[00:00:00] My Philosophy (LP Version) - Boogie Down Productions [00:00:00] So you're a philosopher [00:00:02] Yes yes yes yes [00:00:08] Yes [00:00:09] I think very deeply [00:00:12] I think very deeply [00:00:14] I think very deeply [00:00:17] I think I think I think very deeply [00:00:21] In about four seconds a teacher will begin to speak [00:00:24] I think I think very deeply [00:00:26] Let us begin what where why or when [00:00:29] Will all be explained like instructions to a game [00:00:32] See I'm not insane in fact I'm kind of rational [00:00:34] When I be asking you Who is more dramatical [00:00:37] This one or that one the white one or the black one [00:00:40] Pick the punk and I'll jump up to attack one [00:00:42] KRS-One is just the guy to lead a crew [00:00:45] Right up to your face and dis you [00:00:47] Everyone saw me on the last album cover [00:00:50] Holding a pistol something far from a lover [00:00:52] Beside my brother S-C-O-T-T [00:00:55] I just laughed 'cause no one can defeat me [00:00:58] This is lecture number two My Philosophy [00:01:00] Number one was Poetry you know it's me [00:01:03] This is my philosophy many artists got to learn [00:01:05] I'm not flammable I don't burn [00:01:07] So please stop burnin' and learn to earn respect [00:01:10] 'Cause that's just what KRS collects [00:01:13] See what do you expect when you rhyme like a soft punk [00:01:16] You walk down the street and get jumped [00:01:18] You got to have style and learn to be original [00:01:21] And everybody's gonna want to dis you [00:01:23] Like me we stood up for the South Bronx [00:01:26] And every sucker MC had a response [00:01:28] You think we care [00:01:29] I know that they are on the tip [00:01:31] My posse from the Bronx is thick [00:01:33] And we're real live [00:01:34] We roll correctly [00:01:36] A lot of suckas would like to forget me [00:01:38] But they can't [00:01:39] 'Cause like a champ I have got a record [00:01:41] Of knocking out the frauds in a second [00:01:43] On the mic I believe that you should get loose [00:01:46] I haven't come to tell you I got juice [00:01:48] I just produce create [00:01:49] Innovate on a higher level [00:01:51] I'll be back but for now just seckle [00:02:04] I'll play the nine and you play the target [00:02:06] You all know my name [00:02:07] So I guess I'll just start it [00:02:09] Or should I say start this I am an artist [00:02:11] Of new concepts at their hardest [00:02:14] Yo 'cause I'm a teacher the Scott is a scholar [00:02:16] It ain't about money 'cause we all make dollars [00:02:19] That's why I walk with my head up [00:02:22] When I hear wack rhymes I get fed up [00:02:24] Rap is like a set-up a lot of games [00:02:27] A lot of suckas with colorful names [00:02:29] I'm so-and-so I'm this I'm that [00:02:32] Huh but they all just wick-wick-wack [00:02:34] I'm not white or red or black [00:02:37] I'm brown from the Boogie Down [00:02:40] Productions of course our music be thumpin' [00:02:42] Others say they're bad but they're buggin' [00:02:45] Let me tell you something now about hip-hop [00:02:47] About D-Nice Melodie and Scott LaRock [00:02:50] I'll get a pen a pencil a marker [00:02:52] Mainly what I write is for the average New Yorker [00:02:55] Some MC's be talkin' and talkin' [00:02:57] Tryin' to show how black people are walkin' [00:03:00] But I don't walk this way to portray [00:03:02] Or reinforce stereotypes of today [00:03:05] Like all my bruthas eat chicken and watermelon [00:03:07] Talk broken English and drug sellin' [00:03:10] See I'm tellin' and teachin' real facts [00:03:12] The way some act in rap is kind of wack [00:03:16] And it lacks creativity and intelligence [00:03:18] But they don't care [00:03:19] Cause the company is sellin' it [00:03:20] It's my philosophy on the industry