From the very first beat it grabs you and holds you through the entire track.
The song is about what Rakim was feeling and going through right at the very beginning of his artistic awakening. At the time Hip Hop was viewed as pseudo-music, and his musically-adept family shunned the art form. So, he was told he couldn't, shouldn't and wouldn't be what he has indeed become: the Greatest Hip Hop Artist of All Time.
But overall it bears testimony to the undeniable force, desire, urge, etc. that possesses an artist to create art: "By any means necessary, this is what has to be done, make way 'cause here I come."
From the very first beat it grabs you and holds you through the entire track.
The song is about what Rakim was feeling and going through right at the very beginning of his artistic awakening. At the time Hip Hop was viewed as pseudo-music, and his musically-adept family shunned the art form. So, he was told he couldn't, shouldn't and wouldn't be what he has indeed become: the Greatest Hip Hop Artist of All Time.
But overall it bears testimony to the undeniable force, desire, urge, etc. that possesses an artist to create art: "By any means necessary, this is what has to be done, make way 'cause here I come."