It's meant to be when I rock so eloquently Put the beat on and let me kill another wack Can't trust them, never test me, I practice and But I'm not in it for the money, but to me they look so You can't test the teacher, the won't reach intact the speaker you're weaker, now sit your ass in the back My you hear it, you fear it, you can't get near it 'Cause the spirit eat Eric and Eric your is wack that, that, right back
Check, check it out, check it this skills, you know you gots to build just skills You know you to build just skills, uh come on get down Just skills, you know we got to build skills, come on get down
Yeah, uh come on, I got that rip track, flip that, 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 leech I reach Have a seat in the lecture can protect you Hard is the texture of the mic wreckin' in your sector Better than ever I am no beginner I like to out Eric Skinner
Just skills, you know we to build just skills A come on a get Just skills, you know we gots to build skills A on a get down
Yo, we livin' in a world of jets and limousine The fruit we eatin' as we prepare to nectarine See everybody livin' in the same We need the telephone, and yes, we need the fax You to the sound, well I think you know it's me Now, let me educate you with my conscious
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 when bad See if you wack rap you ought be out the back See on the microphone forgettin' that they black See hear them kick the 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 scientist I'm this one out to all my inner city kids Now you supposed to be apostle you have inside your head Can make you more reliable, it can make you feel
Now listen closely to the way I say this rhyme It's the thing called the brain, and the thing 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 that I really 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?
On the block you yap a whole lot About the that you got, yo, or the gold that you got Everybody all the friends in your Benz, yo, it's fat But they gettin' money like that Word to my Kenny, jealous one envy The rich are few, the poor, many But you got gold and cars and stuff You well, but still in the ghetto you dwell
You know hot, so you make it known about your glock To any tryin' to blow up your spot You grab the microphone and a good ramble You the hardcore outlaw, criminal, Burnin' like a candle, but you frontin' You ain't got nothin', with life you gamble One day you gamble up eyes Talkin' all that about you don't take dives, you take lives
Nobody on the block tries, 'cause you claim you got ties So at the red light you And to your surprise you get huffed up with just two knives You're terrified, they take your Benz, and makes things worse You ain't got gun the
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