So, you're a Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes I think very deeply, I think very deeply, I think very I think, I think, I think very deeply, I think, I very deeply
Let's begin, what, where, why, or all be explained like instructions to a game See I'm not insane, in fact, I'm kind of When I be you, "Who is more dramatical?" one or that one, the white one or the black one Pick the punk, and jump up to attack one KRS-One is just the guy to a crew Right up to face and dis you
Everyone saw me on the album cover Holding a pistol something far from a my brother, S C O T T I just laughed, no one can defeat me This is lecture two, 'My Philosophy' Number one, was 'Poetry' you know me This is my philosophy, artists got to learn I'm not flammable, I don't
So stop burnin', and learn to earn respect that's just what KR collects See, what do you expect when you rhyme like a punk You down the street and get jumped You got to have style, and learn to be And gonna wanna dis you me, we stood up for the South Bronx And sucka mc had a response
You think we care? I that they are on the tip My posse the Bronx is thick and we're real live, we walk correctly A lot of suckas would like to me but they can't like a champ, I have got a record of knocking out The in a second on the mic, I believe that you should get loose I haven't to tell you I got juice I produce, create, innovate on a higher level I'll be back, but for now just
I'll the nine and you play the target You all know my name so I guess just start it Or should I say, start this, I am an Of new at their hardest Yo, 'cause I'm a teacher, the is a scholar It ain't about money 'cause we all make That's why I with my head up I hear wack rhymes I get fed up
Rap is like a set-up, a lot of A lot of with colorful names I'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm Huh, but all just wick-wick-wack I'm not or red or black I'm brown from the Down Productions, of our music be thumpin' Others say they're bad, but buggin'
Let me you somethin' now about hip hop About D-Nice, Melodie, and La Rock get a pen, a pencil, a marker Mainly I write is for the average New Yorker Some mc's be talkin' and Tryin' to how black people are walkin' But I don't walk this way to Or reinforce stereotypes of
all my brothas eat chicken and watermelon Talk broken English and drug See I'm tellin', and teaching real The way act in rap is kind of wack And it lacks and intelligence But don't care 'cause the company is sellin' it It's my philosophy, on the Don't bother dissin' me, or wish that we'd
Soften, dilute, or commercialize all the 'Cause it's about time one of y'all it And hear it first-hand the intelligent brown man A vegetarian, no or ham Or chicken or Turkey or to me that's suicide self-murder Let us get to what we call hip hop And it meant to DJ Scott La Rock
How many mc's must get somebody says, don't with Kris This is one style, out of many Like a bank, this is one penny My brother's name is Kenny, that's, Parker My other brother I.C.U. is much Down Productions is made up of teachers The lecture is from the mic into the speaker
Who gets weaker? The king or the It's not about a salary it's all reality Teachers teach and do the good Kings just rule and most are understood If you were to rule or govern a industry All inside this room now would be in misery No one would get nor sing a song 'Cause be singing for the king, am I wrong?
So yo, what's up, it's me Scott La Rock, KRS, BDP Many people had the To think that we would end the We're criminal minded, an album which is ten Funky, funky, funky, funky, hit records No more than four and some seconds
The competition checks and checks and checkin' They the album, take it home, and start sweatin' Why? well it's simple, to it's kind of vital To take KRS-One's To them I'm like an idol, some of entity In everybody's rhyme they wanna me? Or rather mention us, me or Scott La But they can get get robbed, get dropped
I don't play around nor do I f And you can tell by the that are left around When some clown jumps up to get down Broken down to his very last See how it sounds? A little A lot of mc's like to use the word Fresh for '88, you