I'd like to meet.... The world, and everybody in it! (In The Ghetto) I learn to relax in my room and escape from New York And return through the womb of the world as a thought. Thinking how hard it was to be born, BEING EQUIPPED with no physical form. Millions OF CELLS with one destination, To reach the best part, it's life creation. 9 months later, a job well done, Make way, 'cause here I come. Since I made it this far, I can't stop now, There's a will and a way and I got the know-how. To be all I can be and more, And see all there is to see before; I'M Called and go back to the essence, It's alot to learn so I study my lessons. I thought the ghetto was the worst that could happen to me, I'm glad I listen when my father was rapping to me. 'Cause: back in the days, they lived in caves, ExileD from the original man, a straight way. Now that's what I call hard times, I rather be here to exercise the mind. Then I take a thought around the world twice, From knowledge NEWBORN, back to knowledge precise. Across the desert, that's HOT AS THE ARABIAN, But they couldn't cave me in, 'cause I'm the Asian. Reaching for the city of Mecca, visit Medina, Visions of Neffertiti, then I seen'a Mind keeps traveling, I'll be back afta', I stop and think about the brothers and sisters in Africa. Return the thought through the eye of a needle, For miles I thought and I just fought the people. Under the dark skies on a dark side, Not only there but right here's an apartheid. So now is the time for us to react, Take a trip through the mind and when you get back; Understand your third eye seen all of that, It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at! Even the (ghetto)-Rakim
RAKIM.....The greatest of all time!! NAS, ICEBERG SLIM, E.P.M.D, N.W.A, A Tribe, Gangstar, MC EIHT, FRANK WHITE, PAC, Marshall Mathers, Puff, Mase, Jada, Dip Set, 3 6 Mafia, Young Bloodz, the whole dirty south/mid-west...chopped and screwed, slowed-down.......HIP HOP PERIOD! Sade, Sting, Bob Marley, Nirvana, Staind, The killers, 3 doors down, U2, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Marvin Gaye, Al green, The Jackson's, Fernandito Villalona, Merenge, Salsa, Bachata, Whatever sounds good to ME! Fuck the next person's opinion!!