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Naw, ain't playa-hatin' here.
Just can't help but wonder : where's Kris stand from the Creator's perspective?
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?
Luke 9:25 NIV
Lyrics from
several songs off of KRS-One's album, "Spiritual Minded."
What do you
think? Has KRS-One found the ONE?
Or another?
Better check it alongside Isaiah's flow on tha furilla-rilla.
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It is the glory of God to conceal a matter;
to search out a matter is the glory of kings.
Proverbs 25:2 NIV
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Artist: KRS-One Apologetic Response
Song: Trust
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002C'mon, gather round now - gather round now - look now
How many times did you pre-meditate
What you thought was your fate - 'cause you couldn't just wait
You had to have it the way that you thought in your mind
But in the end - everything came in time
But before the time - you was losin' your mind
You was racin' and rushin' and fallin' behind
But let me tell you 'bout God and the way that She works
I mean the way that He works - I mean the way that We work
You gotta trust in your Lord - everything is in accord
Don't rush or fuss - you gonna get yours
Close your eyes, your heart, your ears, your mind
To the ways and thoughts of mankind
And seek ye first the Kingdom of God
And things won't seem so hard
You gotta trust your Lord - uhh, uhh - tell 'em 'bout
Chorus:Trust and obey - trust when afraid
Trust when you paid - trust when betrayed
Trust when you fear - trust when you unclear
Trust when you here - trust when you near
Trust when you down - trust when you found
Trust when you clown - trust
C'mon, let's do it again - uh, huh
Let's raise it up - c'mon - look
After you live and you learn then you see
You will learn how to trust in your G-O-D
You will be so free - you won't see no me
You will only see the will of the almighty
You sick of what? Well, ya will - give it up
Stop thinkin' and begin to live it up
Every time you think it's one way it's not
Every time you wanna start you really stop
Trust in the inner - the outer is for the sinners
In fact this whole rap is for beginners
Those that have talked and walked upon the path
Know that they get what they want before they act
So why rush - if your respect is due
Whatever you don't have is protectin' you
Here's what you do have that be bringin' the drama
Ask and it shall be given - with a comma
Chorus
You trust in her - trust in him - trust in them - and then
Trust in men - trust in sin - trust in friends
You trust in her - trust in him - trust in them - and then
Trust in men - trust in sin - trust in friends
Uh huh, soundin' good - soundin' good - look - look
So when will you be it - when will you see it
That thoughts and things they manifest when you decree it
But God be lookin' out for you
Puttin' a stop to what you're about to do
In your life - and in your circumstances
Every time you speak you be takin' chances
Talkin' bout things that you really don't have to have
So when you get 'em - your life turns sad
Your life turns bad - now why would your God be allowin' that?
Trust in God - that's where the crown is at
It's not in what you get - it's what happens after that
So if you think your life is shrinkin'
It may be cause you keep thinkin'
Not that intellect is wrong
It's just the beginning - it might be time to move on
Chorus————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: Tears
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002"At midday today, some Americans attended memorial services for victims of Tuesday's acts of terrorism. Thousands gathered at Chicago's Daily Plaza. Hundreds more looked on from the windows of surrounding office buildings. Many waved flags, and traffic came to a complete standstill. On the rooftop of City Hall, which faces Daily Plaza, a police sharpshooter watched the crowd, even as he saluted the flag. After a minute of silence, church bells rang."
Ain't no need in all the tears - oh no, no - yeah yeah
Yeah, 'cause things will be better tomorrow
Chorus: repeat 2X sungNo need for tears - no need to cry
No matter what we face - we shall get by
When the problems you face are too much to bear
Know I'll be there
Hold that head up y'all - don't get fed up, y'all
C'mon - let's get up, y'all
Make that bed up y'all - life is a set-up, y'all
Sadness comes from a lack of knowin' - not knowin'
Where the one that you love is goin'
We all gonna reap what we all are sowin'
There is no death - just constant growin'
We can't stay here forever
We all gotta go to a place we believe is better
So why be sad - why be mad
Now you can see it ain't about the cheddar
It's all about the time that we spend together
Not the rhyme, or the crime, or the Gucci sweater
The house that's built on a rock can stand the weather
Faith can stand the weather
But is your house upon the rock
Or is it on sand and about to drop
Here is the question that you got to ask
Do I live for today or do I live for the past?
