*piano playing for 1:02 before the beginning of the main song*

[Eric B] "Clap your hands" cut and scratched 6X

[Rakim] Put your hands together... clap your hands

Verse One: Rakim

This is for thousands of people who came

A show from road to road you're entertained

I don't even have to say my name

Cause when the place is ripped in half I'm to blame

Masses of posses packed up schemin

Ladies lovely and keep on screamin

Go Rakim, go Rakim, go

It won't be long then it's on with the show

I'm late, so hit the brakes and park the Benzito

Double oh seven, incognito

Sneak in the back door, lookin for the stage

When I get on you react in a rage

People from side to side and front to back

won't dance, if the MC's wack

The crowd go psycho even if I don't move

Some like the groove cause I'm so smooth

Then somethin happens, feet start tappin

You can't hold back when Rakim's rappin

The man you've been waitin for, rougher than ever

Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together

[Eric B] "Clap your hands" cut and scratched 8X

[Rakim] Clap your hands

Verse Two: Rakim

I create em, take em, shake em, then make em clap to this

Most of you rappers, can't even rap to this

I made it faster, you tried to master

Syncopated styles, words flowin after

Measures of metaphor definitions of more than one

Take it both ways, I'll be here when you're done

Remember as the rhyme goes on it's rougher

Soon as I stop, you had enough of

Followin footsteps, you better turn back soon

Sucker MC's suck rhymes like vacuums

The style remains the