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Boogie Down Productions will always get paidWe'll take the wackest song and make it betterRemember to let us into your skinCause then you'll begin, to masterRhymin' rhymin' rhymin'Criminal minded, you've been blindedLooking for a style like mine you can't find itThey are the audience, I am the lyricistSometimes the suckers on the side gotta hear thisPage, a rage, and I'm not in a cageFree as a bird to fly up out on stageAin't here for no fronting just to say a little somethingYou suckers don't like me cause you're all about nothingHowever, I'm really fascinating to the letterMy all-around performance gets better and betterMy English grammar comes down like a hammerYou need a style, I need to pull your fileI don't beg favors, you're kissing other people's [ass]I write and produce myself just as fastKeep my hair like this, got no time for Jheri curlsAttracting only women, got no time for little girlsCause girls look so good but their brain is not readyI don't knowI'd rather talk to a woman cause her mind is so steadySongtexteSo here we goI'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanaticI simply made use of what was upstairs in the atticI've listened to these MC's back when I was a kidBut I bust more shots than they ever didI mean this is not the best of KRS, it's just a sectionBut how many times must I point you in the right directionYou need protection when I'm on the micBecause my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipeYou're a king, I'm a teacherYou're a b-boy, I'm a scholarIf this was a class, well it would go right under dramaSee kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligentTalking big words on the mic but still irrelevantEspecially when you're not college materialWake up every morning to your Lucky Charms cerealDJ Scott La Rock has a college degreeBlastmaster KRS writes poetryI won't go deeper in the subject cause that gets me boredIt's a shame to know some MC's on the mic are fraudSaying styles like this to create a dissBut if you listen, who you dissing?I am a musicianRapping on the mic like this to me is fineCause if I really want to battle I will put out a nineYou can see that Scott La Rock and I are mentally bindedIn other words we're both Criminal MindedWe're not promoting violence, we're just having some funHe's Scott La Rock, I'm KRS-OneNever off-beat cause it don't make senseGrab the microphone, relaxed and not tenseYou waited, debated, and now you activatedA musical genius that could not be duplicatedSee I have the formula for rocking the houseIf you cannot rock a party do not open your mouthIt's that simple, no phony cosmetics for your pimpleTake another look because the gear is not wrinkledThe K, the R, the S, the O, the N, the ESay a rhyme for 87 not no 1983Well versed, to rehearse, in my rhymes I might curseOriginality is first but the suckers get worseAllow me to include I have a very stable moodPoetic education of a high altitudeI'm not an MC, so listen, call me poet or musicianA genius when it comes to making music with ambitionI'm cool, collected with the rhyme I directedDon't wanna be elected as the king of a recordJust respected by others as the man with the solutionAn artist of the 80's came and left his contributionOn wax, relax, there's 24 tracksAfter years of rocking parties now I picked up the knackBecause everything that flows from out my larynxTakes years of experience and bottles of Beck'sI cannot seem to recollect the time I didn't have sexIs it real or is it Memorex?I'm living in a city known as New York StateSucker MC's gotta wait while I translateI hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their headsPeople with ambition and straight up musiciansAlthough our lives have been so uprootedI haven't included, you can all get zootedSo take each letter of the KRS-OneMeans Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly EveryoneYou look at me and laugh, but this is your classIt's an all-out discussion of the suckers I be crushingSo now you are awakened to the music I be makingNever duplicated, and also highly cultivatedDon't get frustrated cause nothing has been tradedOnly activated, it came out very complicatedNot separated, from my DJYou see my voice is now fadedI'll see you folks around the wayCriminal minded Aus Songtexte Mania