[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
[00:11.08]
[00:12.00]I think very deeply
[00:13.33]
[00:14.47]I think very deeply
[00:15.71]
[00:17.76]I think  I think  I think very deeply
[00:21.08]
[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
[00:42.08]
[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
[00:47.04]
[00:47.70]Everyone saw me on the last album cover
[00:49.49]
[00:50.33]Holding a pistol  something far from a lover
[00:52.69]Beside my brother S-C-O-T-T
[00:54.94]
[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
[01:20.38]
[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
[01:35.66]
[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
[02:23.98]
[02:24.61]Rap is like a set-up  a lot of games
[02:27.06]
[02:27.66]A lot of suckas with colorful names
[02:29.40]I'm so-and-so  I'm this  I'm that
[02:31.44]
[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
[03:12.43]
[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
[04:11.26]
[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
[04:21.36]
[04:21.90]Teachers teach and do the world good
[04:24.45]Kings just rule and most were never understood
[04:26.42]
[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