Eric B. & Rakim - I Ain't No Joke Lyrics
I ain't no joke, I use to let the mic smoke
Now I slam it when I'm done and make sure it's broke
When i'm gone no one gets on cuz I won't let
Nobody press up and mess up the seen I set
I like to stand in a crowd and watch the people wonder damn
I'm just an addict addicted to music
Maybe it's a habit, I gotta use it
Even if it's jazz or the quiet storm
I hook a beat up convert it into hip-hop form
Write a rhyme in graffitti in every show you see me in
Deep concentration, cuz I'm no comedian
Jokers are wild if you wanna be tamed
I treat you like a child then you're gonna be named
Another enemy, not even a friend of me
Cuz you'll get fried in the end when you pretend to be
and I complete when - you compare my rhyme wit yours
I wake you up and as I stare in your face you seem stunned
Remember me, the one you got your idea from
But soon you start to suffer, the tune'll get rougher
When you start to stutter that's when you had enuff of
Biting, it'll make you choke, you can't provoke
You can't cope, you should've broke because I ain't no joke
I got a question, as serious as cancer
Who can keep the average dancer
Hyper as a heart attack nobody smiling
Cuz you're expressing the rhyme that I'm styling
This is what we all sit down to write
You can't make it so you take it home, break it and bite
Use pieces and bits of all the hip-hop hits
Get the style down pat then it's time to switch
Put my tape on pause and add some more to yours
Then you fake it you're ready for the neighborhood chores
The E-M-C-E-E don't even try to be
When you come up to speak, don't even lie to me
You like to exaggerate, dream and imaginate
Then change the rhyme around, that can aggravate me
So when you see me come up, freeze
Or you'll be one of those 7 MC's
They think that I'm a new jack but only if they knew that
They who think wrong are they who can't do that
Style that I'm doing, they might ruin
Patterns and paragraphs based on you and
Your offbeat DJ, if anything he play
Sound familiar, I'll wait til E say
Play 'em, so I'ma have to diss and bro
You could get a smack for this, I ain't no joke
I hold the microphone like a grudge
B'll hold the record so the needle don't budge
I hold a conversation cuz when I invent
I nominated my DJ to president
When I'm see I'll, keep a freestyle, going steadily
So pucker up and whistle my melody
But whatever you do, don't miss one
They'll be another rough rhyme after this one
Before you know it, you're following and fiending
Waiting for the punchline to get the meaning
Like before the middle of my story I'm telling
Nobody beats the R so stop yelling
Save it, put it in your pocket for later
Cuz I'm moving the crowd and B'll wreck the fader
No interruptions til the mic is broke
When I'm gone, then you can joke
Cuz everything is real on a serious tip
Keep playing and I varies quick
And take you for a walk through hell
Freeze your dome then watch your eyeballs swell
Guide you out of triple stage darkness
When it get dark again then I'ma spark this
Microphone cuz the heat is on, you see smoke
then I finish when the beat is gone, I'm no joke
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- Eric B. & Rakim - Teach The Children
- Eric B. & Rakim - Pass The Hand Grenade
- Eric B. & Rakim - Casualties Of War
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- Eric B. & Rakim - The Punisher
- Eric B. & Rakim - Relax With Pep
- Eric B. & Rakim - Keep The Beat
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- Eric B. & Rakim - Know The Ledge (Juice)
- Eric B. & Rakim - Don't Sweat The Technique
Rand Lyrics
Eric B. & Rakim I Ain't No Joke Comments
I miss these days and these two.
Life......working as a security guard now. I was 17......
We went backwards bros 😭
🙏🙏🙏
1:07 💓🔥
👇 👇 👇💯
Wisdom= wise words being spoken.
A E.M.C.E.E don't even try to be, when you come up to speak don't even lie to me. Bless the Mic for the Gods.
5.1k dislikes. You gotta be kidding me
The God Of Hip Hop
5.1k lost sheep in the wilderness
R.O.B. UNiQUE Indeed 😔
Kids 2day still can't come close...
real hip hop
Sound of my childhood
To all fans of the culture interested in what a true MC is and what rap music is in its rawest pursuit uncut form this is it!
🔊🎶🔊🎼🔊🎵
👍🏿✊🏿👌🏿
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
‘Show me your genitals’
This... is... Rap...
who considered R a joke in first place ?
Lyrical GENIUS!! ✊🏾❤🖤💚
Du Fo**e sagst Kollegah rappt wie Rakim?
