- Votes:
 - Composers:
 - Griffin
 - William / Olsen
 - Bryon
 
- Genres:
 - Hip-Hop
 
- Tags:
 - hiphop classics
 - long island
 - new york
 - rap
 
- See also:
 
Rakim - How I Get Down lyrics
Before the dough came, my whole aim, was blow like propane
 Control the whole domain, and then show no shame
 Make rappers go [unverified] and they so lame, playin' with no game
 Put 'em on the lil plane 'til they can't claim no fame
 I got, the range, better, stay in the slow lane
 I make the flow change from hurricanes to a slow rain
 Your thoughts are so plane, I rearrange your whole frame
 Until my whole name grow out your brain like Romaine
 Letter by letter, I put words together
 Once merged, apart never, they be heard forever
 And then I grab a pen and stab him in his abdomen
 And smash him in, throw his mic like a javelin
 Then I explain verses, that remain on the surface
 At times it get deep, but I never defeat the purpose
 Never go out, to go the dough route, forever hold out
 I never sold out, for any amount, no doubt
 That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that
 I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track
 I start a party now everybody like rap
 Haters are mad 'cause they gave the R the mic back
 That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that
 I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track
 I start a party now everybody like rap
 Haters are mad 'cause they gave the R the mic back
 I like to hang where e'rythang seem to happen at
 (Y'know?)
 It's Ra's habitat, I'm like that czar Arafat
 And yes I have a gat, snap like a Israeli
 A terrorist I never miss blowin' up kids daily
 I step to writers, and let my virus hurt the closest
 I'm sick as hepatitis and worse than tuberculosis
 Pull out a pen, like a grenade, and drop it quick
 I strike again and I'ma get paid, exotic shitRakim - How I Get Down - http://motolyrics.com/rakim/how-i-get-down-lyrics.html
 You know the God ra be, hot as the Mojave
 Swing like King Usabi, my posse be kamikaze
 On the corners like I'm homeless and I, don't know where home is
 The bonus, is where the next open microphone is
 Me and my team, vision like a radar screen
 Intervene and yo, cut the mic off, 'cause Ra fiend
 To show the whole world some of the things I seen
 Then blow it up, like Edi Amin, yaknahmean?
 That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that
 I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track
 I start a party now everybody like rap
 Haters are mad 'cause they gave the R the mic back
 I do a thang thang, I write the songs they sing
 Make sure that they swing, from New York to Beijing
 Put your thoughts in the sling and your brain is gangrene
 Pull in the ring, repeatin' and sayin' the same thing
 Xerox, zero, no match, you ditto
 Copy machine, couldn't reprint my [unverified]
 My new style, that I produce now's beyond two-thou'
 I knew how, since a juvenile, to make a ka-pow
 When the night's fallin', I can hear the mic callin'
 I like ballin', I cut back like Mic Jordan
 This is for y'all while I'm spittin' literatures
 Lyrics'll ball like Allen Iverson dribble the ball
 They hopeless, whoever approaches my high explosives
 My vision sadicious, and freestyle's ferocious
 I wrote this, words flew over my head like a locust
 I turned the beat up, sat back, and stayed focused
 That's how I get down, so tell me how you like that
 I hit the town, hold it down on a tight track
 I start a party now everybody like rap
 Haters are mad 'cause they gave the R the mic back