Think fast - but do not hurry
Life is a class and we should not worry
But tell me - how long you gonna ignore
Tell me how long you gonna ignore God's law?
How long can you really endure
Livin' like pimps - livin' like whores
The choice is yours - or really ours
Think about this while you lay the flowers
On the grave - uh - let's talk about how you behave - uh
Do you come out the neighb' or out the cave?
Better change your ways - we comin' up on some stranger days
Chorus
Uhh, uhh
Don't step where the danger lays or danger lies
Open them eyes up - better to rise up - wise up
Raise your minds up
Look to the left - look to the right
Pray in the day and the night
Be prepared for the fight - not scared of the fight
He's the way to truth and the light
J to the E to the S to the U to the S
You can remove the stress
Yes, we do need You here
Yes, we wanna be free from fear
Yes, we wanna start seein' clear
Havin' You here - not over there
Lookin' around - sayin' where - does anybody care?
Yeah, I'll be there
At the door - not at the war
At Matthew 5:44
"But I say unto you
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you
Do good to them that hate you
And pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you"
This goes for them terrorists too
But them publicans - done put themselves up above again
Lookin' for blood again - hate no love again
Got them soldiers runnin' in - with a gun again
With a ton of sin - in a holy war - how we gonna win?
I think it's time for KRS-One again
Chorus - repeat 2X
The time is now - you gotta make your choice
Which side are you on? Turn now to Matthew 5:46
"For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye?
Do not even the publicans the same?
And if ye salute your breddren only, what do ye more than others
Do not even the publicans so?
Be ye therefore perfect;
even as your FATHER which is in heaven, is perfect..." echoes————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: Good Bye
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002Yeah, yeah - let's switch the flow up a little
Word.. bring the love back - here we go
You ever lost somebody - a member of your party
Your daddy maybe mommy - for them there was no copy
Just know that we all asleep - pray to the Lord my soul will keep
Life is a dream no need to weep - God's gonna wake us up from sleep
Every night we die - we practice for death
Every time we sleep we say goodbye
But I still can't get over the fact
That my best friend's awake and not comin' back
So as the tears... (tears roll from my eyes)
Uh, uh - I never got a chance to say...
Goodbye, Trouble MC, Scott LaRock, Paul Sea, Doctor Rock
Mastadon, Trouble T-Roy, Aaliyah, Cowboy Sugar Shaft, Eazy-E... (got to say goodbye) Yeah... bring the love back, bring the love back
When you wake up then you'll know what was up
You won't live so corrupt - only love you'll take up
All the chasin' and rushin' - impatience and fussin'
The racin' for somethin' - the hatin' and frontin' - is makin' you nothin'
So - die before you die - so when you die you don't die
You got to die before you die so when you die you don't die
You got to die to all the world - all the guys and the girls
You got to die to lovin' money and them diamonds and pearls
So as the tears... (tears roll from my eyes)
I never got a chance to say to y'all...
Goodbye, Prince Messiah, Bigga B, Freaky Tah, B.I.G., Big Pun, Mercury, June Bug, Buffy, Tupac, Darryl C... (got to say goodbye)
Bring the love back - bring the love back - uhh, hip-hop
So remember when they die - they have only woke up
It's our wants and our needs that be chokin' us up
And I want and I need and I want and I need.
Yo, there was a time when hip-hop was on our mind
It wasn't about no crime - just reality rhymes
If you battled me fine - but in the end we reclined
with a bottle of wine - MC's the original kind but
Why did you stray...hip-hop
Why did you stray...hip-hop
Why did you stray...hip-hop
Why did you stray...bring the love back
Why did you stray...bring the love back
Why did you stray...Why did you stray...
Why did you stray...rise up y'all
Why did you stray...remember where you came from
Why did you stray...bring the love back
Why did you stray...————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: South Bronx 2002
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002This what you call hardcore - fat gospel - street gospel
all: South, South Bronx!
KRS: Yo, where my people at?
all: South, South Bronx!
KRS: Yo, where my heart is at?
all: South, South Bronx!
KRS: C'mon let's bring it back
all: South, South Bronx!
