Untouchables

This is poetry in motion

Try to catch on, stay close to the host

And MCs try to make the road rough, but I'm coasting

Ladies hear the rhymes, rub 'em on like lotion

Hit the spot soothing, can't stop moving

Go ahead, bust a sweat, and you can bet I'm still cooling

When I detain, it's a brainstorm

Never the same form, every brain I rained on is warm

Taking a trip through memory lane to melody

See if you could tell if these thoughts the fella sees

Could do you justice, but you can't touch this

Some kid just tried to bust this, but he just missed

I'm universal and much more merciful

So versatile with the style it's reversible

I get away even if I say a curse or two

First, let me bust another verse for you

Your arms too short to box with Ra' so quit

You don't want no kind of conflict

Or you'll get stripped as the rhyme is ripped

Pick up the pieces, now ain't that peace? Yeah, I'm hip

Everything I said flows since my intro

I plant a thought, extend and then grow

Holding my pen tightly, it might be

Controversy at first when I write the

Chords of research, don't just take it for granted

When I'm gone, my mind remains a planet

If I keep building and teach the children

So when they read in between the lines, it's filled in

I break to meditate, not a peep, concentrate

Till I'm deep awake, but not asleep

At the same time rising and advertising

What is true, keep advising you to stay wise

And I'm untouchable

Coming over the bridge, take a peek at the skyline

'Cause that's how I shine, not only when I rhyme

My culture's making me stronger mentally

Physically, I'm powerful, poetry, I'll invent to be

Labeled as art, placed in a museum

Style'll make scenery, now you see 'em

Exhibit a knowledge that's packed and filled with

Nothing illiterate, it's facts I build with

My mind's untouchable, which means intangible

Contents never dense, it's understandable

I study life so I can live it the right way

No time to hear what another brother might say

Why sell a capsule of crack? I don't have to

I rhyme and sign million dollar contracts to

Put message on records that's braced with hard bass

Smuggling microphones, this ain't Scarface

Whoever talked that talk, I wanna hawk

And don't try to escape from New York

Cross a 110th Street looking for a problem

It's hell up in Harlem, watch Ra' solve 'em

I hear the music clear as I get near

The 125th Street Apollo Theater

Take a step back when I rap and step up to you

I'm untouchable

Put on my thinking cap, pump the track

Test your reflex, relax, but in contact

You fold and lose control, so hold your partner closer

You're supposed to keep your composure

But you hear the drumset go, then it gets so hype

It's like nitro, opponents get petrol

Remember the trademark left by the R

That's never soft or smooth, it's coming off the hardest

In effect, you could detect the imposter

Taking my props, Rakim is still proper

I'm a prophet, you can't stop it when I drop it

Everything I say coincide with the topic

Thoughts bounced around till my skull is fractured

Inside my brain, it's all manufactured

As we go deeper, it's hard to find

Don't even think about it, 'cause you can't read my mind

It's clear, so therefore, you need a ear or inclined

In the mind with some kind of idea for

The style I'm advertising what is true

Keep advising you to stay wise and the mind

Is untouchable