It's meant to be evidently when I rock so Put the beat on and let me kill wack emcee Can't them, never test me, I practice and study But I'm not in it for the money, but to me they look so You can't test the teacher, the teacher won't intact Through the you're weaker, now sit your ass in the back My lyrical you it, you fear it, you can't get near it 'Cause the spirit eat Eric and Eric rhymes is wack Like that, that, right
Check, check it out, check it like Just skills, you know you gots to just skills You know you gots to just skills, uh come on get down Just skills, you know we got to build just skills, on get down
Yeah, uh come on, I got that rip track, flip that, rap When I kick back, of what I'm hearin' be weak So I speak beats and the streets as I teach I impeach, through speech, each lyric leech I Have a seat in the lecture can protect you is the texture of the mic wreckin' rock in your sector Better than ever I am no beginner I like to out Eric Skinner
Just skills, you know we gots to just skills A on a get down Just skills, you know we gots to build just A on a get down
Yo, we in a world of private jets and limousine The we eatin' as we prepare tangerine to nectarine See everybody livin' in the routine We need the telephone, and yes, we the fax machine You to the sound, well I think you know it's me Now, let me educate you my conscious poetry
Me want, me want, me want, me want, me want no rap Me want, me want, me want, me want, me no wack rap Me love, me love, me love, me love, me love it it's bad See if you wack rap you be steppin' out the back See emcees on the microphone forgettin' that they See hear them kick the lyrics that are holdin' back
But when you hear the teacher, KRS will the track You bound to see the light, and you don't want return So very closely to the secret scientist I'm this one out to all my inner city kids Now you supposed to be apostle what you have your head Can make you more reliable, it can make you dead
Now listen very closely to the way I say rhyme the thing called the brain, and the thing called the mind But I'm time
Can I tell them that I never had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you to get done Can I tell them I really never had a gun Never had a gun, never had a Can I tell that I really never had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you 'bouts to get Can I tell them I really never had a gun Never had a gun, had a gun?
On the block you yap a whole lot About the clothes you got, yo, or the gold that you got Everybody sees all the friends in your Benz, yo, fat But they ain't gettin' like that to my brother Kenny, jealous one envy The rich are few, while the poor, But you got gold and cars and stuff You eatin' well, but still in the ghetto you
You know it's hot, so you make it known about glock To any perpetrator tryin' to blow up your You grab the microphone and a good ramble You the hardcore outlaw, criminal, Burnin' like a candle, but you frontin' You ain't got nothin', your life you gamble One day you gamble up eyes Talkin' all that junk about you don't take dives, you take
Nobody on the tries, 'cause you claim you got powerful ties So at the red light you And to your surprise you get huffed up with two steak knives You're terrified, they your Benz, and what makes things worse You got gun the first
Can I tell them that I never had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you to get done Can I tell them I really never had a gun Never had a gun, never had a Can I tell that I really never had a gun? No, you can't 'cause now you 'bouts to get Can I tell them that I never had a gun had a gun, never had a gun?