Put Your Hands Together

Eric B. & Rakim

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Eric B. & Rakim

Eric B. & Rakim were a hip-hop duo composed of DJ Eric Barrier (born November 8, 1965) and MC Rakim (born William Michael Griffin Jr. on January 28, 1968). more »


Year:
1988
5:15
321 
#2

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Clap your hands
Clap your hands
Clap your hands

Clap your hands
Clap your hands
Clap your hands

Put your hands together, clap your hands
This is for thousands of people who came 
A show from road to road you're entertained 
I don't even have to say my name 
Cause when the place is ripped in half  I'm to blame 
Masses of posses packed up schemin 
Ladies lovely and keep on screamin 
Go Rakim, go Rakim, go 
It won't be long then it's on with the show 
I'm late, so hit the brakes and park the Benzito 
Double oh seven, incognito 
Sneak in the back door, lookin for the stage 
When I get on you react in a rage 
People from side to side and front to back 
won't dance, if the MC's wack 
The crowd go psycho even if I don't move 
Some like the groove cause I'm so smooth 
Then somethin happens, feet start tappin 
You can't hold back when Rakim's rappin 
The man you've been waitin for, rougher than ever 
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together 

Clap your hands
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Clap your hands
Clap your hands

Clap your hands
Clap your hands
Clap your hands
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Clap your hands 

I create em, take em, shake em, then make em clap to this 
Most of you rappers, can't even rap to this 
I made it faster, you tried to master 
Syncopated styles, words flowin after 
Measures of metaphor definitions of more than one 
Take it both ways, I'll be here when you're done 
Remember as the rhyme goes on it's rougher 
Soon as I stop, you had enough of 
Followin' footsteps, you better turn back soon 
Sucker MC's suck rhymes like vacuums 
The style remains the same, the words is changed 
Bitten, rewritten, recited and rearranged 
Sing along if your tongue is strong, it gets sore 
Sing when I'm gone and it'll break your jaw 
Wisdom flows so swift, I'm Asiatic 
Is it a gift, or automatic 
Static, I don't cling 
I got a tip of my own and I don't sing 
Don't understand, here's an example 
And why MC's and DJ's sample 
'Cause we don't have a band, it's just my voice and his hands 
That's what hip-hop was, it still stands 
The records we use are from mom's and pop's collection 
Find a break from a dope selection 
And go to the store, then buy one more 
So my DJ can mix cause that's what his hands are for 
Years later hip-hop got contracts 
The chance to put actual facts on wax 
A mind's the coach, the physical form's the team 
The top's the destination, I'm the cream 
And still I rise with somethin pumpin and somethin clever 
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together 

Clap your hands 
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Clap your hands
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Clap your hands, clap em, clap em 

Now who's the man with the masterplan? 
With stacks of verbal attacks so clap your hands 
Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints 
Students influenced are now a nuisance 
You couldn't fight it, you had to clap to this 
You got excited, you almost snapped your wrist 
The rhymes was written for the crowd's enjoyment 
When I'm with this you can't toy with 
The def jam juicer rough rhyme producer 
Loads of lyrics get you loose, then looser 
The man so smooth and world so rough 
Eric is throwin and sewin rippin restitchin the cuts 
Microphone your majesty, no one's bad as me 
Seems the tragedy, Rakim had to be 
Thinkin of some def view of a video 
Visions are vicious, and I'll let the city know 
Whoever's frontin they know, nothin to say though 
so lay low, musical forms are kickin' like Kato 
Don't get near it, hard as you ever hear it 
I know it's fearified, but don't fear it 
And try to predict which rhyme you can kick 
You're quick to pick your best, for the mic is lit 
Instead of goin' with the flow like you're supposed to go 
And enjoy the show and yo, put your hands together 

Clap your hands
Clap your hands
Clap your hands

Clap your hands
Clap your hands
Clap your hands

Clap your hands, put your hands together 

Clap your hands

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Written by: ERIC BARRIER, WILLIAM GRIFFIN

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