The 18th Letter (Always And Forever)

Rakim – 18th

Letter What, uhh, yo

Just when things seemed the same

And the whole scene is lame

I come and reign

With the unexplained

For the brains

Til things change

They strain

To sling slang

I’m trained

To bring game

History that

I arranged

Been regained

By King James

Go to practice

With tactics

When the track hits

Theatrics

Women that look like actress

The status

Of Cleopatra’s

Stacks of

Mathematics

To feed your

AG addicts

As I find out, what the facts is

For geographic

No time To sip mo’s with hostess

Never mind

What the total gross is

I rip shows

Stay focused

And split cheese

With soldiers

While you hit trees

And coast

I spit flows

That be ferocious

And with these explosives

I split seas

For Moses

Shine permanently

Only my mind’s

Concernin' me

Fire burns in me

Eternally

Times Eternity

Followers turn on me

They’ll be in a mental infirmary

Determinedly

Advance technology

Better than

Germany Since the first days you know of

Til the last days is over

I was always the flower

I made waves for

Noah From a compound

To the anatomy

To the breakdown

Of a atom

Some of my rap patterns

Still surround

Saturn From the ancient hieroglyphics

To graffiti painted pictures

I study I know the scriptures

But nowadays ain’t it vicious

Date back

I go beyond

Check the

Holy Quran

To speeches at the autobahn

Now we get our party on

So being beneficent

I bless 'em with dialogue

They expectin'

The next testament

By the God

I blow 'em through battle zones

With chrome

For chaperon

Blast beats with saxophones

One of the baddest

Rappers Known

Every country city

And borough

Side street

And ghetto

Isle And alley

And meadow

Theories fertile

Enough to echo

When it was one mass of land

With one nat'(nationality) of man

And the whole mass was ran

Under one master plan

Since the world’s metamorphosis

And the plan is kept in orbit

Turntables we spin off it

But the needles never skip off it

Rhythms we expressin'

Similar to our ancestors

It’ll answer your questions

If you understand the message

From the days of the slave chopping

To the new age of prophets

As heavy as hip-hop is

I’m always ready to drop it

From the mind

Which is one of

Allah’s best designs

And mines’ll

Stand the test of time

When I rhyme [chorus x2]

The 18th letter

The prophesy professor

I stay clever

Long as the planet stay together

Bring up praise from

Mecca Make a phrase for the better

In new days to remember

Always and forever

The R, baby