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Yo kris whassup this press stuff man? |
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Yo i don't money, i don't know, they frontin |
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Yo why we don't get no respect? |
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I don't know man |
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They got all them gangsta lookalike, know y'know |
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But you know what? |
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All them fraud magazines i'm tired of |
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I'm tired of us not bein on no covers |
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But you know what? |
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We rock the streets, anyway |
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Regardless to what anybody say |
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Well well, yo yo, i tell you |
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As long as you rip up the streets |
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You don't gotta have no press, youknowhati'msayin? |
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That's right |
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As long as you stay true to the streets |
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All these wannabe black, black, black |
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Black nuttin - you know, chewin all that black |
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Cause they ain't really reportin nuttin on no black nuttin |
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They wanna be right, and they wanna be, rap, and.. |
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That's why i read the final call |
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The final call got it goin on, youknowhati'msayin? |
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Yeah |
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I mean, if you really wanna check out somethin black |
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I mean, all these other magazines, they got |
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They can only show you the light-skinned girl |
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Or the light-skinned guy, and all of that, yaknowhati'msayin? |
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I ain't with all that nonsense |
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Ha hah, we won't name any names |
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But they know who they are though! |
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Ha hah, knowhati'msayin? watch yourself |
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I don't know why we can't get no covers though! |
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Yo kris, i don't why |
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Cause we just slammin everywhere we go |
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Yo, bdp been rockin for like six years now |
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Six long hard rough years, youknowhati'msayin? |
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And, and for some reason |
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Everytime these commercial acts come out |
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They get the cover the first.. |
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They could drop a twelve inch single |
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And they be snatchin up the cover |
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You know why? cause they don't wanna deal with reality |
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In any of these magazines |
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Hey kris, i got the answer to all your problems |
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What's that? |
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Just interview yourself |
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Interview myself? |
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Yeah! |
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Aight check it out |
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Kick it! |
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[krs-one] |
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Question: why everything you do is fresh? |
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Answer: my name, blastmaster krs |
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Question: you only write reality, why? |
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Answer: no time to waste, our people are going to die |
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Question: going to die? please explain this topic |
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Answer: some people are using ignorance to make a profit |
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Question: how do we stop it? |
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Answer: throw em in a jail cell and lock it |
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Question: why, are people so stupid? |
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Answer: they got a brain and fail to use it |
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Question: how did it get like this? |
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Answer: people are more worried about ass and tits and |
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Little bits of information |
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The barbarians teach us just to be barbarians in the nation |
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This new creation |
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Takes on the manifestation of the board of education |
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Question: what's the solution? |
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Answer: organized, revolution |
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Question: revolution implies killing.. |
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Answer: whether you fight or talk, the blood is |
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Still spilling, and we're chilling |
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Thinking of our history as elmer fudd |
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Everything, black people got in this country |
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They got through shedding their blood, word! |
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But they ain't gonna print all that |
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They too concerned about what you wearin |
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What kind of benz you got, or bm |
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But i think this year |
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Since we knockin all these sucker frauds out, |
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You might get some press |
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But when you talk that conciousness - |
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Nobody wants to listen |
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Word up, it's a crying shame though |
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I, ah-i tell you this though |
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If i was talkin sex and all that nonsense |
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I'd get all the covers |
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Yo kris, just chill, and interview yourself |
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That's what i like to hear |
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Aight aight check it out |
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[krs-one] |
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Everything you learned in law school |
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Can be taught, when you're six years old |
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But they make you wait and wait and wait and wait |
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And wait, and of course, the information, is then sold |
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But what if you can't afford to pay? |
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You walk around ignorant all day! |
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The pimp don't care, it's really your decision |
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Kick up that money hoe!! oh, i mean tuition |
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They be dissin, that ass you be kissin |
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Sittin in a room with a liar, and you must listen |
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Question: who are you dissin? |
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Answer: the concept that turns a rapper, into a dancer |
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Question: are you really all that fresh? |
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Answer: yes, yes.. yes! |
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Or, "si," to the people speakin spanish |
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You better make use of krs, before he vanish |
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But all these magazines'll vanish before you will |
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They better start printin the real real hip-hop |
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From bdp |
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Yo yo but check it out will |
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They ain't interested in no real hip-hop |
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They ain't interested in graffiti art, breakdancin |
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And real rap music, they just wanna know where the money is |
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Why why why? |
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Yo i think some of these journalists |
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Need to start gettin punched in they face |
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Hah, i got a big fist |
