Ah yeah, whatcha say when you see a devil down Ah yeah, whatcha say when you take the devil's crown Ah yeah, stay alive all things will change Ah yeah, Ah yeah
So I go kickin science in ninety-five I be illin, parental discretion is advised Dont call me nigga, MC goes for his Call me God, cause what the black man is Roamin through the forest as the hardest artist Black women you are not a bitch you're a Let it be known, you can on KRS-One a wall cause I'm hard, I represent GOD Wack have only one style gun buck But you say, "Let's buck for revolution" They the fuck up, kid, get with it Down to start a in a minute hear so many Bowe-Bowe-Bowe, you think I'm Riddick While other MC's are talkin bout up with hope with dope have a devil in my infrared scope, WOY That's for my father a boy and, KLAK KLAK KLAK That's for scars on my mother's back, BO That's for calling my a hoe, and for you BUCK BUCK BUCK, cause I don't a motherfuck Remember the whip, remember the chant, remember rope and You black people still thinkin vot-ing Every president we had lied You know I'm kinda glad Nixon
Ah yeah, whatcha say when you see a devil down Ah yeah, that's whatcha say when you take the devil's Ah yeah, stay all things will change around Ah yeah, what? Ah
This is not the first time I to the planet But I come, only a few could understand it I as Isis, my words they tried to ban it I as Moses, they couldn't follow my commandments I came as Solomon, to a people that was I came as Jesus, but they me to a cross I came as Tubman, I put the truth to Sojourner Other times, I had to as Nat Turner They tried to me, lynch me and starve me So I had to come back as Marcus Garvey, Bob They tried to me, I used to be Malcolm X Now I'm on the planet as the one KRS Kickin the metaphysical, spiritual, to like Get wit you, showin you, you are The Black Panther is the black for real In my spiritual form, I turn Bobby Seale On the wheels of steel, my spirit away And into Kwame Ture
Ah yeah, that's say when you see a devil down Ah yeah, that's whatcha say when you take the devil's Ah yeah, stay alive all will change around Ah yeah, Ah yeah
In the streets there is no EQ, no So I grab the air and speak through the The cannot see through as I unload Into another Then I can tell em, because my go through denim And whatever, however, I'm still rockin We used to pick cotton, now we pick up when we shoppin Have you why we buildin in a cypher Yo me kid, government is building in a pyramid The son of God is than the son of man The spirit is, check your bill G, here it is We got no for fancy mathematics Your mental frequency pickin up static you a naked body, attic and it's democratic They press auto, and you kill it with an
Ah yeah, that's whatcha say you see a devil down Ah yeah, that's say when you take the devil's crown Ah yeah, stay all things will change around Ah yeah, Ah yeah