It's meant to be evidently when I rock so Put the beat on and let me kill another emcee Can't trust them, never test me, I 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 won't reach 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, check it out, check it this Just skills, you know you gots to build skills You know you gots to just skills, uh come on get down Just skills, you know we got to just skills, come on get down
Yeah, uh on, I got that rip track, flip that, underground rap When I kick back, of what I'm hearin' be weak So I through beats and the streets as I teach I impeach, through speech, lyric leech I reach Have a in the lecture nothin' can protect you Hard is the texture of the mic wreckin' in your sector Better than ever I am no beginner I like to shout out Skinner
skills, you know we gots to build just skills A on a get down Just skills, you know we to build just skills A come on a get
Yo, we livin' in a world of private and limousine The we eatin' as we prepare tangerine to nectarine See livin' in the same routine We need the telephone, and yes, we the fax machine You listen to the sound, well I think you it's 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 want no rap Me love, me love, me love, me love, me love it it's bad See if you wack rap you ought be out the back See on the microphone 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 return back So listen very closely to the secret I'm sending this one out to all my inner kids Now you supposed to be apostle what you have inside your Can make you reliable, it can make you feel dead
Now listen very to the way I say this rhyme It's the called the brain, and the thing called the mind But I'm time
Can I tell them that I never 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? Can I tell them I really 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
On the block you just yap a lot the clothes 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 that Word to my brother Kenny, one envy The rich are few, the poor, many But you got gold and cars and stuff You well, but still in the ghetto you dwell
You know it's hot, so you make it about your glock To any tryin' to blow up your spot You grab the and talk a good ramble You the outlaw, criminal, vandal Burnin' emcees a candle, but you frontin' You got nothin', with your life you gamble One day you gamble up snake 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 surprise you get huffed up with just two steak knives You're terrified, they take your Benz, and what makes things You ain't got gun the
Can I them that 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, never had a 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?