It is Puff Daddy?
I ain't no joke 2020
Better than these young cats who be using nursery rhyme patterns
Who was here because 2k13 and 2k18😂💯💯💯💯
Rakim best rapper ever. From ALGERIA (north AFRICA).
I got a question is as serious as cancer....damn. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🥵
Hell yeah
This is spiritual. Rakim was on another level
"Eric B & Rakim told you 'i ain't no joke.'"- Lil Keke
This is REAL RAP
Yeeea boiii Flava in the house
Rakim is The Godfather
Flavor Flav killin that dance
DAD: GO UPSTAIRS. ME & ASHTON:why ? DAD:we got BIGGER JBL speakers in your room. ME & ASHTON : oh.
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Impressive video, i delight it so much ... Number-one part is 1:17. *I up 1 twerk, Plsss check and tell what you think* 💃 🧡 💘
💗 prodigious 💛 💛
💯 breathtaking 💯
Straight flow and no profanity. Rakim was a monster!
Legend!
2k13 anyone
"Put your mind on pause" damn
Still rocking this in 2019 and in 2020
Hah flavor flav
This jam is SICK!!
Who the hell wouldn't give this a like????
Chris S one of those 7 MCs
2020 still hoter than today's shit
2020 and it's still fire 🔥🔥🔥
Eric B for president
This is who 21 Savage thinks he is
The original God MC Rakim 🎤 👑
Rakim never had a to cuss and never talked about selling dope, only about how good of a Lyricist he is on the Microphone!!! Greatest rapper and DJ in HISTORY!!!!!!!
This how Trump doin' these Demonrats!
Trounced!
This rhyme changed the game !!
À mostrò fratè sì ò gas proprio 💪💪💪🔥🔥🔥😍😍😍😎😎😎🙏🙏🙏
Imagine how much of a loser you have to be in order to give this a thumbs down 😂
5000 thumbs down???? wtf??? This is the true and living right here!
침착맨
ok boomer
Classic
Rakim was the Dr in the 80s
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smooth as silk 🖤
Bump that Shit Homie.
2019 watching 👑✊🏾
YALL SEEE THE FLAVVVVVV IN HERE PUBLIC ENEMY #1
Back in the days when Circuit City was the spot to buy yo gadgets
✨❤️😈😈😈😈❤️❤️😈✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
Three minutes and 53 seconds of pure lyrical FIRE!!!
who else listening to this forever besides me? ✨💫🌈
Lewesley Acklin Me Ⓜ️
@danni dany that's was up brother ✌
this song is the definition of DOPE (addicted to music I gotta use it💥💥💥💥💣💣💣)
Still cuts
2019/2020 anyone?
Lucas Ramboo 05-12-2019 Ⓜ️e
danni dany
I guess its only we 🙃
Track Suits 💪🏾💯
Literally the best song on nba 2k13 no cap
DMX meeting Rakim for the first time ever.
The 5k+ dislikes are from people with no history knowledge in Hip hop routes....
I'm here cuz I had a nostalgic itch I had to scratch, and Eric B scratched it. No joke.
The Source called him THE GREATEST EVER FOR LYRICS!!!!
He has a book out please buy it!!!!!
I would've snatched his chain
you woulda got whooped
@Lewesley Acklin ha
I just played this in my car real loud and heads still bopping outside 2019!
If your not versed in Eric b and Rakim your lost before you ever started REALLY "Doin it 4 THE CULTURE"
Where is eric B????? IS THEY TWINS???
billiejean benoit he the one on the beat
Just pure hip hop (rap)
Harlem... The Mic God
Never say that you gangsta, now that's gangsta
Not a single N word and still 🔥
https://soundcloud.com/daniel-boyce-793024899/sets/a-ce-and-d-yung
2:37 the conclusion endless bars!!!!!!!!!
1:24 the board meeting
Legendary!🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Real music jammin in 2019
Rakim is the G.O.A.T.
You are the best , and M&M is just candy, nobody can flow like you.
anyone here from All-American?
Can someone telle where i can find a time machine cause iam out of here going back to the 80s
todays rap and hip hop is a joke!!! hip hop from the 80s and 90s like rakim and a tribe called quest arent and never will be
This song set the stage for everything I would become and I thank God I was raised in that era $
This video too ill. I’m 20 and tried to put my peeps on but they laughed in my face. I’ll keep it to myself I guess😂
This cat said he'll guide you out of triple stage darkness........damn!