It's meant to be evidently when I so eloquently Put the beat on and let me kill another emcee trust them, never test me, I practice and study But I'm not in it for the money, but to me look so funny You can't test the teacher, the teacher reach intact Through the you're weaker, now sit your ass in the back My lyrical you hear it, you fear it, you get near it 'Cause the spirit eat Eric and Eric rhymes is wack Like that, that, right
Check, check it out, it like this Just skills, you know you gots to build just You know you gots to build just skills, uh on get down Just skills, you know we got to 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 to shout out Eric Skinner
Just skills, you know we to build just skills A on a get down Just skills, you we gots to build just skills A on a get down
Yo, we livin' in a world of jets and limousine The fruit we as we prepare tangerine to nectarine 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 conscious
Me want, me want, me want, me want, me no wack rap Me want, me want, me want, me want, me want no 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 microphone forgettin' that they See them kick the lyrics that are holdin' people back
But when you hear the teacher, KRS will find the You bound to see the light, and you don't return back So very closely to the secret scientist I'm this one out to all my inner city kids Now you supposed to be apostle what you inside your head Can make you more reliable, it can make you dead
Now very closely to the way I say this rhyme It's the thing the brain, and the thing called the mind But I'm outta
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 Never had a gun, had a gun? Can I tell them that I 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 you just yap a whole lot About the clothes you got, yo, or the gold that you got Everybody sees all the friends in your Benz, yo, fat But ain't gettin' money like that Word to my Kenny, jealous one envy The are few, while the poor, many But you got cuffs and cars and stuff You eatin' well, but still in the you dwell
You know it's hot, so you make it about your glock To any perpetrator tryin' to blow up spot You grab the microphone and talk a ramble You the outlaw, criminal, vandal Burnin' emcees a candle, but you frontin' You ain't got nothin', with your life you One day you up snake eyes all that junk about you don't take dives, you take lives
Nobody on the block tries, 'cause you claim you got ties So at the red you arrive And to your surprise you get huffed up with just two knives You're terrified, 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 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 had a gun, never had a gun?