Raw rhymes for raw times
My albums are underground - but this blessing is all mine
And when it's tour time - we open more minds
You need to rethink who you think is the "Greatest of All Time"
I got this - I'm raw like Freddie Foxx is
Hardcore like The LOX is, Scott LaRock is where Tupac is
Where hip-hop is - Digital-ly Underground like Shock is
Oh yes - I know where the top is
But I'd rather rhyme about how crooked some of these cops is
My synopsis ain't pretty
I'd stay - off them plains and out the city if I were you
Do what you gotta do
But while you wave them flags - remember Amadou ... Diallo
Here's what we gotta do - follow
I'll put hip-hop in you if you're hollow
Those that already filled - still take swallows
Goin' over potholes with Tahoes
You don't think I know? Huh! I'm lookin' at you right now
You ain't dancin' in the club - you in your car, sittin' down
You in the crib - on the low
You got them headsets on the go
You just saw me at the show - oh you don't know?
It's the Temple of Hip-Hop - comin' with a whole different flow
Yo, where them hoes at? I don't know
But wherever God at - I'm-a go
I give 'em a hard rap and a flow
That's why when they call back for the show - with no video
We get up and go!
Chorus: repeat 2XKRS: Yo, where it started at?
all: South South, Bronx!
KRS: Yo, where my people at?
all: South South, Bronx!
KRS: Yo, where my heart is at?
all: South South, Bronx!
KRS: C'mon let's bring it back
all: South South, Bronx!
Peep it out while I tell ya like this
In every single 'hood in the world I'm called Kris
It's the truth for ya - it's the proof for ya
My Cristal passes more bars than lawyers
The underground sound - this is not easily found
You don't need no rings to be down
This is past the platinum and gold
We already had 'em - it's old
Here's the truth if it be told - gather 'round
Philosopher style is known to be wild
If you only holdin' them guns - who's holdin' your child?
You got to be thinkin' - you know that you shrinkin'
When the art of Navigation has been reduced to a Lincoln
Change the dial! I was free then and I'm free now
You free - runnin' to MTV? I don't see how!
You know the real from the fake - you know they stealin' they cake
You know it ain't about the art - it's all about what they make
You know the radio's late - you know they play what you hate
That's why you got that Kay Slay tape - tryin' to skate
You know the love of the cars and the rims
Tattooed arms and Timbs - are also called sins
You know you got to pay for these spins
You know the rap magazines be wack from beginning to the end
Bo!
ChorusI never was a king and I'm not the Prez
I'm a teacher like that reefer goin' straight to your head
I'm a preacher tryin' to bring my people back from the dead
I'm a leader tryin' to keep you all away from the feds
You my sister I'll be tryin' to get you out of the bed
I'm a philosopher sayin' what has got to be said
I don't fill you with lead - I bring that knowledge instead
Follow this dread - I'll take you from A to Zed
Who am I? Just a scholar called K-R-S
You can spend your money on others but they ain't blessed
You can spend your money drugs and still be stressed
Look around for conscious rappers - yo, there ain't none left
I'm holdin' it down - better yet - I'm holdin' up
Waitin' for some young buck to come and sip from the cup
And continue with the menu - puttin' new knowledge in you
I got a question and a lesson cause I know what you been through
But..
Chorus - no beat
KRS: Yo, where it started at?
all: South South, Bronx!
KRS: Yo, where my people at?
all: South South, Bronx!
KRS: Yo, where my heart is at?
all: South South, Bronx!
KRS: C'mon let's bring it back
all: South South, Bronx!
The South South Bronx, boyeee...————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: Lord, Live within My Heart
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002Lord, live within my heart.. Lord, don't you ever stop..
Fill me up with what I need.. just have to ask I shall receive..
Look, look!
Ba-bi-di-ba-bi-dang-a-dang-diggy
How many rappers can actually hang with me?
My style is that Kris-style - it's witty
In they style I have no more Faith like Biggie
I battle on many levels - I shatter so many devils
'Fore you challenge me you better know the essentials
It's the K to the R to the S to the uno
You know - if you don't know, your crew know
When you hear the thunderin' sound - you under the ground
You can tell by the way we jumpin' around
It's the teacher - breakin' it down
I'm an upright MC - these others they be crawlin' around - word
Lord live within my heart... Lord don't you ever stop...
Fill me up with what I need... just have to ask - I shall receive...
