My Philosophy
My Philosophy

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    Verse 1
    Let us 
    be
    gin, 

    what, 
    where, 
    why 
    or 
    when 

    Will 
    all be 
    explained 
    like 

    instructions 
    to a 
    game 

    See 
    I'm not 
    insane, 

    in fact 
    I'm kind of 
    rational 

    When I be 
    asking 
    you, 

    "Who is 
    more dramatical?" 

    This 
    one 
    or 
    that one, 

    the 
    white 
    one or the 
    black 
    one 

    Pick 
    the 
    punk, 

    and I'll jump 
    up to at
    tack 
    one 

    KRS-One 
    is just 
    the guy to 
    lead a 
    crew 

    Right 
    up 
    to your 
    face 
    and 
    diss 
    you 

    Everyone 
    saw 
    me 
    on the 

    last 
    album 
    cover 

    Holding 
    pis
    tol 
    something 

    far 
    from 
    a lover 

    Be
    side 
    my 
    brother, 
    S-C-O-T-T 

    I I 
    just 
    laughed, 

    cause 
    no one 
    can defeat 
    me 

    This 
    is lecture 
    number 
    two, 

    "My Philosophy" 

    Number 
    one, 

    was 
    "Poetry" 
    you 
    know it's 
    me 

    This 
    is "My 
    Philosophy," 
    many 

    artists 
    got 
    to learn 

    I'm not 
    flammable, 
    don't 
    burn 

    So 
    please 
    stop 
    burning, 

    and learn 
    to 
    earn respect 

    Cause 
    that's 
    just 
    what 
    KR 
    collects 

    See, 
    what do 
    you expect 
    when you 

    rhyme 
    like a 
    soft 
    punk 

    You 
    walk 
    down the 
    street 
    and get 
    jumped 

    You 
    got to 
    have style, 

    and learn 
    to be 
    original 

    And 
    everybody's 
    gonna 
    wanna 
    diss 
    you 

    Like 
    me, 
    we 
    stood up 
    for the 

    South 
    Bronx 

    And every 
    sucker 
    MC 
    had a 
    respon
    se 

    You 
    think 
    we care? 
    know that 

    they 
    are on the 
    tip 

    My 
    posse 
    from the 
    Bronx 
    is 
    thick 

    In 
    real 
    real 
    life, 
    we 
    roll 
    correctly 

    lot of 
    suckers 
    would 

    like to 
    forget 
    me 

    But they 
    can't, 

    cause 
    like a 
    champ 
    I have 
    got 
    a record 

    Of 
    knocking 
    out the 
    frauds 
    in a 
    second 

    On 
    the mic, 
    believe 
    that 

    you should 
    get 
    loose 

    haven't 
    come to 
    tell you 
    I got 
    juice 

    just produce, 
    create, 

    innovate 
    on 
    a higher 
    level 

    I'll be 
    back, 
    but for 
    now 
    just 
    seckle! I'll 

    play 
    the nine 
    and 
    you play 
    the 
    target 

    You 
    all 
    know my 
    name 
    so 

    I guess 
    I'll just start 
    it 

    Or 
    should I 
    say 
    start 
    this, 

    teaching 
    I'm the 
    artist 

    Styles 
    and 
    new concepts 
    at their 
    hardest 

    Yo, 
    cos 
    I'm 
    a teacher 
    and 
    Scott 
    is a 
    scholar 

    It 
    ain't 
    about 
    money 
    cause we 

    all 
    make 
    dollars 

    That's 
    why 
    walk 
    with my 
    head 
    up 

    When 
    I hear 
    wack 
    rhymes 
    get 
    fed 
    up 

    Rap 
    is like 
    a set-up, 
    lot 
    of 
    games 

    lot of 
    suckers 
    with 
    colorful 
    names 

    I'm 
    so-and-so, 

    I'm I'm 
    I'm 
    this, 
    I'm 
    that 

    Huh, 
    but they 
    all 
    just 
    wick-wick-wack 

    I'm 
    I'm 
    I'm not 
    white 
    or 
    red 
    or 
    black, 

    I'm 
    brown 

    From 
    the 
    Boogie 
    Down 

    Productions, 

    of 
    course 
    our 
    music 
    be 
    thumping 

    Others 
    say they're 
    bad, 

    but 
    they're 
    bug
    ging 

    Let me 
    tell you 
    something 

    now 
    about 
    Hip 
    Hop 

    About 
    D-Nice, Melodie, 
    Melodie, 

    and 
    Scott 
    La Rock 

    I'll 
    get a 
    pen, 
    pencil, 
    marker 

    Mainly 
    what 
    write 
    is for the 

    av
    erage 
