So, you're a Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes I think very deeply, I think deeply, I think very deeply I think, I think, I very deeply, I think, I think very deeply
begin, what, where, why, or when Will all be explained like instructions to a See I'm not insane, in fact, I'm of rational I be asking you, "Who is more dramatical?" This one or that one, the one or the black one Pick the punk, and I'll up to attack one KRS-One is just the guy to lead a Right up to face and dis you
saw me on the last album cover Holding a pistol something far from a my brother, S C O T T I just laughed, 'cause no one can me This is lecture two, 'My Philosophy' Number one, was 'Poetry' you know me This is my philosophy, many artists got to I'm not flammable, I don't
So please burnin', and learn to earn respect 'Cause that's just what KR See, do you expect when you rhyme like a soft punk You walk down the and get jumped You got to style, and learn to be original And everybody's wanna dis you me, we stood up for the South Bronx And every mc had a response
You think we care? I know they 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 forget me but can't 'Cause like a champ, I have got a 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 level be back, but for now just seckle
I'll play the and you play the target You all know my so I guess I'll just 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 'cause we all make why I walk with my head up When I hear wack I get fed up
Rap is a set-up, a lot of games A lot of suckas with names I'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm Huh, but they all wick-wick-wack I'm not white or red or I'm brown the Boogie Down Productions, of our music be thumpin' Others say they're bad, but buggin'
Let me tell you now about hip hop About D-Nice, Melodie, and La Rock get a pen, a pencil, a marker Mainly what I write is for the average New Some mc's be talkin' and Tryin' to show how black people are But I don't walk this way to Or stereotypes of today
Like all my brothas eat chicken and Talk broken English and drug See I'm tellin', and real facts The way some act in rap is of wack And it lacks and intelligence But they don't care the company is sellin' it my philosophy, on the industry Don't bother dissin' me, or even wish that
Soften, dilute, or all the lyrics 'Cause about time one of y'all hear it And it first-hand from the intelligent brown man A vegetarian, no or ham Or chicken or or hamburger 'Cause to me suicide self-murder Let us get to what we call hip hop And what it meant to DJ Scott La
How many must get dissed Before somebody says, don't Kris This is one style, out of many a piggy bank, this is one penny My brother's is Kenny, that's, Kenny Parker My other brother I.C.U. is much Boogie Down Productions is up of teachers The is conducted from the mic into the speaker
Who gets weaker? The or the teacher It's not about a salary it's all reality Teachers and do the world good just rule and most are never 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 everyone'd be for the king, am I wrong?
So yo, what's up, me again Scott La Rock, KRS, BDP Many had the nerve To think we would end the trend We're criminal minded, an album which is ten Funky, funky, funky, funky, funky hit No more than four minutes and seconds
The competition checks and and keeps checkin' take the album, take it home, and start sweatin' Why? well it's simple, to them 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 mention us, me or Scott La Rock But they can get get robbed, get dropped
I don't around nor do I f around And you can by the bodies that are left around When some clown up to get beat down down to his very last compound See how it sounds? A little A lot of mc's to use the word dramatical Fresh for '88, you