Rakim
Rakim - Won't Be Long lyrics
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[Intro: Rakim] In the words of the late great... Martin Luther King: "How long? Not long" [beat starts] [11 seconds insrtumental] Won't be long... Uh-huh! Uh, uh! Sing along! [Chorus: (Rakim)] [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong (uh-huh!) 'til the trouble and the struggle is gooooone. The hustle make the struggle get gooooone. [Rakim:] It's hard to make a move, we strugglin'! (uh-huh!) Everybody hate to lose (uh!) but they love to win. (uh!) [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong 'til the world sings the words to our sooooong. (sing along!) That way we forever live ooooon! (uh!) [Rakim:] Back on my grind, I'm hustlin'. (uh-huh!) It's just a matter (uh-huh!) of time an' I'll come up again! (uhh!) [Rakim:] They told me hustle never prolong But I got caught up in the struggle like a slow song. (uh-huh!) Cause my love and respect for this is so strong I question the state of Hip-Hop (uh), major labels, et cetera and so on! (uh!) The show'll go on. - Still fiend to get my blow on But if it's like this, then I might quit. But hold on! (uh!) - This can only go wrong - but for so long (uh-huh!) Get right quick or I might flip! Try to keep a tight lip, not to complain (sssssshhhhhhh!) Ramblin', mind scramblin' cause patience ain't blockin' the pain. (uh-uh!) Mic' sick, lyrics is still locked in the brain, (uh- huh!) Like Mike Vick sittin' in jail watchin' the game. (uh!) I wait 'til the day I (day I!) - play my position (ch'eah!) Or should I say the day I - obey my addiction. (uh- huh!) Then complete my legacy (uh!) Without compromisin' my artistic integrity. (c'mon!) [Chorus: (Rakim) {Tracey Horton}] [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong (won't be long!) 'til the trouble and the struggle is gooooone. (uh!) The hustle make the struggle get gooooone. [Rakim:] It's hard to make a move, we strugglin'! Everybody hate to lose but they love to win. {yeeeaahhhhhh! hmmmmmmmm!} [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong {OOOH!} 'til the world sings the words to our sooooong. (no words!) That way we forever live ooooon! {OOOH!} [Rakim:] Back on my grind, I'm hustlin'. (yeah, it's true!) It's just a matter of time (uh!) an' I'll come up again! (uh-huh!) [Rakim:] So when they ask where I go from here (go 'head!) The road and the goal is clear (uh!) but it's so severe. (uh!) Sometimes I feel like lettin' go, I swear I had setbacks my whole career. (straight y'all!) Messin' with my grind's like messin' with my mind (uh!) But yo! - I'm still breathin', so I guess it's just a sign. (uh-huh!) But it's meaning to the message in the lines (word up!) Some things happen for a reason (uh!) like a blessin' in disguise. But success was in my eyes, the shine was blindin' me The fame and a little bit of change, it took some time to see! The lesson for the wise - profit more. (uh!) Time to be a record and the prize (uh-huh!) was poppin' off. (uh!) Finally I made a couple of moves. - Got my own label (gotta get it!) Me and a couple of dudes, we at the dope table. (let's get that money!) Took a oath to stay true (uh!) now it's an empire Put out the new Rakim album and it's fire! [Chorus: (Rakim) {Tracey Horton}] [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong (uhh!) 'til the trouble and the struggle is gooooone. (won't be long!) The hustle make the struggle get gooooone. (won't be long!) [Rakim:] It's hard to make a move, we strugglin'! (uhh!) Everybody hate to lose but they love to win. {yeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh!} {OOOOH!} [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong 'til the world sings the words to our sooooong. {OOOOH!} That way we forever live ooooon! (uh-huh!) [Rakim:] Back on my grind, I'm hustlin'. (yeah!) It's just a matter of time (uh-huh!) an' I'll come up again! (yeah!) [Rakim:] Feel like I'm back where I belong when I'm in the booth (uh!) Produce and perform at my pinnacle. (uh-huh!) Speak the truth in my songs and my interviews (the truth!) For the youth and my dons and my women, too! (uh-huh!) Guap insisted. - Watch your bidness with a drama, dunn. (get that money!) Hustlers is where we get persona from! Gotta get it, not just wish a dollar come (uh, go get it!) We optimistic since Obama won. But these days of recession We ain't safe yet! (uh-uh!) - Pray! - A paycheck away from the Great Depression. (uh!) Major stressin'! - But we wait for blessings Long as the Federal Reserve still paper pressing. (uh!) I wrote the plot - for gettin' this cabbage in the hood (uh-huh!) Where the average cat can triple his status in the hood. Don't stop! - 'Til we livin' lavish in the hood (uh- huh!) I'm like Barack (uh!) with "The Stimulus Package" (uh!) in the hood. [Chorus: (Rakim) {Tracey Horton}] [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong 'til the trouble and the struggle is gooooone. (soon it's over!) The hustle make the struggle get gooooone. {ooooooohhhhh-ohhhhhhh!} [Rakim:] It's hard to make a move, we strugglin'! (uh-huh!) Everybody hate to lose but they love to win. {yeee- aahhh-yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!} [Tracey H.:] It won't be looooong {OOOOH!} 'til the world sings the words to our sooooong. {OOOOH!} That way we forever live ooooon! (you know the words, sing along!) {OOOOH!} [Rakim:] Back on my grind, I'm hustlin'. It's just a matter of time {OOOOH!} an' I'll come up again! {OOOOH!} [Bridge: Tracey Horton (Rakim)] It won't be looooong (stay focused!) 'til the trouble and the struggle is gooooone. (change gon' come!) The hustle make the struggle get gooooone. (just be ready for it!) [beat fades out] It won't be looooong 'til the world sings the words to our sooooong.) That way we forever live ooooon!