歌手: Rakim
时长: 04:33
Strong Island (Album Version|Explicit) - Rakim[00:00:00]
Lyrics by:william griffin/eric barrier[00:00:01]
Composed by:william griffin/eric barrier[00:00:02]
Produced by:rakim[00:00:03]
One two[00:00:06]
Yeah uhh yeah[00:00:13]
Rough enough to break New York[00:00:19]
From long island[00:00:20]
Yeah it's the God baby[00:00:21]
Long island's own[00:00:24]
Barbarian of the microphone[00:00:27]
Rough enough to break New York[00:00:29]
From long island[00:00:31]
And the streets just a couple of miles east of Mecca[00:00:32]
Where peeps touch nuttin but style heat and cheddar[00:00:34]
Compete witcha livelihood to eat better[00:00:37]
And ain't nuttin sweet but the ladies who speak wetta[00:00:39]
With a torn smile tryin to get my song on file[00:00:42]
It's on now the whole town done gone wild[00:00:45]
Kick rhymes off my heartbeat as a unborn child[00:00:47]
Then developed a strong style on long isle[00:00:50]
Won't be long now I started rhymin young[00:00:52]
I designed for fun knowin my time would come[00:00:55]
I started payin dues djin with crews[00:00:58]
Learnin the inner city rules conveyin the news[00:01:00]
Soon as the jam start the man's art'll jam parks[00:01:03]
Slam so hard it remains a landmark[00:01:06]
The rhyme that I'm stylin[00:01:08]
Smooth as a violin[00:01:10]
But rough enough to break[00:01:11]
New york from long island[00:01:12]
Drop and up[00:01:16]
Drop and up[00:01:19]
Drop and up[00:01:21]
And break New York from long island[00:01:22]
Like any God loose on a spree for new degrees[00:01:24]
Things to do and see un'til nuttin is new to me[00:01:27]
A true MC usually be into a breeze[00:01:29]
And I can s'till see New York city through the trees[00:01:32]
My advance slams put you outside lookin in[00:01:34]
Or the other way around that depends look again[00:01:37]
Took a pen so you could zero in on my book of gems[00:01:39]
It extends from the hamptons to brook-lyn[00:01:42]
Through every hoodie in town[00:01:45]
To learn the boogie down[00:01:46]
'Til every dj around wanted to put me down[00:01:47]
Rhymes got rougher 'til I was ready to blast off[00:01:50]
And harass all from suffolk county to nassau[00:01:53]
Where we keep the money pilin[00:01:55]
Keep the honies smilin[00:01:56]
Keep the heater just in[00:01:58]
Case kids start whylin[00:01:59]
The rhyme that I'm stylin smooth as a violin[00:02:00]
Rough enough to break[00:02:03]
New york from long island[00:02:04]
Rough enough[00:02:08]
Rough enough rough enough[00:02:11]
To break New York from long island[00:02:14]
Rough enough[00:02:19]
Rough enough rough enough[00:02:21]
Rough enough to break New York from long island[00:02:24]
Grew up in wyndanch formerly known as crime-danch[00:02:26]
Me and my mans we travel lands to find jams[00:02:29]
Where violence usually ends in sirens[00:02:32]
By all means we all fiend for finance[00:02:34]
We make cash on the street called straight path[00:02:37]
We take class build with the gods with great math[00:02:40]
Everyday true to the street and never fronted[00:02:42]
Along the way learned from the best that ever done it[00:02:45]
Bein exposed to life's highs and lows[00:02:47]
Got my flows ready for shows I'm ready for the pros[00:02:50]
I put it on a tape and then the city I tested[00:02:53]
Then on the radio the r's requested[00:02:55]
Now the whole world's whylin all the girls smilin[00:02:58]
You know it's on soon as they let the crowd in[00:03:00]
The rhyme that I'm stylin smooth as a violin[00:03:03]
Rough enough to break New York[00:03:06]
From long island[00:03:07]
Rough enough[00:03:11]
Rough enough[00:03:14]
Rough enough[00:03:16]
From long island[00:03:18]
Rough enough[00:03:21]
Rough enough[00:03:27]
To break New York from long island[00:03:27]
Rough enough[00:03:37]
To break New York from long island[00:03:38]
Rough enough[00:03:42]
Rough rough rough rough[00:03:45]
Rough enough[00:03:47]
To break New York from long island[00:03:48]