Rakim Lyrics

Album: The 18th Letter

Mystery (Who Is God) Lyrics

[interviewer possibly Harry Allen] 

What is the one main thing that you have 

that you would want people to remember you by? 

Or not one but the those things that are dear to you 

that you would want to be remembered as 

[Rakim] 

I guess I guess it's my words man yaknahmean? 

Just my words and if people remember my words they'll remember me forever 

Y'know? God by nature mind raised in Asia y'know? 

But umm... it's like y'know to live forever you you you gotta 

set y'know, not not set trends but you gotta 

apply yourself a certain way and you gotta do certain things y'know? 

Maybe, maybe when I'm gone twenty years from now 

Somebody might be tellin, tellin they little son 

"Oh yo you think Shorty bad? Yo I 'member this cat way back 

in like nineteen-ninety. Kid named Rakim, bananas." 

YouknowhatI'msayin? If that can happen man, I'm aight man, y'know? 

I got I got I got kids y'know? They gonna umm, finish this for 

me anyway yknahmsayin so regardless, y'know the legacy lives 

But umm as far as the masses just remember my words 

Straight up