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