ฟังเพลงStrong Island (Album Version|Explicit)

Strong Island (Album Version|Explicit) - Rakim

Lyrics by：william griffin/eric barrier

Composed by：william griffin/eric barrier

Produced by：rakim

One two

Yeah uhh yeah

Rough enough to break New York

From long island

Yeah it's the God baby

Long island's own

Barbarian of the microphone

Rough enough to break New York

From long island

And the streets just a couple of miles east of Mecca

Where peeps touch nuttin but style heat and cheddar

Compete witcha livelihood to eat better

And ain't nuttin sweet but the ladies who speak wetta

With a torn smile tryin to get my song on file

It's on now the whole town done gone wild

Kick rhymes off my heartbeat as a unborn child

Then developed a strong style on long isle

Won't be long now I started rhymin young

I designed for fun knowin my time would come

I started payin dues djin with crews

Learnin the inner city rules conveyin the news

Soon as the jam start the man's art'll jam parks

Slam so hard it remains a landmark

The rhyme that I'm stylin

Smooth as a violin

But rough enough to break

New york from long island

Drop and up

Drop and up

Drop and up

And break New York from long island

Like any God loose on a spree for new degrees

Things to do and see un'til nuttin is new to me

A true MC usually be into a breeze

And I can s'till see New York city through the trees

My advance slams put you outside lookin in

Or the other way around that depends look again

Took a pen so you could zero in on my book of gems

It extends from the hamptons to brook-lyn

Through every hoodie in town

To learn the boogie down

'Til every dj around wanted to put me down

Rhymes got rougher 'til I was ready to blast off

And harass all from suffolk county to nassau

Where we keep the money pilin

Keep the honies smilin

Keep the heater just in

Case kids start whylin

The rhyme that I'm stylin smooth as a violin

Rough enough to break

New york from long island

Rough enough

Rough enough rough enough

To break New York from long island

Rough enough

Rough enough rough enough

Rough enough to break New York from long island

Grew up in wyndanch formerly known as crime-danch

Me and my mans we travel lands to find jams

Where violence usually ends in sirens

By all means we all fiend for finance

We make cash on the street called straight path

We take class build with the gods with great math

Everyday true to the street and never fronted

Along the way learned from the best that ever done it

Bein exposed to life's highs and lows

Got my flows ready for shows I'm ready for the pros

I put it on a tape and then the city I tested

Then on the radio the r's requested

Now the whole world's whylin all the girls smilin

You know it's on soon as they let the crowd in

The rhyme that I'm stylin smooth as a violin

Rough enough to break New York

From long island

Rough enough

Rough enough

Rough enough

From long island

Rough enough

Rough enough

To break New York from long island

Rough enough

To break New York from long island

Rough enough

Rough rough rough rough

Rough enough

To break New York from long island