[00:00.000] 作词 : Griffin, Phillips [00:00.10]The 18th Letter (Always And Forever) - Rakim [00:00.20]Written by:Isaac Hayes/Rakim/S. Phillips/William Griffin/Scott Phillips [00:00.765]What uhh yo [00:02.516]Just when things seemed the same [00:04.677]And the whole scene is lame [00:05.722]I come and reign with the unexplained [00:06.920]For the brains till things change [00:08.504]They strain to slang sling [00:09.832]I'm trained to bring game [00:11.424]History that I arranged been [00:13.143]Regained by king james [00:14.263]Go to practice with tactics [00:16.152]When the track hits theatrics [00:17.823]Women that look like actress [00:18.671]The status of cleopatra's [00:20.560]Stacks of mathematics [00:21.615]Took the [00:22.71]Ego a geatics [00:23.23]As I find out what the facts is [00:25.63]For geographic [00:26.06]No time to sip mo's with hostess [00:28.78]Never mind what the total gross is [00:29.606]I rip shows stay focused [00:30.903]And split cheese with soldiers [00:32.254]While you hit trees and coast [00:33.431]I spit flows that be ferocious [00:35.107]And with these explosives [00:36.764]I split seas for moses [00:38.129]Shine permanently only [00:39.211]My mind's concernin me [00:40.483]Fire burns in me eternally time's eternity [00:43.131]Followers turn on me [00:44.755]They'll be in a mental infirmary [00:46.548]Determinely advance technology [00:48.424]Better than germany [00:49.369]Since the first days you know of [00:51.432]Till the last days is over [00:52.616]I was always the flow er [00:54.56]I made waves for noah [00:55.392]From a compound [00:56.432]To the anatomy [00:57.304]To the breakdown of a atom [00:58.664]Some of my rap patterns [00:59.784]Still surround saturn [01:01.585]From the ancient hieroglyphics [01:02.991]To graffiti painted pictures [01:04.325]I study I know the scriptures [01:05.753]But nowaday ain't it vicious [01:07.82]Date back I go beyond [01:08.640]Check the Holy Qu'ran [01:09.976]To speeches at the altar on [01:11.651]Now we get our party on [01:13.91]So being beneficent [01:14.411]I bless em with dialogue [01:16.67]They expectin the next testament by the god [01:19.09]I blow em through battlezones [01:20.258]With chrome for chaperone [01:21.658]Blast beats with saxophones [01:23.90]One of the baddest rapper's known [01:24.713]Every country city and borough [01:26.440]Sidestreet and ghetto [01:27.620]Isle and alley and meadow theories [01:28.943]Ferile enough to echo [01:30.683]When it was one mass of land [01:32.235]With one nash'of man [01:33.619]And the whole mass was [01:34.742]Ran under one master plan [01:36.725]Since the world's metamorphis [01:37.989]And the plan is kept in orbit [01:39.517]Turntables we spin off but the [01:40.766]Needles never skip off it [01:42.62]Rhythms we expressin [01:43.638]Similar to our ancestors [01:45.165]It'll answer your questions if you [01:47.188]Understand the message [01:48.467]From the days of the slave choppers [01:49.860]To the new age of prophets [01:51.382]As heavy as hip hop is [01:52.487]I'm always ready to drop it [01:53.839]From the mind which [01:55.47]Is one of Allah's best designs [01:56.719]And mines'll stand the test of time [01:59.263]When I rhyme [02:00.07]The 18th letter the prophesy professor [02:03.111]I stay clever long as the [02:04.791]Planet stay together [02:05.914]Bring up praise from mecca [02:07.169]Make a phrase for the better [02:08.769]In new days to remember [02:10.289]Always and forever [02:11.802]The 18th letter the prophesy professor [02:14.747]I stay clever long as the [02:16.349]Planet stay together [02:17.581]Bring up praise from mecca [02:18.933]Make a phrase for the better [02:20.653]In new days to remember [02:22.53]Always and forever [02:23.518]The r baby