It's meant to be when I rock so eloquently Put the beat on and let me another wack 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 test the teacher, the teacher won't reach intact Through the speaker you're weaker, now sit your ass in the My lyrical you hear it, you fear it, you get near it 'Cause the spirit eat and Eric your rhymes is wack that, that, right back
Check, it out, check it like this Just skills, you you gots to build just skills You know you gots to build 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, most of what I'm be weak So I speak through beats and the as I teach I impeach, through speech, each 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 shout out Eric
Just skills, you know we 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 in a world of private jets and limousine The fruit we eatin' as we prepare to nectarine See everybody livin' in the same We need the telephone, and yes, we the fax machine You listen to the sound, well I you know it's 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 wack rap you be steppin' out the back See emcees on the microphone forgettin' they black See hear them kick the lyrics are holdin' people back
But when you the teacher, KRS will find the track You to see the light, and you don't want return back So listen closely to the secret scientist I'm sending 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 feel
Now very closely to the way I say this rhyme It's the thing called the brain, and the called the mind But I'm outta
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 'cause now you 'bouts to get done Can I tell that I really never had a gun Never had a gun, never had a
On the block you yap a whole lot About the clothes that you got, yo, or the gold you got Everybody sees all the in your Benz, yo, it's 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 gold cuffs and and stuff You well, but still in the ghetto you dwell
You know it's hot, so you make it known your glock To any perpetrator tryin' to up your spot You grab the and talk a good ramble You the outlaw, criminal, vandal Burnin' like a candle, but you frontin' You ain't got nothin', with your you gamble One day you up snake eyes Talkin' all that junk you don't take dives, you take lives
on the block tries, 'cause you claim you got powerful ties So at the red you arrive And to your surprise you get huffed up with just two steak You're terrified, take your Benz, and what makes things worse You ain't got gun the
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