind which

Is one of Allah's best designs

And mines'll stand the test of time

When I rhyme

The 18th letter the prophesy professor

I stay clever long as the

Planet stay together

Bring up praise from mecca

Make a phrase for the better

In new days to remember

Always and forever

The 18th letter the prophesy professor

I stay clever long as the

Planet stay together

Bring up praise from mecca

Make a phrase for the better

In new days to remember

Always and forever

The r baby