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So you're a philosopher |
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Yes yes yes yes |
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Yes |
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I think very deeply |
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I think very deeply |
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I think very deeply |
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I think I think I think very deeply |
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In about four seconds a teacher will begin to speak |
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I think I think very deeply |
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Let us begin what where why or when |
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Will all be explained like instructions to a game |
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See I'm not insane in fact I'm kind of rational |
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When I be asking you Who is more dramatical |
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This one or that one the white one or the black one |
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Pick the punk and I'll jump up to attack one |
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KRS-One is just the guy to lead a crew |
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Right up to your face and dis you |
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Everyone saw me on the last album cover |
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Holding a pistol something far from a lover |
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Beside my brother S-C-O-T-T |
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I just laughed 'cause no one can defeat me |
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This is lecture number two My Philosophy |
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Number one was Poetry you know it's me |
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This is my philosophy many artists got to learn |
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I'm not flammable I don't burn |
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So please stop burnin' and learn to earn respect |
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'Cause that's just what KRS collects |
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See what do you expect when you rhyme like a soft punk |
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You walk down the street and get jumped |
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You got to have style and learn to be original |
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And everybody's gonna want to dis you |
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Like me we stood up for the South Bronx |
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And every sucker MC had a response |
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You think we care |
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I know that they are on the tip |
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My posse from the Bronx is thick |
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And we're real live |
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We roll correctly |
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A lot of suckas would like to forget me |
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But they can't |
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'Cause like a champ I have got a record |
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Of knocking out the frauds in a second |
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On the mic I believe that you should get loose |
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I haven't come to tell you I got juice |
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I just produce create |
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Innovate on a higher level |
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I'll be back but for now just seckle |
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I'll play the nine and you play the target |
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You all know my name |
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So I guess I'll just start it |
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Or should I say start this I am an artist |
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Of new concepts at their hardest |
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Yo 'cause I'm a teacher the Scott is a scholar |
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It ain't about money 'cause we all make dollars |
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That's why I walk with my head up |
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When I hear wack rhymes I get fed up |
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Rap is like a set-up a lot of games |
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A lot of suckas with colorful names |
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I'm so-and-so I'm this I'm that |
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Huh but they all just wick-wick-wack |
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I'm not white or red or black |
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I'm brown from the Boogie Down |
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Productions of course our music be thumpin' |
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Others say they're bad but they're buggin' |
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Let me tell you something now about hip-hop |
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About D-Nice Melodie and Scott LaRock |
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I'll get a pen a pencil a marker |
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Mainly what I write is for the average New Yorker |
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Some MC's be talkin' and talkin' |
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Tryin' to show how black people are walkin' |
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But I don't walk this way to portray |
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Or reinforce stereotypes of today |
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Like all my bruthas eat chicken and watermelon |
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Talk broken English and drug sellin' |
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See I'm tellin' and teachin' real facts |
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The way some act in rap is kind of wack |
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And it lacks creativity and intelligence |
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But they don't care |
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Cause the company is sellin' it |
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It's my philosophy on the industry |
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Don't bother dissin' me or even wish that we'd |
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Soften dilute or commercialize all the lyrics |
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'Cause it's about time one of y'all hear it |
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And hear it first-hand from the intelligent brown man |
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A vegetarian no goat or ham |
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Or chicken or turkey or hamburger |
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'Cause to me that's suicide self murder |
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Let us get back to what we call hip-hop |
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And what it meant to DJ Scott LaRock |
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How many MC's must get dissed |
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Before somebody says Don't with Kris |
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This is just one style out of many |
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Like a piggy bank this is just one penny |
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My brother's name is Kenny that's Kenny Parker |
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My other brother I C U is much darker |
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Boogie Down Productions is made up of teachers |
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The lecture is conducted from the mic into |
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The speakers |
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Who gets weaker The King or the teacher |
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It's not about a salary it's all about reality |
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Teachers teach and do the world good |
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Kings just rule and most were never understood |
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If you were to rule or govern a certain industry |
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All inside this room right now would be in misery |
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No one would get along nor sing a song |
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'Cause everyone'd be singin' for the King |
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Am I wrong |
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So yo what's up it's me again |
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Scott LaRock KRS BDP again |
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Many people had the nerve |
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To think we would end the trend |
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We're criminal minded an album which is only ten |
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Funky funky funky funky funky hit records |
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No more than four minutes and some seconds |
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The competition checks and checks and keeps checkin' |
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They take the album take it home and start sweatin' |
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Why Well it's simple to them it's kind of vital |
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To take KRS-One's title |
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To them I'm like an idol some kind of entity |
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In everybody's rhyme they want to mention me |
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Or rather mention us me or Scott LaRock |
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But they can get bust get robbed get dropped |
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I don't play around nor do I f around |
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And you can tell by the bodies that are left around |
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When some clown jumps up to get beat down |
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Broken down to his very last compound |
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See how it sounds A little unrational |
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A lot of MC's like to use the word dramatical |
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Fresh for 88 |
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You suckas |