    New 
    Yorker 

    Some 
    MC's be 
    talk
    ing 
    and 
    talking 

    Trying 
    to show 
    how black 

    people 
    are 
    walking 

    But 
    I don't 
    walk 
    this 
    way to 
    portray 

    Or 
    reinforce 
    stereotypes 
    of 
    today 

    Like 
    all 
    my 
    brothers 
    eat 

    chicken 
    and 
    watermelon 

    Talk 
    broken 
    eng
    lish 
    and 
    drug 
    selling 

    See 
    I'm 
    telling, 
    and 
    teaching 
    pure 
    facts 

    The 
    way some 
    act 
    in rap 
    is 
    kind 
    of 
    wack 

    And it 
    lacks 
    creativity 
    and intelligence 

    But 
    they don't 
    care 
    cause their 

    company's 
    selling 
    it 

    It's 
    my philosophy, 
    on the 
    industry 

    Don't 
    bother 
    dissing me, 

    or 
    even 
    wishing 
    we'd 

    Soften, 
    dilute, 

    or com
    mercialize 
    all 
    the lyrics 

    Cause 
    it's 
    about 
    time 
    one 
    of y'all 
    hear 
    it 

    And 
    hear 
    it first-hand 
    from 
    from an 

    in
    telligent 
    brown 
    man 

    vegetarian, 
    no 
    goat 
    or 
    ham 

    Or 
    chicken 
    or 
    turkey 
    or 
    hamburger

    Cause 
    to me 
    that's 
    suicide, 
    self-murder 

    Let 
    Let 
    us 
    get back 
    to 

    what we 
    call 
    Hip 
    Hop 

    And 
    what 
    it meant to 
    DJ 
    Scott 

    La 
    Rock 



    Verse 2
    How 
    many 
    MC's must 
    get dissed 

    Be
    fore somebody 
    says, 

    "Don't 
    f*** with Kris!" 

    This 
    is just 
    one 
    style, 
    out 
    of many 

    Like a 
    piggy 
    bank, 
    this 
    is one 
    penny 

    My 
    brother's 
    name 
    is Kenny 

    - that's 
    Kenny 
    Parker 

    My 
    other 
    brother 
    I.C.U. 
    is 
    much 
    darker 

    Boogie 
    Down Productions 
    is 

    made 
    up of 
    teachers 

    The lecture 
    is conducted 
    from the 

    mic 
    into the 
    speaker 

    Who gets 
    weaker? 
    The 

    king 
    or the 
    teacher 

    It's 
    not 
    about 
    a salary 
    it's all 

    about reality 

    Teachers 
    teach 
    and 
    do 

    the 
    world 
    good 

    Kings just 
    rule 
    and most 

    are never 
    understood 

    If 
    you were 
    to 
    rule or 
    gov
    ern 

    a certain 
    industry 

    All inside 
    this 
    room 
    right now 

    would 
    be 
    in misery 

    No 
    one 
    would get 
    along 
    nor 
    sing 
    song 

    Cause 
    everyone'd be 
    singing 
    for the 
    king, 

    am I 
    wrong?! 

    I say 
    yo, 
    what's 
    up, 
    it's 
    me 
    again 

    Scott La 
    Rock, 
    KRS, BDP again 

    Many 
    people 
    had 
    the nerve to 

    think 
    we would 
    end the 
    trend 

    With Criminal 
    Minded, 

    an 
    album 
    which 
    is only 
    ten 

    Funky, 
    funky, 
    funky, 
    funky, 

    funky 
    hit 
    records 

    No 
    more than 
    four 
    minutes 

    and some 
    seconds 

    The competition 
    checks 
    and checks 

    and keeps 
    checking 

    They 
    take the 
    album, 
    take 
    it home, 

    and start sweating 

    Why? 
    Well 
    it's simple, 

    to 
    them it's 
    kind 
    of vital 

    To 
    take 
    KRS-One's 
    title 

    To 
    them 
    I'm like 
    an idol, 
    some 
    type 
    of entity 

    In 
    everybody's 
    rhyme 

    they wanna 
    mention 
    me 

    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 
    around 

    And 
    you can 
    tell 
    by the 
    bodies 

    that are 
    left 
    around 

    When some 
    clown 
    jumps 

    up to 
    get 
    beat 
    down 

    Broken 
    down 
    to his 
    very 
    last 
    compound 

    See 
    how it 
    sounds? 
    little 
    unrational 

    A lot 
    of 
    emcees like 
    to use the 

    word dramatical! 

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