It's meant to be evidently when I so eloquently Put the beat on and let me another 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 speaker you're weaker, now sit ass in the back My you hear it, you fear it, you can't get near it 'Cause the spirit eat Eric and your rhymes is wack Like that, that, right
Check, it out, check it like this Just skills, you you gots to build just skills You you gots to build just skills, uh come on get down skills, you know we got to build just skills, come on get down
Yeah, uh come on, I got rip track, flip that, underground rap When I kick back, of what I'm hearin' be weak So I speak through and the streets as I teach I impeach, through speech, each lyric leech I Have a seat in the nothin' can protect you Hard is the of the mic wreckin' rock in your sector Better than ever remember I am no I like to out Eric Skinner
Just skills, you know we gots to build skills A on a get down skills, you know we gots to build just skills A come on a get
Yo, we in a world of private jets and limousine The fruit we eatin' as we prepare tangerine to See everybody in the same routine We need the telephone, and yes, we the fax machine You listen to the sound, well I think you know me Now, let me educate you with my 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 it when it's bad See if you rap you ought be steppin' out the back See emcees on the forgettin' that they black See hear them kick the that are holdin' people back
But when you the teacher, KRS will find the track You bound to see the light, and you don't want return 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 you more reliable, it can make you feel dead
Now listen very to the way I say this rhyme the thing 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 'cause now you 'bouts to get done Can I tell them I really never had a gun Never had a gun, had a gun? 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 never had a gun Never had a gun, had a gun?
On the block you yap a whole lot About the clothes that you got, yo, or the gold you got Everybody sees all the friends in your Benz, yo, fat But they ain't gettin' like that Word to my brother Kenny, jealous one The rich are few, the poor, many But you got gold and cars and stuff You eatin' well, but still in the ghetto you
You know hot, so you make it known about your glock To any perpetrator tryin' to blow up your You grab the microphone and a good ramble You the outlaw, criminal, vandal Burnin' like a candle, but you frontin' You ain't got nothin', with your you gamble One day you gamble up eyes Talkin' all that junk about you don't take dives, you lives
Nobody on the tries, 'cause you claim you got powerful ties So at the red you arrive And to your surprise you get huffed up with two steak knives You're terrified, they take your Benz, and what things worse You ain't got gun the
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