[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