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