It's meant to be evidently I rock so eloquently Put the beat on and let me kill another emcee Can't them, never test me, I practice and study But I'm not in it for the money, but to me they so funny You can't test the teacher, the teacher reach intact Through the speaker you're weaker, now sit ass in the back My lyrical you hear it, you fear it, you get near it 'Cause the spirit eat Eric and Eric your is wack Like that, that, right
Check, check it out, it like this Just skills, you know you gots to just skills You know you gots to build 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 I kick back, most of what I'm hearin' be weak So I speak beats and the streets as I teach I impeach, through speech, each lyric I reach Have a seat in the nothin' can protect you Hard is the texture of the mic rock in your sector Better than ever I am no beginner I like to shout out Skinner
Just skills, you we gots to build just skills A on a get down Just skills, you know we gots to build just A come on a get
Yo, we livin' in a of private jets and limousine The fruit we as we prepare tangerine to nectarine See everybody livin' in the same We need the telephone, and yes, we need the fax You listen to the sound, well I you know it's me Now, let me educate you with my 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 forgettin' that they black See hear them kick the lyrics that are holdin' back
But when you hear the teacher, KRS will the track You bound to see the light, and you don't want return So listen closely to the secret scientist I'm sending one out to all my inner city kids Now you supposed to be apostle what you inside your head Can make you reliable, it can make you feel dead
Now listen very closely to the way I say this It's the thing the brain, and the thing called the mind But I'm time
Can I tell them I really never had a gun? No, you can't 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 I really never had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you to get done 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 that you got, yo, or the gold that you got Everybody sees all the friends in your Benz, yo, fat But they ain't gettin' money like Word to my Kenny, jealous one envy The rich are few, the poor, many But you got gold cuffs and 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 up your spot You grab the and talk a good ramble You the hardcore outlaw, criminal, Burnin' emcees like a candle, but you You got nothin', with your life you gamble One day you up snake eyes Talkin' all that junk about you don't take dives, you lives
Nobody on the block tries, you claim you got powerful 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 what makes worse You got gun the first
Can I tell that I really never 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? Can I tell them I really never 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?