Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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Boogie Down Productions
will always get paid,
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d make it better,
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re member to let us into your skin,
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cause then you'll begin to master
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rhyming, rhyming, rhyming.
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Criminal minded,
looking for a star like mine,
you can't find it,
They are the audience, I am the lyricist
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Sometimes the suckers on the side
gotta hear this
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Hey, a rage, and I'm not in a cage
Free as a bird to fly about on stage
just to say a little somethin'
cause you're all about nothin'
However,
I'm really fascinating to the letter
gets better and better
My English grammar comes
down like a hammer
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You need a star, I need to put your pot on
I write and produce myself just as fast
Keep my hair like this,
got no time for sherry girls
Attracting only women,
got no time for little girls
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Cause girls look so good,
but their brain is not ready
I don't know,
I'd rather talk to a woman
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I'm not a musical maniac,
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what was upstairs in the attic
back when I was a kid
it's just a section
But how many times
I'm on the mic
you're a b -boy, I'm a scholar
If this was a class,
well, it would go right under drama
See, kings lose crowns,
but teachers stay intelligent
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Talking big words on the mic
non -college material
Wake up every morning
to your Lucky Charms cereal
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DJ Scott LaRock has a college degree
Blastmaster KRS writes poetry
I won't go deeper in the subject
cause that gets me bored
some X's on the mic are fraud
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Saying stuff like this
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But if you listen to me dissing,
then I am a musician
this to me is fine
Cause if I really wanna battle,
I will pull out a knife
and I are mentally binded
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In other word s, we're both criminal minded
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We're not promoting violence,
we're just having some fun
He's Scott LaRock, I'm KRS -One
Never off beat cause it
don't make sense
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Grab a microphone, relax and not tense
You waited, debated,
and now you activated
A musical genius that
cannot be duplicated
See, I have the formula for rockin' the house
do not open your mouth
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It's that simple,
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a baby cottonette is for your pimple
because the gear is not wrinkled
The K, the R, the S, the O, the N, the E
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Well versed to rehearse,
but the suckers get worse
Allow me to include,
I have a very stable mood
Poetic education of a high altitude
I'm not an MC,
so listen, call me poet or musician
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A genius when it comes to making
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I'm cool, collected with
the rhymes I directed
Don't wanna be elected
Just respected by others
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An artist of the 80's
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Oh wax, relax, it's 24 tracks
After years of rockin' parties,
now I picked up the knack
Because everything that flows
from out my larynx
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Take years of experience, the Bible's a vex
the time I didn't have sex
Is it real, or is it memorex?
I'm living in a city
known as New York State
Sucker answers gotta wait while I translate
I hang with real live dreads,
with knowledge in their hands
and straight up musicians
Although our lives have been so uprooted
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I haven't included or consulted
So take each letter of the KRS -One
Means knowledge will be supreme
over nearly everyone
You look at me and laugh,
but this is your class
It's an all -out discussion
of the suckers I be crushin'
So now you are awakened
to the music I be makin'
Never duplicated,
and also highly cultivated
Don't get frustrated,
but nothing has been traded
but kinda very complicated
yeah, see, my voice is now faded
I'll see you folks around the way
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Criminal -minded
Criminal -minded
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Criminal mind you
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