Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Will all be explained like
instructions to a game
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and I'll jump up to attack one
Everyone saw me on the
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Holding a pistol something
far from a lover
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I I I I I just laughed,
"My Philosophy"
Number one,
artists got to learn
I'm not flammable, I don't burn
and learn to earn respect
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Cause that's just what KR collects
You walk down the street and get jumped
and learn to be original
And everybody's gonna wanna diss you
Like me, we stood up for the
South Bronx
You think we care? I know that
they are on the tip
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A lot of suckers would
like to forget me
cause like a champ I have got a record
innovate on a higher level
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I'll be back, but for now just seckle! I'll
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play the nine and you play the target
You all know my name so
I guess I'll just start it
Yo, cos I'm a teacher and Scott is a scholar
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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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A lot of suckers with colorful names
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I'm I'm I'm not white or red or black,
Productions,
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of course our music be thumping
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I'll get a pen, a pencil, a marker
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Some MC's be talking and talking
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Trying to show how black
people are walking
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But I don't walk this way to portray
Like all my brothers eat
chicken and watermelon
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See I'm telling, and teaching pure facts
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The way some act in rap is kind of wack
And it lacks creativity and intelligence
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It's my philosophy, on the industry
Don't bother dissing me,
or even wishing we'd
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Cause it's about time one of y'all hear it
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A vegetarian, no goat or ham
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Or chicken or turkey or hamburger
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Verse 2
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How many MC's must get dissed
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Before somebody says,
"Don't f*** with Kris!"
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This is just one style, out of many
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Like a piggy bank, this is one penny
My brother's name is Kenny
- that's Kenny Parker
Boogie Down Productions is
The lecture is conducted from the
mic into the speaker
It's not about a salary it's all
about reality
Teachers teach and do
the world good
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Kings just rule and most
are never understood
All inside this room right now
would be in misery
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No one would get along nor sing a song
I say yo, what's up, it's me again
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Scott La Rock, KRS, BDP again
Many people had the nerve to
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With Criminal Minded,
an album which is only ten
funky hit records
No more than four minutes
and some seconds
The competition checks and checks
and keeps checking
and start sweating
Why? Well it's simple,
to them it's kind of vital
To take KRS-One's title
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To them I'm like an idol, some type of entity
In everybody's rhyme
they wanna mention me
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Or rather mention us, me or Scott La Rock
But they can get bust get robbed,
get dropped
I don't play around nor do I F around
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And you can tell by the bodies
up to get beat down
Broken down to his very last compound
See how it sounds? a little unrational
A lot of emcees like to use the
word dramatical!
Fresh for '88, you suckers
How did you like the song?
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