A Different Kind Lyrics
Rakim

A Different Kind Lyrics

[Intro]
I'm a different kind
My name carry heavy weight
I'm a different kind
For all it's worth, gettin' mine
All facts, I'm so ahead of my time
Set the record straight
On this straight block stretch that they call the Earth (Yeah)
How many rappers I killed spitting rhymes? (Uh)

[Verse 1]
Hit the restart or this won't end well, closed cyphers (That's right)
Only real artists, real skill, no biters (Uh)
Let your artificial intel, the flow virus
If this was hell, I'm Osiris to ghostwriters (Yeah)
The underground king control the surface again (Uh-huh)
Knowing for sure, spitting styles (Uh), swag-swеrving the trends
Leavе the mold broke so no one else on Earth can get in
Or close to perfect as him, if I was birthed with a twin (Look)
You can tell the difference
This is my Hannibal-on-an-elephant entrance (Uh-huh)
Like when the seventh angel blow the trumpet (Uh)
Not just to get it jumpin'
But to let you know it's a god in the circumference (That's right)
Twist the planet 'til the world black out, then [light it up ?][0:56]
This a parallel universe, then vice versa (Uh)
Mami spinning, she said a Tina need an Ike Turner (Uh-huh)
Money coming like money (Uh-huh) to the right earner
When the mic turn up, recitals spread horrifics (That's right)
Like you read in the glyphics, like it's said in the scriptures
This is my Great Flood flow, ask Noah, it's all over (Uh-huh)
The horror like the fall of (Uh), Sodom and Gomorrah (Uh)
A futuristic mind since the sec I was signed
By the end of my career, more than a vet in my prime (That's right)
Been here before, therefore left 'em behind
I'm Tesla in a new Tesla, ahead of my time
See Rakim Live
Get tickets as low as $120
[Chorus]
Different designs, I'm a different kind
Skinny nigga, but my name carry heavy weight
I'm a different kind
For all it's worth, still gettin' mine
All facts, I'm so ahead of my time
I'm just here to set the record straight
On this straight block stretch that they call the Earth
How many rappers I killed spitting rhymes?

[Verse 2]
Don't ask me where I buried 'em at (Shh)
Buried the body, buried the mic, buried the track (Uh-huh)
A killer taught me to mob, but even better than that
He said, "Ra, soon as you finish the job, bury the gat" (Uh)
[?][1:59] from metaphor wars in front of stores (Uh-huh)
To clap for us, full applause (Uh-huh), [to top rush tours ?]
From club brawls to just ball
To graffiti on the corner store wall to Hip-Hop Rushmore
[Then they rate me on ?][2:10] rock coke [?] a kilo
Like I'm Paul, Frank, Meech, Pablo, or Carlito (Uh-huh)
Roll, Jamie eyes closed, but I see, though
Mami say, "Take me to your castle, papito"
'Round mic, it's hard to control my ego (Uh-huh)
[?][2:24] ain't free, my show jalapeño (That's right)
Don't play, then pay me, need my quote, my C-notes
That's the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do
Still incognito with an omnipresence (Uh-huh)
Like I'm everywhere at once, that's my godly essence
I sat alone with Da Vinci's code to decode it
The one they gave Rosetta the stone to say she wrote it
The wordsmith of rap (Uh-huh), title is indescribable (Uh)
Can't explain it, find the right words, Rakim is that
Adjectives intensify verbs, cinematics (Uh-huh)
And this is just the tip of the iceberg, slimmest back