| «So respect the architect»
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| «So respect the architect, as I begin to build»
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| I’m mystical, don’t be deceived by the visual
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| Visible preference is pure, patent it back to metaphors
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| Greetin em Illa-del-style wild
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| Analyze my memoirs, runnin on 8/4, poetic, me-ter
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| Soarin way beyond
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| Iambic pentameter, or juvenile flam
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| Unsyncopated soul piercin earlobes and egos
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| My vocals read these thoughts — am I hardcore?
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| To the grain
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| Lame game plain Jane MC’s can’t approach these
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| I shake chumps like fleas, I hold the keys
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| To drive you, guide you, provide you
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| With the real joints, ahem I clear my throat of phlegm
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| The architect, selecting the blueprints
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| To rid the game of nuisance
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| Sucker reducin with the fusion
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| Rhymes solid like cement in my musical solution
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| Stackin concrete flows, look out below
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| «So respect the architect»
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| «So respect the architect… as I begin to build»
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| Floor to ceiling, constantly building
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| With power to construct, towers of rap CREAM kid, what?
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| Dreamin you’re lyrical physical mystical?
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| Your concept’s mediocre plus your way too typical withcha
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| Corny delivery and crazy wack voice
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| Mad corny image, that’s why I give you jitters
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| It figures, I’d have to dust you off the scene
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| Like a wiseguy, with my New York lean
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| Lines that I supply fortify the nuclei of mindstate
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| From state to state, universal, be the orals that I create
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| Top notch and on lock like Sentry, opponents could never tempt me Samplin my style like an Akai S-950 and still can’t get with me While I spread this verbal plague like bubonic
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| Conductin phonics like the Philharmonics
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| I make in measured melody, kids praise me like the crucifix
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| So place Bahamad', amongst your top ten of emcees
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| «So respect the architect»
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| «So respect the architect… as I begin to build»
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| Yeah, neverending, knahmsayin? | 
| Always buildin
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| My homegirl Bahamadia in the hidouse, yeah yeah
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| And of course, my man the legend
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| Ramsey Lewis
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| So respect the architect, knahmsayin? | 
| One love |