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 and study But I'm not in it for the money, but to me they so funny You test the teacher, the teacher won't reach intact Through the speaker weaker, now sit your ass in the back My you hear it, you fear it, you can't get near it 'Cause the eat Eric and Eric your rhymes is wack Like that, that, right
Check, check it out, check it this Just skills, you know you gots to build skills You know you gots to build just skills, uh on get down Just skills, you know we got to build skills, come on get down
Yeah, uh come on, I got rip track, flip 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 I reach Have a seat in the lecture can protect you is the texture of the mic wreckin' rock in your sector Better than remember I am no beginner I like to shout out Skinner
Just skills, you know we gots to build just 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 private and limousine The fruit we eatin' as we tangerine to nectarine See everybody livin' in the same We the telephone, and yes, we need the fax machine You listen to the sound, well I think you know me Now, let me you with my conscious 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 love it when bad See if you wack rap you ought be out the back See emcees on the microphone forgettin' that they See hear them kick the lyrics are holdin' people back
But when you hear the teacher, KRS will find the You bound to see the light, and you don't want return So listen closely to the secret scientist I'm this one out to all my inner city kids Now you to be apostle what you have inside your head Can make you more reliable, it can make you dead
Now listen very closely to the way I say rhyme It's the thing the brain, and the thing called the mind But I'm outta
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, never had a Can I tell them that I really had a gun? No, you can't now you 'bouts to get done Can I tell that 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 ain't gettin' money that Word to my brother Kenny, jealous one The rich are few, while the poor, But you got cuffs and cars and stuff You eatin' well, but 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, emcees 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 light you And to your surprise you get huffed up with two steak knives You're terrified, they take your Benz, and makes 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 that 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 to get done Can I tell them I really never had a gun Never had a gun, never had a