Run for Cover
1990 · MCA 6416 · New York City, New York
- Artist
- Eric B. & Rakim
- Title
- Run for Cover
- Release
- Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em
- Year
- 1990
- Label
- MCA # 6416
- Format
- Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- New York City, New York, USA
- Genre
- Hip Hop · East Coast Hip Hop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Rap / Hip Hop Songs
East Coast Hip Hop duo, formed in 1986 in New York, USA, and disbanded in 1992. The song "Run for Cover" (MCA Records # 6416) is another example of a hip hop group using Vietnam as a metaphor for conflict and violence: "my brother, run for cover because I'm armed, my brain contains a bomb, as if I escaped from Vietnam".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Here I go again, ready to flow again / Better hope my mic don't blow again / Warned by alarms when the mic gets warm / Crowd'll get critical, can't keep calm / Jet for the exit, why hang around? / Words that I found make the mic melt down / If you stay, better cooperate, cuz I amputate / And whoever don't break, I'mma suffocate / Leave em with asthma, you better pass the Mic to the massacre master that has the power to build and destroy at the same time / So track the wack and the right and exact will shine / Make the beat overheat, but I won't stop / So evacuate the spot when the mic's hot / Switch it from one hand to another / And that's a hint, my brother, run for cover / Because I'm armed, my brain contains a bomb / As if I escaped from Vietnam / Some people label me lethal / Lyrics I made then put beats to / Format, collapse your lungs, twist your tongues
About the artist
East Coast Hip Hop duo, formed in 1986 in New York, USA, and disbanded in 1992.