Criminal Minded

Boogie Down Productions will always get paid
 Will take the wackest song and make it better
 Remember to let us into your skin
 'Cause then you'll begin – to master
 Rhymin', rhymin', rhymin'
 Criminal minded, you've been blinded
 Lookin' for a style like mine, you can't find it
 They are the audience, I am the lyricist
 Sometimes the suckas on the side gotta hear this
 Page, a rage, and I'm not in a cage
 Free as a bird to fly up out on stage
 Ain't here for no frontin' just to say a little somethin'
 Ya suckas don't like me 'cause you're all about nothin'
 However, I'm really fascinatin' to the latter
 My all-around performance gets better and better
 My English grammar comes down like a hammer
 You need a style, I need to pull your file
 I don't beg favors, you're kissin' other people's –
 I write and produce myself just as fast
 Keep my hair like this, got no time for Jheri curls
 Attractin' only women, got no time for little girls
 'Cause girls look so good
 But their brain is not ready, I don't know
 I'd rather talk to a woman
 'Cause her mind is so steady, so here we go
 I'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanatic
 I simply made use of what was upstairs in the attic
 I've listened to these emcees back when I was a kid
 But I bust more shots than they ever did
 I mean this is not the best of KRS, it's just a section
 But how many times must I point you in the right direction
 You need protection, when I'm on the mic
 Because my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipe
 You're a king, I'm a teacher, you're a b-boy, I'm a scholar
 If this was a class, well it would go right under drama
 See kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent
 Talkin' big words on the mic but still irrelevant
 Especially when you're not, college material
 Wake up every morning to your Lucky Charms cereal
 DJ Scott LaRock has a college degree
 Blastmaster KRS writes poetry
 I won't go deeper in the subject 'cause that gets me bored
 It's a shame to know some emcees on the mic are fraud
 Sayin' styles like this, to create a diss
 But if you listen, who you dissin'?
 See I am a musician
 Rappin' on the mic like this to me is fine
 'Cause if I really want to battle I will pull out a 9
 You can see that Scott LaRock and I are mentally binded
 In other words we're both Criminal Minded
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 We're not promotin' violence, we're just havin' some fun
 He's Scott LaRock, I'm KRS-One
 Never off-beat 'cause it don't make sense
 Grab the microphone, relaxed and not tense
 You waited, debated, and now you activated
 A musical genius that could not be duplicated
 See I have the formula for rockin' the house
 If you cannot rock a party, do not open your mouth!
 It's that simple, no phony cosmetics to your pimple
 Take another look because the gear is not wrinkled
 The K, the R, the S, the O, the N, the E
 Sayin' rhyme from '87 not from 1983
 Well versed, to rehearse, and my rhymes are my curse
 Originality come first but the suckers get worse
 Allow me to include I have a very stable mood
 Poetic education of a high altitude
 I'm not an emcee, so listen, call me poet or musician
 A genius when it comes to makin' music with ambition
 I'm cool, collected with the rhyme I directed
 Don't wanna be elected as the king of a record
 Just respected by others as the man with the solution
 An artist of the 80's came and left his contribution
 On wax, relax, there's 24 tracks
 After years of rockin' parties now I picked up the knack
 Because everything that flows from out my larynx
 Take years of experience and bottles of Beck's
 I cannot seem to recollect the time I didn't have sex
 Is it real? Or is it Memorex?
 I'm livin' in a city known as New York State
 Sucka emcees gotta wait while I translate
 I hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their heads
 People with ambition and straight up musicians
 Although our lives have been so uprooted
 I have it included, you all get zooted
 So take each letter of the KRS-One
 Means Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone
 You look at me and laugh, but this is your class
 It's an all-out discussion of the suckas I be crushin'
 So now you are awakened to the music I be makin'
 Never duplicated, and also highly cultivated
 Don't get frustrated 'cause nothin' has been traded
 Only activated, it came out very complicated
 Not separated, from my DJ
 Ya see my voice is now faded
 I'll see you folks around the way
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