It's meant to be evidently when I 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 look so You can't test the teacher, the teacher reach intact Through the speaker you're weaker, now sit your ass in the My lyrical you it, you fear it, you can't get near it 'Cause the spirit eat Eric and Eric your rhymes is that, that, right back
Check, check it out, check it this Just skills, you know you to build just skills You know you gots to build just skills, uh 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, flip that, rap When I kick back, most of what I'm be weak So I speak through beats and the streets as I I impeach, through speech, lyric leech I reach Have a seat in the lecture nothin' can you is the texture of the mic wreckin' rock in your sector Better than remember I am no beginner I like to out Eric Skinner
Just skills, you know we gots to just skills A on a get down Just skills, you know we gots to build skills A come on a get
Yo, we livin' in a world of private and limousine The fruit we eatin' as we prepare to nectarine See everybody in the same routine We need the telephone, and yes, we the fax machine You listen to the sound, I think you know it's me Now, let me educate you my conscious poetry
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 love it when bad See if you wack rap you ought be steppin' out the See emcees on the microphone forgettin' that black See hear them kick the lyrics that are holdin' back
But when you hear the teacher, KRS will find the You to see the light, and you don't want return back So listen very closely to the secret I'm sending this one out to all my city kids Now you to be apostle what you have inside your head Can you more reliable, it can make you feel dead
Now listen closely to the way I say this rhyme It's the thing the brain, and the thing called the mind But I'm time
Can I tell that I really never had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you to get done Can I them that I really never had a gun Never had a gun, had a gun? Can I tell them that I really never had a 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?
On the you just 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, one envy The rich are few, 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 known your glock To any perpetrator to blow up your spot You grab the microphone and talk a good You the hardcore outlaw, criminal, Burnin' emcees a candle, but you frontin' You ain't got nothin', with your life you One day you gamble up eyes Talkin' all that junk about you don't take dives, you take
Nobody on the block tries, 'cause you claim you got powerful So at the red light you And to surprise you get huffed up with just two steak knives You're terrified, they take your Benz, and what things worse You got gun the first
Can I tell them that I really 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 'cause now you to get done Can I tell them that I never had a gun had a gun, never had a gun?