The Last Emperor - Echo Leader lyrics

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[Verse 1]

Broadcasting live from Ice Station Zebra

I break over beats made to blow out your speaker

The Jim Morrison of hip hop nice to meet ya

But where the hell are Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger

The tricks of the trade get rich and get paid

Launch your career but your flights been delayed

I slaughter ballers, send players to their grave

And I'm takin' out all you bloodsuckers like Blade (aghh!)

I'm from the city that left the Liberty Bell cracked

The Constitution's release party was held at

Matter of fact, tell your crew to get the hell back

Or I'ma eat these cats like *that alien from Melmac (he's talking about Alf, the tv show with the alien, Alf, who ate cats and was from the planet Melmac)* (hah!)

To all my backpackers, mallrats and slackers

Cyber trackers, players, poets and actors

You wanna know what it's like to be down with my team?

Like the Centurians, "now we're extreme!"

[chorus]

Echo Leader One to Echo Leader Two!

We have an intruder and he's right in front of you!

Echo Leader Two to Echo Leader One!

I got him in my sights the meltdown has begun!

Freedom fighters in the street, rock rock on,

If you rockin' to this beat, rock rock on,

Bring the fire and the heat, rock rock on,

In the face of defeat rock what?! Rock ON!

[Verse 2]

(Hmm) I've got a suspicious intuition

A new day is dawning, so come on and get with it

Find a more tactical, practical position

For these emcees who try to sabotage the mission

While some lay it down I carry the sound with me

I might play the ground and study who's down with me

In order for this joint right here to sound gritty

We did pre-production in an underground city (yes!)

Wearing post apocalyptic underground gear

'Cause we haven't seen natural sunlight in twelve years

I gotta sound astronauts can't wait to hear

So I speak loud enough to reach Space Station Mir

We can take it there in fact, I might order ya

The direction of rap has gotten cornier

It's time to replace the pain with euphoria

Make the crowd jump high like Masai Warriors

I kick back, relax, unwind my true nature

Catch wreck like James Bond in Moonraker

Whether flora, fauna, marsupial or mammalia

Test the Last Emp and end up a complete failure

[chorus]

[Verse 3]

Echo Leader One I'm goin' in cover me

So we can make the world bounce like it's rubbery

I got ivy league college lovin' me

Every rhyme I write is like assignment discovery

Let me take a few seconds in order to relish

The good vibrations from the moment that I felt it

I knew I'd break mics that are well bolted and welded

'Cause I'm hard like takin' off the Juggernaut's helmet (Hooah!)

I may not be the most muscular of men

But my songs are strong with the power to pretend

My job to defend against any man who enters

The stage that I call my urban command center

I made it consolidated, with just four bars

Place your bets and get out your score card

My mother always told me to reach for the stars

Now I got the first black owned business on Mars

From lasers and photons to dragons and giants (yeah)

The Ackbar, the Dogon, the Aztecs, the Mayans (yeah)

If obedience is just as old as defiance

Be an Echo Leader for this Rebel Alliance!

[chorus]

Echo Leader One, Echo Leader Two

intruder alert and he's right in front of you.

Echo Leader Two to Echo Leader One

I got him in my sights the meltdown has begun.

Freedom fighters in the streets, rock rock on,

If you rockin' to this beat, rock rock on,

Bring the fire and the heat, rock rock on,

In the face of defeat rock what? Rock on.

Thanks to Scott for these lyrics