Yeah, yeah - word up - look - look!
You know when the teacher returns - just get ready to learn
Just get ready to earn, health, love
Awareness and money to burn - I'm not really concerned
How the Benz just turn 'round the corner
For our sons and daughters to yearn - stand firm
If you lookin' at these hooks you becomin' a mad worm
Danglin' from the pole of the fisher - the corporate fisher
The talent scout and no doubt ready to get ya!
Lord live within my heart... Lord don't you ever stop...
Fill me up with what I need... just have to ask - I shall receive...
Look - look - look - look!
I'm anything but regular - not even similar
I get rid of the sin in ya when I spit at ya - my new literature
Now who forever been with ya? The Teacher!
Who remembers the kid in ya? The Teacher!
I'm winnin' ya - or winnin' a convert when the rhyme splurt at the concert
Forget the times that hurt - if the mind's alert - let the mind work
Uh! Let the body divert
To get to the top of the mountain - you've got to climb dirt
So c'mon climb through - don't get stuck lookin' behind you
It'll blind you - however I'm here to remind you
Many of you lost - you've got to find you
You'll be found you simply by you finding you - c'mon!
Lord live within my heart.. Lord don't you ever stop...
Fill me up with what I need... just have to ask - I shall receive...————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: Take Your Tyme
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002Y'all don't know? Y'all don't know your body is a temple?
A temple to the living God? Don't get gassed y'all
All my sisters out there - here's the truth
You, a you've got to take...your...time...
Look, look!
You don't want no unsteady relationships - you want it tight
You don't want no man beggin' and always gonna get - am I right?
You don't want no man sleepin', cheatin', freakin', behind his wife
There's no such thing as make love - it's really make life
I don't care what nobody say; you sleep with a man - that's your husband
So make sure, before you lay down - you love him
And learn him - yes, it's still sacred to be a virgin
Relax, it's curiosity that always burns 'em in fact
Sex is like candy - be disciplined - no splurgin'
You don't want your stomach hurtin'
Girl, you gotta take...your...time...
Listen!
Cash is an issue with that he can never diss you
Even if he makes you cry - you bought your own tissue
Wit cha own case - wit cha own hand - wipe ya own face
And throw him out - no doubt - out of your own place
If your heart is broken - you can mend it
If you're independent - your womanhood - that's when you defend it
Just... uhh - just take...your...time... woo!
Look!
Take...your...time...
Don't come wit cha hand always out
If he buys you somethin', thank him - but that's not what a man is about
Real men are real friends - showin' their real commitment
He tells you he really loves you - a boy can't really admit it
If a man really wants you - that man really flaunts you
In public or private a real man really supports you
'Member what Guru taught you? Of course you "Royalty"
You dress how you like when a queen is what you ought to be
And ought to act like - and also ought to manifest
How you dress makes you constantly blessed - or constantly stressed
Take...your...time... Yo!
Take...your...time...
Yo, yo -
So while you burnin' off those calories - think about reality
Get a skill for the salary - a man for the family
Not a boy - that's a catastrophe - don't get mad at me
Instead of always clubbin' - visit museums and art galleries
Pick the single man admirin' the ancient sculpture
He's cultured - chances are he won't insult ya
Give him your number only after you know what he does
Ask him what it is - not what it was
You want the good life (good life)
You want the good life (good life)
You want the - you want the - you want the
C'mon, you gotta take...your...time...————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: Take It to God
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002KRS-One
Yeah, once again - word up urban inspirational
KRS-One, Professor Ecks, whuddup, Dan? Woo
Temple of Hip-Hop - let's do it
By the sound of the track - you know who is back
It's the teacher - philosopher of conscious rap
Rappers tired of me sayin' where hip-hop is at
Cause they know they unoriginal - copycats
Watch me bump this gospel rap - never wack
In fact, I tell you where the tracks is at
TV is wack - they wanna show us beatin' Iraq
When the question is - where is Chandra Levy at?
Professor EcksMurdered God and left for dead like hip-hop
And admit to Condit like conduct - to kill Ecks the dread
And Kris crucified the false prophet
John F. Kennedy to these MC's - I draw and cock it
Cock on cocky cops for the love of the art
Punish the part - partition
Pardon the pause - poison pens penetrate the mental
I walk with Kris so my body's a temple
Body instrumentals and body your squad in the body of a God
KRS-OneJust think - just think - what if Malcolm X returned
Or Dr. King returned - tell me what have we learned?
