
Date of issue: 31.12.2007
Record label: Virgin Records America
Song language: English
Respect The Architect |
«So respect the architect» |
«So respect the architect, as I begin to build» |
I’m mystical, don’t be deceived by the visual |
Visible preference is pure, patent it back to metaphors |
Greetin em Illa-del-style wild |
Analyze my memoirs, runnin on 8/4, poetic, me-ter |
Soarin way beyond |
Iambic pentameter, or juvenile flam |
Unsyncopated soul piercin earlobes and egos |
My vocals read these thoughts — am I hardcore? |
To the grain |
Lame game plain Jane MC’s can’t approach these |
I shake chumps like fleas, I hold the keys |
To drive you, guide you, provide you |
With the real joints, ahem I clear my throat of phlegm |
The architect, selecting the blueprints |
To rid the game of nuisance |
Sucker reducin with the fusion |
Rhymes solid like cement in my musical solution |
Stackin concrete flows, look out below |
«So respect the architect» |
«So respect the architect… as I begin to build» |
Floor to ceiling, constantly building |
With power to construct, towers of rap CREAM kid, what? |
Dreamin you’re lyrical physical mystical? |
Your concept’s mediocre plus your way too typical withcha |
Corny delivery and crazy wack voice |
Mad corny image, that’s why I give you jitters |
It figures, I’d have to dust you off the scene |
Like a wiseguy, with my New York lean |
Lines that I supply fortify the nuclei of mindstate |
From state to state, universal, be the orals that I create |
Top notch and on lock like Sentry, opponents could never tempt me Samplin my style like an Akai S-950 and still can’t get with me While I spread this verbal plague like bubonic |
Conductin phonics like the Philharmonics |
I make in measured melody, kids praise me like the crucifix |
So place Bahamad', amongst your top ten of emcees |
«So respect the architect» |
«So respect the architect… as I begin to build» |
Yeah, neverending, knahmsayin? |
Always buildin |
My homegirl Bahamadia in the hidouse, yeah yeah |
And of course, my man the legend |
Ramsey Lewis |
So respect the architect, knahmsayin? |
One love |
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Artist lyrics: Guru
Artist lyrics: Bahamadia
Artist lyrics: Buckwild