Twice the First Time

[00:01.66] (sung)
[00:02.50] I will not rhyme on tracks
[00:08.99] Niggas on a chain gang used to do that (huh!) way back
[00:14.36] I will not rhyme over tracks
[00:17.98] Niggas on a chain gang used to do that (huh!) way back
[00:24.27] Don't drop the beat on me
[00:28.72] Don't drop the beat no
[00:29.62] Ah
[00:31.47] I am not the son of sha klak klak
[00:35.06] I am before that
[00:36.84] I am before
[00:37.76] I am before before before death is eternity after death is eternity
[00:42.21] There is no death there's only eternity
[00:44.96] And i be riding on the wings of eternity like
[00:46.78] Cla cla cla sha klack klack
[00:49.46] Get me the fuck off this track
[00:54.95] As if the heart beat wasn't enough
[00:59.43] They got us using drum machines now
[01:04.85] The hums of the machines
[01:05.70] Tryin to make our drums humdrums
[01:09.38] Tryin to? our magic
[01:12.94] Insturments be political prisioners up inside computers
[01:17.49] As if the heart were not enough
[01:23.73] As if the heart were not enough
[01:27.38] And as heart beats bring percussions
[01:30.01] Fallen trees bring reprocussions
[01:31.86] Citys play upon our souls like broken drums
[01:34.55] Redrum the essence of creation from city slums
[01:38.16] But city slums mute our drums and our drums become humdrums
[01:41.82] Cuz city slums have never been where our drums are from
[01:44.55] Just the place where our daughters and sons become
[01:48.13] Offbeat heartbeats
[01:49.92] Slaves to city streets
[01:51.74] And hearts get broken and heartbeats stop
[01:54.40] Broken heartbeats become breakbeats for niggas to rhyme on top, but.
[01:56.20] I won't rhyme on top no tracks
[01:59.81] Niggas on a chain gang used to do that (huh) way back
[02:07.02] I won't rhyme over tracks
[02:09.73] Niggas on a chain gang used to do that (huh) way back
[02:14.29] Don't drop the beat no
[02:17.89] Don't drop the beat noooo
[02:20.67] Not untill you've listen to rakim on a rocky mountain top
[02:24.15] Have you heard hip hop
[02:26.00] Extract the urban element which created it
[02:27.83] And let a open wide country side illustrate it
[02:30.54] Riding in a freight train
[02:32.36] In the freezing rain
[02:33.29] Listening to coltrane
[02:34.18] My reality went insane
[02:35.90] And i think i saw jesus
[02:36.89] He was playing hopscotch with betty carter
[02:39.56] Who was cursing him out
[02:40.44] In a scat-like gibberish for not saying 'butterfingers'
[02:42.29] And my fingers run through grains of sand
[02:44.99] Like seeds of time
[02:46.73] The pains of man
[02:47.60] The frames of mind
[02:48.56] Which built these frames
[02:49.49] Which is the structure of my urban superstructure
[02:52.17] The trains and planes can corrupt and obstruct your planes of thought
[02:55.79] So you that forget how to walk through the woods
[02:57.54] Which ain't good cuz you ain't never walked through the trees
[03:00.20] Listenin' to nobody beats the biz and you ain't never heard hip hop
[03:02.91] And you must stop that damn track from going...
[03:07.59] Please don't drop the beat
[03:09.31] Don't drop the beat nooo
[03:12.02] And...
[03:12.90] I will not rhyme on tracks
[03:15.63] Niggas on a chain gang used to that (huh) way back
[03:21.95] (repeat)
[03:29.10] Don't drop the beat noooo
[03:34.52] Don't drop the beat no
[03:36.32] Don't drop the beat no
[03:40.85] Don't drop the beat
[03:42.62] ...heartbeat
[03:44.46] My heartbeat
[03:48.00] Goes on
[03:50.79] And on
[03:52.65] And on...
[03:55.38] Yeah
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