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Artist: Public Enemy
Album:  It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Song:   Rebel Without a Pause

        Yes - the rhythm, the rebel
        Without a pause - I'm lowering my level
        The hard rhymer - where you never been I'm in
        You want stylin' - you know it's time again
        D the enemy -  tellin you to hear it
        They praised the music - this time they play the lyrics
        Some say no to the album, the show
        Bum rush the sound I made a year ago
        I guess you know - you guess I'm just a radical
        Not a sabbatical - yes to make it critical
        The only part your body should be parting to
        Panther power on the hour from the rebel to you

        Radio - suckers never play me
        On the mix - just O.K. me
        Now known and grown when they're clocking my zone it's known
        Snakin' and takin' everything that a brother owns
        Hard - my calling card
        Recorded and orderd - supporter of Chesimard
        Loud and proud kickin' live next poet supreme
        Loop a troop, bazooka, the scheme
        Flavor - a rebel in his own mind
        Supporter of my rhyme
        Designed to scatter a line of suckers who claim I do crime

        Terminator X

        From a rebel it's final on black vinyl
        Soul, rock and roll comin' like a rhino
        Tables turn - suckers burn to learn
        They can't dis-able the power of my label
        Def Jam - tells you who I am
        The enemy's public - they really give a damn
        Strong Island - where I got 'em wild and
        That's the reason they're claimin' that I'm violent
        Never silent - no dope gettin' dumb nope
        Claimin' where we get our rhythm from
        Number one - we hit ya and we give ya some
        No gun - and still never on the run
        You wanna be an S.1 - Griff will tell you when
        And then you'll come - you'll know what time it is
        Impeach the president - pullin' out the ray-gun
        Zap the next one - I could be you're Sho-gun
        Suckers - don't last a minute
        Soft and smooth - I ain't with it
        Hardcore - rawbone like a razor
        I'm like a lazer - I just won't graze ya
        Old enough to raise ya - so this will faze ya
        Get it right boy and maybe I will praise ya
        Playin' the role I got soul too
        Voice my opinion with volume
        Smooth - no what I am
        Rough - cause I'm the man

        No matter what the name - we're all the same
        Pieces in one big chess game
        Yeah - the voice of power
        Is in the house - go take a shower boy
        P.E. a group, a crew - not singular
        We were black Wranglers
        We're rap stranglers
        You can't angle us - I know you're listenin'
        I caught you pissin' in you're pants
        You're scared of us dissin' us
        The crowd is missin' us
        We're on a mission boy

        Terminator X

        Attitude - when I'm on fire
        Juice on the loose - electric wire
        Simple and plain - give me the lane
        I'll throw it down your throat like Barkley
        See the car keys - you'll never get these
        They belong to the 98 posse
        You want some more son - you wanna get some
        Rush the door on a store - pick up the album
        You know the rhythm, the rhyme plus the beat is designed
        So I can enter your mind - Boys
        Bring the noise - my time
        Step aside for the flex - Terminator X