My Philosophy

My Philosophy Lyrics

Song My Philosophy
Artist Boogie Down Productions
Album Ministry of Sound Presents: Hip-Hop Anthems
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[00:00.64] So you're a philosopher
[00:02.48] Yes yes yes yes
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[00:08.90] Yes
[00:09.53] I think very deeply
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[00:12.00] I think very deeply
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[00:14.47] I think very deeply
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[00:17.76] I think I think I think very deeply
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[00:21.92] In about four seconds a teacher will begin to speak
[00:24.97] I think I think very deeply
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[00:26.83] Let us begin what where why or when
[00:29.99] Will all be explained like instructions to a game
[00:32.16] See I'm not insane in fact I'm kind of rational
[00:34.78] When I be asking you Who is more dramatical
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[00:37.54] This one or that one the white one or the black one
[00:40.01] Pick the punk and I'll jump up to attack one
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[00:42.65] KRS-One is just the guy to lead a crew
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[00:45.62] Right up to your face and dis you
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[00:47.70] Everyone saw me on the last album cover
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[00:50.33] Holding a pistol something far from a lover
[00:52.69] Beside my brother S-C-O-T-T
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[00:55.69] I just laughed 'cause no one can defeat me
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[00:58.51] This is lecture number two My Philosophy
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[01:00.89] Number one was Poetry you know it's me
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[01:03.41] This is my philosophy many artists got to learn
[01:05.88] I'm not flammable I don't burn
[01:07.96] So please stop burnin' and learn to earn respect
[01:10.62] 'Cause that's just what KRS collects
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[01:13.09] See what do you expect when you rhyme like a soft punk
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[01:16.12] You walk down the street and get jumped
[01:18.26] You got to have style and learn to be original
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[01:21.41] And everybody's gonna want to dis you
[01:23.45] Like me we stood up for the South Bronx
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[01:26.08] And every sucker MC had a response
[01:28.26] You think we care
[01:29.62] I know that they are on the tip
[01:31.54] My posse from the Bronx is thick
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[01:33.62] And we're real live
[01:34.79] We roll correctly
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[01:36.28] A lot of suckas would like to forget me
[01:38.48] But they can't
[01:39.64] 'Cause like a champ I have got a record
[01:41.83] Of knocking out the frauds in a second
[01:43.83] On the mic I believe that you should get loose
[01:46.37] I haven't come to tell you I got juice
[01:48.61] I just produce create
[01:49.97] Innovate on a higher level
[01:51.64] I'll be back but for now just seckle
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[02:04.40] I'll play the nine and you play the target
[02:06.70] You all know my name
[02:07.74] So I guess I'll just start it
[02:09.19] Or should I say start this I am an artist
[02:11.98] Of new concepts at their hardest
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[02:14.33] Yo 'cause I'm a teacher the Scott is a scholar
[02:16.90] It ain't about money 'cause we all make dollars
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[02:19.55] That's why I walk with my head up
[02:22.21] When I hear wack rhymes I get fed up
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[02:24.61] Rap is like a set-up a lot of games
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[02:27.66] A lot of suckas with colorful names
[02:29.40] I'm so-and-so I'm this I'm that
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[02:32.79] Huh but they all just wick-wick-wack
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[02:34.73] I'm not white or red or black
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[02:37.23] I'm brown from the Boogie Down
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[02:40.02] Productions of course our music be thumpin'
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[02:42.72] Others say they're bad but they're buggin'
[02:45.10] Let me tell you something now about hip-hop
[02:47.75] About D-Nice Melodie and Scott LaRock
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[02:50.32] I'll get a pen a pencil a marker
[02:52.82] Mainly what I write is for the average New Yorker
[02:55.10] Some MC's be talkin' and talkin'
[02:57.90] Tryin' to show how black people are walkin'
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[03:00.56] But I don't walk this way to portray
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[03:02.96] Or reinforce stereotypes of today
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[03:05.28] Like all my bruthas eat chicken and watermelon
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[03:07.89] Talk broken English and drug sellin'
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[03:10.54] See I'm tellin' and teachin' real facts
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[03:12.98] The way some act in rap is kind of wack
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[03:16.34] And it lacks creativity and intelligence
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[03:18.46] But they don't care
[03:19.55] Cause the company is sellin' it
[03:20.99] It's my philosophy on the industry
[03:23.39] Don't bother dissin' me or even wish that we'd
[03:26.05] Soften dilute or commercialize all the lyrics
[03:28.77] 'Cause it's about time one of y'all hear it
[03:31.19] And hear it first-hand from the intelligent brown man
[03:33.69] A vegetarian no goat or ham
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[03:36.42] Or chicken or turkey or hamburger
[03:38.98] 'Cause to me that's suicide self murder
[03:41.53] Let us get back to what we call hip-hop
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[03:44.39] And what it meant to DJ Scott LaRock
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[03:56.61] How many MC's must get dissed
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[03:58.97] Before somebody says Don't with Kris
[04:01.55] This is just one style out of many
[04:04.58] Like a piggy bank this is just one penny
[04:06.72] My brother's name is Kenny that's Kenny Parker
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[04:09.40] My other brother I C U is much darker
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[04:11.79] Boogie Down Productions is made up of teachers
[04:14.26] The lecture is conducted from the mic into
[04:16.44] The speakers
[04:17.19] Who gets weaker The King or the teacher
[04:19.36] It's not about a salary it's all about reality
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[04:21.90] Teachers teach and do the world good
[04:24.45] Kings just rule and most were never understood
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[04:26.96] If you were to rule or govern a certain industry
[04:29.62] All inside this room right now would be in misery
[04:32.29] No one would get along nor sing a song
[04:34.76] 'Cause everyone'd be singin' for the King
[04:36.77] Am I wrong
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[04:37.85] So yo what's up it's me again
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[04:40.30] Scott LaRock KRS BDP again
[04:42.63] Many people had the nerve
[04:43.81] To think we would end the trend
[04:45.28] We're criminal minded an album which is only ten
[04:47.82] Funky funky funky funky funky hit records
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[04:50.74] No more than four minutes and some seconds
[04:52.82] The competition checks and checks and keeps checkin'
[04:55.23] They take the album take it home and start sweatin'
[04:57.92] Why Well it's simple to them it's kind of vital
[05:00.45] To take KRS-One's title
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[05:03.28] To them I'm like an idol some kind of entity
[05:05.94] In everybody's rhyme they want to mention me
[05:08.10] Or rather mention us me or Scott LaRock
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[05:10.58] But they can get bust get robbed get dropped
[05:13.13] I don't play around nor do I f around
[05:15.74] And you can tell by the bodies that are left around
[05:18.24] When some clown jumps up to get beat down
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[05:21.24] Broken down to his very last compound
[05:23.76] See how it sounds A little unrational
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[05:26.19] A lot of MC's like to use the word dramatical
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[05:29.04] Fresh for 88
[05:30.92] You suckas
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