It's Been A Long Time

It's Been A Long Time - Rakim

Lyrics by：William Griffin/Eric Barrier/Fred Babbitt/James Brown/Charles Fred A. Bobbit/Eric B./Bobby Byrd/Rakim/Chris Martin

Composed by：William Griffin/Eric Barrier/Fred Babbitt/James Brown/Charles Fred A. Bobbit/Eric B./Bobby Byrd/Rakim/Chris Martin

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim the microphone soloist"

Follow procedures

The crowd couldn't wait to see this

Nobody been this long-awaited since Jesus

Who wouldn't believe this

I heard the word on the street is

I'm still one of the deepest on the mic since Adidas they said

I changed the times from the rhymes that I thought of

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

'Cause new days is dawning new ways of performing

Brainstorming I write and watch the night turn to morning

On and on and I got the whole world responding

Rock I keep it hot and blow the spot without warning

The emperor well-known for inventing a sentence

Full of adventure turning up the temperature

Rush with adrenaline

How long has it been again

To be in the state of mind that Rakim is in

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim the microphone soloist"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim"

When I'm out propping either hanging or shopping

People see me stop and ask me when the album dropping

The wait is over

In formation like a soldier like I told ya

Greater stronger now that I'm older I broke the

Code of silence with overloads of talents

My only challenge is not to explode in violence

I'm Asiatic and blazing microphones a habit at least

Once during the course of a day it's automatic

In ghetto apparel mind of a Egyptian pharaoh

Far from shallow thoughts travel like an arrow

Allah's monotony so far they can't stop me you know

Ra want property like Muammar Gaddafi

More thoughts than Bibles recitals taught disciples

A sawed-off mic so words scatter like a rifle

Thoughts that's trifle I'm busting these for you ayyo

Technical difficulties is through

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim the microphone soloist"

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim the microphone soloist"

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim the microphone soloist"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

When I float at night

I show 'em new heights I 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

Still 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 rebirth of hip-hop'll be dropped now 'cause the crowd

Didn't hear the original in a while

So be alarmed

What you 'bout to see is the bomb like

3D in 'Nam vivid like CD-Rom

Info kept like internet.com my note-

Book's my bond like the Holy Quran

Since I came in the door said it before

But no I ain't down with Eric B. no more

At night the open mic be inviting me to rhyme

So yo I'm online

It's been a long time

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim the microphone soloist"

"It's been a long time"

"Rakim the microphone soloist"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"

"It's been a long time"