So, you're a Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes I think very deeply, I very deeply, I think very deeply I think, I think, I think very deeply, I think, I think deeply
Let's begin, what, where, why, or Will all be explained like instructions to a See I'm not insane, in fact, I'm of rational When I be asking you, "Who is dramatical?" This one or that one, the white one or the one Pick the punk, and I'll up to attack one KRS-One is the guy to lead a crew Right up to face and dis you
Everyone saw me on the last album Holding a something far from a lover my brother, S C O T T I just laughed, no one can defeat me This is lecture number two, 'My one, was 'Poetry' you know it's me This is my philosophy, many got to learn I'm not flammable, I don't
So please stop burnin', and learn to earn 'Cause that's what KR collects See, what do you when you rhyme like a soft punk You down the street and get jumped You got to style, and learn to be original And everybody's wanna dis you Like me, we up for the South Bronx And every sucka mc had a
You think we care? I know that are on the tip My from 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 frauds in a second on the mic, I believe that you get loose I haven't come to you I got juice I just produce, create, innovate on a higher be back, but for now just seckle
I'll play the and you play the target You all know my name so I guess I'll start it Or should I say, start this, I am an Of new concepts at their Yo, 'cause I'm a teacher, the is a scholar It ain't about money we all make dollars 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 they all just I'm not white or red or I'm brown the Boogie Down Productions, of course our music be Others say they're bad, but they're
Let me tell you somethin' now hip hop About D-Nice, Melodie, and Scott La get a pen, a pencil, a marker Mainly what I write is for the average New Some mc's be and talkin' Tryin' to how black people are walkin' But I don't this way to portray Or reinforce stereotypes of
all my brothas eat chicken and watermelon Talk broken English and sellin' See I'm tellin', and teaching facts The way some act in rap is kind of And it lacks creativity and But they care 'cause the company is sellin' it my philosophy, on the industry Don't bother me, or even wish that we'd
Soften, dilute, or commercialize all the 'Cause it's about time one of y'all it And hear it from the intelligent brown man A vegetarian, no or ham Or chicken or or hamburger to me that's suicide self-murder Let us get to what we call hip hop And what it meant to DJ La Rock
How many mc's must get Before somebody says, don't with This is one style, out of many a piggy bank, this is one penny My brother's name is Kenny, that's, Kenny My other brother I.C.U. is much Boogie 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 it's all about reality teach and do the world good Kings rule and most are never understood If you were to or govern a certain industry All inside this room right now would be in No one would get along nor sing a 'Cause everyone'd be singing for the king, am I
So yo, what's up, me again La Rock, KRS, BDP again Many had the nerve To think that we would end the We're criminal minded, an album is only ten Funky, funky, funky, funky, hit records No more than four minutes and seconds
The competition checks and checks and keeps They the album, take it home, and start sweatin' well it's simple, to them it's kind of vital To take KRS-One's To them I'm like an idol, some type of In everybody's rhyme they wanna me? Or rather mention us, me or Scott La But they can get get robbed, get dropped
I play around nor do I f around 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 unrational A lot of mc's like to use the word Fresh for '88, you