Eric B. & Rakim Step Back lyrics

See if you can step to this

Back to the lab

Now try to do this step
(Back to the lab)
And make sure the pace is kept
And this ain't as smooth as I'ma get

Nice and easy but hard to catch on to
Move with melodies, rhymes to respond to
The mic's in front of me, so you know it's gonna be
Rough and rugged, plus I'm smooth as I wanna be

I'm somethin' like sippin' on Dom Perignon
So absorb the song, 'til the rhyme's all gone
My beats and speech original, you can't find these
Eighty-nine is mine, so is the nineties

Tellin' you what you need to know and more
You're unsure? On tour, I explore
From street to street, to speak, from beat after beat
My cypher's complete, when I build with people I meet

So here's the info straight from the source in fact
Paid the cost to be the boss, step back
Give me room to exercise the mind
Three-hundred and sixty degrees'll be fine

The weight of the world is what we hold
That's a six, followed by twenty-one zeros
Six sextillion tons is a lot of weight
My truth is the strength and my thought won't break

What it take, concentration, to rebuild our
Nation but we got to have mind power
And we can make it work, because I know we can
And if somethin' go wrong, make another plan

It's up to us, so strive and be wise and
When we reach the top, don't stop risin'
And I'll keep comin' up with more of
The most requested songs that you all love

Reach out and touch the mic, take control
Still gettin' paid and I still got soul
And the only thing I ever wanted you to follow was poetry
Mine takes X-rays, so listen closely


From the darkness came the light, clear out of a dark night
Now I'm here to spark the mic
Send out truth, for other groups and substitutes
With run-on rhymes and weak dubs and loops

They'd rather hear the arsonist, they insist
No need to reminisce, see if you can step to this

Back to the lab, step back
Back to the lab
Back to the lab, without a mic to grab
So just step, back to the lab
Back to the lab, without a mic

Just step, the rhymes create energy
Charged up, by the cut, and it's sendin' me
For a trip through the mind so I can locate
A laid back rap at a slow rate

It ain't hard at all, 'cause I invented it
As the days go on, you hear them with it
Brother bustin' braincells, thinkin' of a rap
With the same old style, we had enough of that

We all need somethin' to step to
And don't forget to, 'cause I won't let you
Dance without hopin' that this come on next
And if it go off, the DJ can't flex

'Cause here's the tempo, I'ma regulate the pace
Here's the step, go find some space
And what we gonna do is in unison, kick
Shake your head, you're influenced with music

By now you're intoxicated, 'cause I prove I made it
The pep your step so soon you get rejuvenated
From side to side, you pause and clap
But if you came to rap
(Step back)

Back to the lab, without a mic to grab
Back to the lab, without a mic to grab
Back to the lab