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Boogie down productions will always get paid |
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We'll take the wackest song and make it better |
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Remember to let us into your skin |
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Cause then you'll begin to master |
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Rhymin rhymin rhymin |
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Criminal minded you've been blinded |
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Lookin for a style like mine you can't find it |
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They are the audience I am the lyricist |
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Sometimes the suckas on the side gotta hear this |
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Page a rage and I'm not in a cage |
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Free as a bird to fly up out on stage |
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Ain't here for no frontin just to say a little somethin |
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Ya suckaz don't like me cause you're all about nothin |
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However I'm really fascinating to the letter |
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My all-around performance gets better and better |
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My english grammar comes down like a hammer |
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You need a style I need to pull your file |
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I don't beg favors you're kissing other people's |
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I write and produce myself just as fast |
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Keep my hair like this got no time for jheri curls |
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Attractin only women got no time for little girls |
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Cause girls look so good |
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But their brain is not ready I don't know |
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I'd rather talk to a woman |
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Cause her mind is so steady so here we go |
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I'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanatic |
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I simply made use of what was upstairs in the attic |
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I've listened to these mc's back when I was a kid |
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But I bust more shots than they ever did |
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I mean this is not the best of krs it's just a section |
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But how many times must I point you in the right direction |
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You need protection when I'm on the mic |
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Because my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipe |
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You're a king I'm a teacher |
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You're a b-boy I'm a scholar |
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If this was a class well it would go right under drama |
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See kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent |
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Talkin big words on the mic but still irrelevant |
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Especially when you're not college material |
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Wake up every morning to your lucky charms cereal |
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Dj scott larock has a college degree |
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Blastmaster krs writes poetry |
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I won't go deeper in the subject cause that gets me bored |
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It's a shame to know some mc's on the mic are fraud |
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Sayin styles like this to create a diss |
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But if you listen who you dissin |
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See I am a musician |
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Rappin on the mic like this to me is fine |
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Cause if I really want to battle I will put out a nine |
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You can see that scott larock and I are mentally binded |
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In other words we're both criminal minded |
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We're not promoting violence we're just havin some fun |
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He's scott larock I'm krs-one |
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Never off-beat cause it don't make sense |
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Grab the microphone relaxed and not tense |
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You waited debated and now you activated |
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A musical genius that could not be duplicated |
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See I have the formula for rockin the house |
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If you cannot rock a party do not open your mouth |
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It's that simple no phony cosmetics to your pimple |
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Take another look because the gear is not wrinkled |
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The k the r the s the o the n the e |
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Sayin rhyme for eighty-seven not from 1983 |
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Well versed to rehearse and my rhymes are my curse |
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Originality come first but the suckers get worse |
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Allow me to include I have a very stable mood |
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Poetic education of a high altitude |
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I'm not an mc so listen call me poet or musician |
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A genius when it comes to making music with ambition |
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I'm cool collected with the rhyme I directed |
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Don't wanna be elected as the king of a record |
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Just respected by others as the man with the solution |
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An artist of the 80's came and left his contribution |
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On wax relax there's 24 tracks |
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After years of rocking parties now I picked up the knack |
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Because everything that flows from out my larynx |
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Takes years of experience and bottles of beck's |
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I cannot seem to recollect the time I didn't have sex |
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Is it real or is it memorex |
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I'm livin in a city known as new york state |
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Sucka mc's gotta wait while I translate |
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I hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their heads |
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People with ambition and straight up musicians |
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Although our lives have been so uprooted |
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I have it included you all get zooted |
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So take each letter of the krs-one |
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Means knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everyone |
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You look at me and laugh but this is your class |
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It's an all-out discussion of the suckas I be crushin |
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So now you are awakened to the music I be makin |
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Never duplicated and also highly cultivated |
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Don't get frustrated cause nothin has been traded |
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Only activated it came out very complicated |
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Not separated from my dj |
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You see my voice is now faded |
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I'll see you folks around the way |
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Criminal minded |
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Criminal minded |
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Criminal minded |
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Criminal minded |
