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A Different Kind

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Hip-Hop/Rap

A Different Kind was released on September 18, 2026 by Rakim x Kurupt x Masta Killa as a part of the album DPG WU-TANG, WU-TANG DPG -THE GODBODY LP-

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OVERVIEW

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Rakim

Performer

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

William Michael Griffin Jr.

William Michael Griffin Jr.

Composer, Lyrics

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Rakim

Producer

Lyrics

[Intro]

I'm a different kind

My name carry heavy weight

I'm a different kind

For all it's worth, gettin' mine

All facts, I'm so ahead of my time

Set the record straight

On this great ball of stress that they call the Earth (Yeah)

How many rappers I killed spitting rhymes? (Uh)

[Verse 1]

Hit the restart or this won't end well, closed cyphers (That's right)

Only real artists, real skill, no biters (Uh)

Let your artificial intel, the flow virus

If this was hell, I'm Osiris to ghostwriters (Yeah)

The underground king control the surface again (Uh-huh)

Knowing for sure, spitting styles (Uh), swag-swerving the trends

Leave the mold broke so no one else on Earth can get in

Or close to perfect as him, if I was birthed with a twin (Look)

You can tell the difference

This is my Hannibal-on-an-elephant entrance (Uh-huh)

Like when the seventh angel blow the trumpet (Uh)

Not just to get it jumpin'

But to let you know it's a god in the circumference (That's right)

Twist the planet 'til the world black out, then light the fluff

This a parallel universe, then vice versa (Uh)

Mami spinning, she said a Tina need an Ike Turner (Uh-huh)

Honey coming like money (Uh-huh) to the right earner

When the mic turn up, recitals spread horrifics (That's right)

Like you read in the glyphics, like it's said in the scriptures

This is my Great Flood flow, ask Noah, it's all over (Uh-huh)

The horror like the fall of (Uh) Sodom and Gomorrah (Uh)

A futuristic mind since the sec I was signed

By the end of my career, more than a vet in my prime (That's right)

Been here before, therefore left 'em behind

I'm Tesla in a new Tesla, ahead of my time

[Chorus]

Different designs, I'm a different kind

Skinny ****, but my name carry heavy weight

I'm a different kind

For all it's worth, still gettin' mine

All facts, I'm so ahead of my time

I'm just here to set the record straight

On this great ball of stress that they call the Earth

How many rappers I killed spitting rhymes?

[Verse 2]

Don't ask me where I buried 'em at (Shh)

Buried the body, buried the mic, buried the track (Uh-huh)

A killer taught me to mob, but even better than that

He said, "Ra, soon as you finish the job, bury the gat" (Uh)

I'm up floors from metaphor wars in front of stores (Uh-huh)

They clap for us, full applause (Uh-huh), to the top, rush tours (Uh)

From club brawls to just ball

To graffiti on the corner store wall to Hip-Hop Rushmore

Then they raised me on rock, coke, and a side of kilo

Like I'm Paul, Frank, Meech, Pablo, or Carlito (Uh-huh)

Roll, Jamie eyes closed, but I see, though

Mami say, "Take me to your castle, papito"

'Round mic, it's hard to control my ego (Uh-huh)

Glow shade-free, my show jalapeño (That's right)

Don't play, then pay me, need my quote, my C-notes

That's the do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do

Still incognito with an omnipresence (Uh-huh)

Like I'm everywhere at once, that's my godly essence

I sat alone with Da Vinci's code to decode it

The one they gave Rosetta the stone to say she wrote it

The wordsmith of rap (Uh-huh), title is undescribable (Uh)

Can't explain it, find the right words, Rakim is that

Adjectives intensify verbs, cinematics (Uh-huh)

And this is just the tip of the iceberg, Slim is back

Written by: William Michael Griffin Jr.

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