Key: C major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Let
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me see, let me see
How should I start
I won't chart
like Mozart
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believe rap is an art
Wake up, shake up,
hypocrite look alive
Blastmaster KRS- One will revive
Some people say I am a rap missionary
Some people say I am a
walking dictionary
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But what I am is simply a black revolutionary
I write rhymes on plain stationary
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
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Uncle Tom house niggaz, too scary
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So they can't be around, I don't do this
field nigga
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The house nigga will sell you up the river
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So to massa, he'll look bigger
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But I'll grab the tail of the house nigga
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Pull the trigger and his head I'll deliver
To the court of righteous people
Black, white, or Indian, we're all equal
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So all ya racist codes I'll decode, explode
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And eat you like apple pie a la mode
don't bring me no hamhocks
Cause round the clock,
I'll kick their buttocks
All afternoon in the classroom,
in the living room
In the bathroom, in the swimming pool
On a footstool, then I'll stop - - nope,
April fools!
bat and somehow
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March your racist butt to Moscow
Verse 2
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Ya know what I'm saying?
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Are there any, are there any intelligent
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people in the house?
Verse 3
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What can I say, o ye of little faith
surely been erased
My words are subliminal,
sometimes metaphysical
I teach, not preach,
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you want a challenge? I'll start dissin you
I go philosophical by topical
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Hearin the call, ignorant, hot tropical
Ya want a palm tree
and nice dope shade?
Only if the universal law is obeyed
Which is "know thyself" for
better mental health
Yet so many rappers are pre
Other artists want belts and idols
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World cups from seminars and conventions
The award shows for pimps
and hoes
And every other hypocrite
that flaunt their clothes
from the average Joe's
So I confront them with the biggest chain
I believe it is the brain
I'm lovin it
and shrink em
Rap needed a teacher, so I became it
Rough and ready,
the beats are very steady
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Clap, there's another house niggaz neck
Another soft Unlce Tom crew is in check
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Ego wrecked and rhymes corrected
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By KRS- One, produced and directed
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