[00:00:01] It's meant to be evidently [00:00:02] When I rock so eloquently [00:00:03] Put the beat on and let me [00:00:04] Kill another wack emcee [00:00:05] Can't trust them never test me [00:00:07] I practice and study [00:00:08] But I'm not in it for the money [00:00:10] But to me they look so funny [00:00:11] You can't test the teacher [00:00:12] The teacher won't reach intact [00:00:13] Through the speaker you're weaker now sit your a** in the back [00:00:16] My lyrical you hear it you fear it you can't get near it [00:00:19] Cause the spirit eat Eric [00:00:20] And Eric your rhymes is wack [00:00:22] Like that that right back [00:00:43] Check it out [00:00:46] Check it like this [00:00:47] Just skills You know you gots to build just skills [00:00:52] You know you gots to build just skills uh come on get down [00:00:55] Just skills You know we got to build just skills come on get down [00:01:01] I got that rip track flip that underground rap [00:01:03] When I kick back [00:01:04] Most of what I'm hearin be weak [00:01:06] So I speak through beats and the streets as I teach [00:01:08] I impeach through speech each lyric leech I reach [00:01:11] Have a seat in the lecture [00:01:12] Nothin can protect you [00:01:14] Hard is the texture [00:01:15] Of the mic wreckin rock in your sector [00:01:17] Better than ever remember I am no beginner [00:01:19] I like to shout out Eric Skinner [00:01:21] Just skills you know we gots to build just skills come on a get down [00:01:26] Just skills you know we gots to build just skills come on a get down [00:01:31] Yo we livin in a world of private jets and limousine [00:01:34] The fruit we eatin as we prepare tangerine to nectarine [00:01:36] See everybody livin in the same routine [00:01:39] We need the telephone and yes we need the fax machine [00:01:41] You listen to the sound well I think you know it's me [00:01:44] Now let me educate you with my concious poetry [00:01:46] Me want me want me want me want me want no wack rap [00:01:49] Me want me want me want me want me want no wack rap [00:01:51] Me love me love me love me love me love it when it's bad [00:01:54] See if you wack rap you ought be steppin out the back [00:01:56] See emcees on the microphone forgettin that they black [00:01:59] See hear them kick the lyrics that are holdin people back [00:02:01] But when you hear the teacher KRS will find the track [00:02:04] You bound to see the light and you don't want return back [00:02:06] So listen very closely to the secret scientist [00:02:09] I'm sending this one out to all my inner city kids [00:02:12] Now you supposed to be apostle what you have inside your head [00:02:14] Can make you more reliable it can make you feel dead [00:02:17] Now listen very closely to the way I say this rhyme [00:02:19] It's the thing called the brain and the thing called the mind [00:02:22] But I'm outta time [00:02:26] Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [00:02:31] No you can't cause now you bouts to get done [00:02:33] Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [00:02:35] Never had a gun never had a gun [00:02:38] Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [00:02:41] No you can't cause now you bouts to get done [00:02:43] Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [00:02:45] Never had a gun never had a gun [00:02:48] On the block you just yap a whole lot [00:02:50] About the clothes that you got [00:02:51] Yo or the gold that you got [00:02:52] Everybody sees all the friends in your Benz yo it's fat [00:02:55] But they ain't gettin money like that [00:02:57] Word to my brother Kenny jealous one envy [00:02:59] The rich are few while the poor many [00:03:02] But you got gold cuffs and cars and stuff [00:03:04] You eatin well but still in the ghetto you dwell [00:03:07] You know it's hot so you make it known about your glock [00:03:10] To any perpetrator tryin to blow up your spot [00:03:12] You grab the microphone and talk a good ramble [00:03:14] You the hardcore outlaw criminal vandal [00:03:17] Burnin emcees like a candle but you frontin