ERIC B. & RAKIM - I Ain't No Joke lyrics

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I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke<br>Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke<br>When I'm gone I wrote this song cuz I won't let<br>Nobody press up and mess up to seen I set<br>I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder damn<br>Bu think about it then you'll understand<br>I'm just an addict addicted to music<br>Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it<br>Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm<br>I hook a beat up convert it in a hip-hop form<br>Write a rhyme in graffitti in every show you see me in<br>Deep concentration cuz I'm no comedian<br>Jokers are wild if you wanna be tame<br>I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named<br>Another enemy, not even a friend of me<br>Cuz you'll get fried in the end if you pretend to be<br>? can be? cuz I just put your mind on pause<br>And I can beat you when you compare my rhyme wit yours<br>I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stun<br>Remember me, the one you got your idea from<br>But soon you start to suffer but you only get rougher<br>When you start to stutter that's when you had enuff of<br>Biting it, I make you choke, you can't provoke<br>You can't cope, you should of broke cuz I ain't no joke<br><br>I got a question, it's serious as cancer<br>Who can keep the average dancer<br>Hyper as a heart attack nobody smiling<br>Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling<br>This is what we all sit down to write<br>You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite<br>Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits<br>Get the style down pack then it's time to ? swit? <br>Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours<br>Then you figure you're ready for the neighborhood chores<br>The e-m-c-e-e don't even try to be<br>When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me<br>You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate<br>Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me<br>So when you see me come up, freeze<br>Or you'll be one of those 7 mc's<br>They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that<br>They who think wrong are they who can't do that<br>Style that I'm doing, they might ruin<br>Patterns of paragraphs based on you and<br>Your offbeat dj, if anything he play<br>Sound familiar, I'll wait til e say<br>Play 'em, so i'ma have to dis and broke<br>You could get a smack for this, I ain't no joke<br><br>I hold the microphone like a grudge<br>B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge<br>I hold a conversation cuz when I invent<br>I nominated my dj the presdient<br>When I'm see i'll, people freestyle, going steadily<br>So pucker up and whistle my melody<br>But whatever you do, don't miss one<br>They'll be another rough rhyme after this one<br>Before you know it, you're following and fiending<br>Waiting for the punchline to get the meaning<br>Like before the middle of my story I'm telling<br>Nobody beats the r so stop yelling<br>Save it, put it in your pocket for later<br>Cuz I'm moving the crowd and be a record fader<br>No interruptions and the mic is broke<br>When I'm gone, then you can joke<br>Cuz everything is real on a serious tip<br>Keep playing and I varies quick<br>And take you for a walk through hell<br>Feed your dome then watch your eyeballs swell<br>Guide you out of triple stage darkness<br>When it get dark again then i'ma spark this<br>Microphone cuz the heat is on, you see smoke<br>And I'm finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke