Verse One: 



Follow me into a solo 

Get in the flow - and you can picture like a photo 

Music mixed mellow maintains to make

Melodies for MC's motivates the breaks 

I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days 

With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays 

I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT 

Now it's a daily word 

I can get iller than 'Nam, a killin bomb

But no alarm - Rakim will remain calm 

Self-esteem make me super superb and supreme 

But for a microphone still I fiend 

This was a tape I wasn't supposed to break 

I was supposed to wait, but let's motivate 

I want to see who can keep followin and swallowin 

Takin the making, bitin it and borrowin 

Brothers tried and others died to get the formula 

But I'ma let ya sweat - you still ain't warm

You a step away from frozen, stiff as if ya posin 

Dig into my brain as the rhyme gets chosen 

So follow me and were ya thinkin' you were first?

Let's travel at magnificent speeds around the Universe 

What could ya say as the Earth gets further and further away 

Planets are small as balls of clay 

Astray into the Milky Way - world's outasight 

Far as the eye can see - not even a satellite 

Now stop and turn around and look 

As ya stare in the darkness, ya knowledge is took! 

So keep starin soon ya suddenly see a star 

You better follow it cause it's the R 

This is a lesson if ya guessin and if ya borrowin

Hurry hurry step right up and keep followin 

The Leader 



Verse Two: 



This is a lifetime mission, vision of prison 

Aight listen 

In this journey you're the journal I'm the journalist 

Am I Eternal? Or an eternalist? 

I'm about to flow long as I can possibly go 

Keep ya movin cause the crowd said so 

Dance - cuts rip ya pants 

Eric B on the blades, bleedin to death - call the ambulance

Pull out my weapon and start to squeeze 

A magnum as a microphone murderin' MC's 

Let's quote a rhyme from a record I wrote 

(follow the leader) Yeah - dope 

Cause everytime I stop it seems ya stuck 

Soon as ya try to step off ya self-destruct 

I came to overcome before I'm gone 

By showin and provin and lettin knowledge be born 

Then after that I'll live forever - you disagree? 

You say never? Then follow me! 

From century to century you'll remember me 

In history - not a mystery or a memory 

God by nature, mind raised in Asia 

Since you was tricked, I have to raise ya 

From the cradle to the grave, but remember 

You're not a slave 

Cause we was put here to be much more than that 

But we couldn't see it because our mind was trapped 

But I'm here to break away the chains, take away the pains 

Remake the brains, reveal my name 

I guess nobody told you a little knowledge is dangerous 

It can't be mixed, diluted; it can't be changed or switched 

Here's a lesson if ya guessing and borrowing 

Hurry hurry, step right up and keep following 

The leader 



Verse Three: 



A furified freestyle, lyrics of fury 

My third eye makes me shine like jewelry 

You're just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid 

I'll be here when it fade to watch you flip like a renegade 

I can't wait to break and eliminate 

On every traitor or snake - so stay awake 

and follow and follow, because the tempo's a trail 

The stage is a cage, the mic is a third rail 

I'm Rakim the Fiend of a Microphone 

I'm not HIM, so leave my mic alone 

Soon as the beat is felt, I'm ready to go 

So fasten your seatbelt, cause I'm about to flow 

No need to speed slow down to let the leader lead 

Word to daddy, indeed! 

The R's a rollin stone, so I'm rollin 

Directions is told, then the rhymes are stolen 

Stop buggin', a brother said, dig em, I never dug 'em 

He couldn't follow the leader long enough so I drug 'em 

into danger zone, he should arrange his own

Face it, it's basic, erase it, change ya tone

There's one R in the alphabet 

It's a one-letter word and it's about to get 

More complex from one rhyme to the next 

Eric B be easy on the flex 

I've been from state to state, followers tailgate 

Keep comin but you came too late, but I'll wait 

So back up, regroup, get a grip, come equipped 

You're the next contestant - clap ya hands, you won a trip! 

The price is right - don't make a deal too soon 

How many notes could you name this tune? 

Follow the Leader is the title, theme, task 

Now ya know, you don't have to ask 

Rap is Rhythm And Poetry, cuts create sound effects 

You might catch up if you follow the records E. wrecks 

Until then keep eatin and swallowin 

You better take a deep breath and keep followin 

The leader.