It's meant to be evidently I rock so eloquently Put the beat on and let me kill another emcee Can't trust them, test me, I practice and study But I'm not in it for the money, but to me they so funny You can't test the teacher, the teacher won't intact Through the speaker you're weaker, now sit ass in the back My lyrical you hear it, you it, you can't get near it 'Cause the spirit eat Eric and Eric your rhymes is Like that, that, right
Check, check it out, check it like skills, you know you gots to build just skills You know you gots to build just skills, uh come on get Just skills, you know we got to build skills, come on get down
Yeah, uh on, I got that rip track, flip that, underground rap I kick back, most of what I'm hearin' be weak So I through beats and the streets as I teach I impeach, through speech, each lyric I reach Have a in the lecture nothin' can protect you Hard is the texture of the mic rock in your sector Better than ever I am no beginner I like to shout out Skinner
Just skills, you know we gots to just skills A on a get down skills, you know we gots to build just skills A come on a get
Yo, we livin' in a world of private and limousine The fruit we as we prepare tangerine to nectarine See everybody in the same routine We the telephone, and yes, we need the fax machine You to the sound, well I think you know it's me Now, let me you with my conscious poetry
Me want, me want, me want, me want, me want no rap Me want, me want, me want, me want, me no wack rap Me love, me love, me love, me love, me love it it's bad See if you wack rap you be steppin' out the back See emcees on the forgettin' that they black See hear them kick the lyrics that are people back
But when you hear the teacher, KRS find the track You bound to see the light, and you don't want back So listen very closely to the scientist I'm sending one out to all my inner city kids Now you supposed to be what you have inside your head Can make you more reliable, it can you feel dead
Now listen very closely to the way I say this It's the called the brain, and the thing called the mind But I'm outta
Can I tell them that I really had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you 'bouts to get Can I tell them I really never had a gun Never had a gun, had a gun? Can I tell them I really never had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you 'bouts to get Can I tell that I really never had a gun Never had a gun, never had a
On the block you just yap a lot About the that you got, yo, or the gold that you got sees all the friends in your Benz, yo, it's fat But they ain't gettin' money like Word to my Kenny, jealous one envy The rich are few, the poor, many But you got cuffs and cars and stuff You well, but still in the ghetto you dwell
You it's hot, so you make it known about your glock To any perpetrator tryin' to up your spot You grab the microphone and a good ramble You the hardcore outlaw, criminal, Burnin' like a candle, but you frontin' You got nothin', with your life you gamble One day you gamble up snake Talkin' all junk about you don't take dives, you take lives
Nobody on the block tries, 'cause you claim you got powerful So at the red you arrive And to your surprise you get huffed up with just two steak You're terrified, take your Benz, and what makes things worse You ain't got gun the
Can I tell them that I really never had a No, you can't now you 'bouts to get done Can I tell that I really never had a gun Never had a gun, had a gun? Can I tell them I really never had a gun? No, you can't now you 'bouts to get done Can I tell them I really never had a gun had a gun, never had a gun?