As we takin' our turn - tell me what have we earned
Or is the ice and the cars our only concern
Mo' money, mo' money - you be yellin' it out
And on TV can't you see you be sellin' us out
So in 2010 - look to 2002
Who you think they gonna respect - me or you?
Professor EcksBehold, the God in the form of the man
Walkin' off water and - flesh absorbs in the sand
Moor gets the land - divorcin' the clan - I'm off into sand
Off and I'm slayin' delicate arms from porcelain hands
Slaughtered the lambs - charge it to the game
Cats take hip-hop's name in vain
Disrespectin' the forefathers who came (uh-huh)
Goddess hurt 'em right now - like when Marvin was slain
KRS-OneThey don't want it - nope - they don't need it - nope
Just stay weeded and hope I don't read what you wrote
Best believe they ain't dope - they deceivin' these folks
With they meaningless quotes - I got my feet on they throat
What they speak is a joke - they really weak and they broke
Have a seat and take notes - on the streets I'm the Pope
MTV is they hope - they repeat what they wrote
I'm an MC that won't - let them tempt me with coke
Professor EcksNope. Flesh of my flesh - blessed by KRS
Used to love her, they (?) haven't made a date with death
Follow no man - enslave the Ecks - professin' the student
I vibe with the teacher obliged to drop (?) liver than heaters
Lyrics liable to eat us like the survivors of Jesus
Now the blind is the leaders - your styles is egregious
Gets now the brow beateth to underground emceeth
The game is overheated, over-weeded, and misunderstood
KRS-OneWord - just a ride in they boat - with a platinum rope
No doubt, they sellin' us out - what's happenin' loc?
Quit this rappin' I won't - cause MC'n is dope
If I can't do it for the love, then do it I won't
How many times we note when these rappers is dope
Satisfied - that's why I'm renewin' your hope
Broaden your scope - when cleaned out your mind
My rhyme is like a new bar of deodorant soap
Professor EcksIn this land of men, mice and mimes - I holds right for the laws
Live life like Christ - makin' bread from mics and applause
The snakes fight with Tyson like jaws for what's rightfully yours
I might (?) 'em all, tell me - is it life or it's war?
Sung:Goooyyyyiiyyyiyyyyod - Goooyyyiyyiyyyiiiod - Gooyyyyiyyiyyyod
My God - your God - our God - is God - is God
Change is gonna come - where you goin' to run - but to God?
To God - run to God - run to God
Run to God - and let Him in your heart
Change is gonna come - the change is gonna come
Make it your change - run to God - in your heart
Let God in your heart - He will fill the part
Goooyyyyiiyyyiyyyyod - in youuuuuuur heart
Take it to God - take it to God - God
Take it to my God - your God - take it to God
Take it to Goooyyyyiiyyyiyyyyod - take it to Goooyyyyiiyyyiyyyyod
Take it to Goooyyyyiiyyyiyyyyod - take it to God
Just take it to God - run and - take it God
Take it to Go-awd————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: Never Give Up
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002Gather 'round - gather 'round- ha
Metaphysical style - spiritual style - the Original style - ha -
Yes.. let's do it
ChorusYou can never give up - you should never give up
You can never give up - we can never give up
You can never give up - you can never give up
You should never give up - we can never give up
You can never give up
Yeah, yeah
Y'all don't really know about the KRS rap
Y'all don't really about why we stay trapped
Y'all don't really know hip-hop ain't rap
But let me tell you how we can get it all back
First realize givin' up is wack
Say to yourself - I can never be wack
Then realize that we must go back
And the reason you can't seem to get on track
Is you - keep - buying - hoes - simple and plain
You - keep - buying - hoes - all y'all know my name
And how I get down and move around
I've already been to the proving ground
In conscious rap - who rule the sound
The question is are you down?
Chorus
Look - KRS-One - I've learned already
Everything they doin' is temporary
No matter how big you live
You still the creation of a music executive
And when you get old no matter what you did
They throw you away and they pimp your kid
Yeah kids - on the TV wilin'
You know why we got racial profilin'?
'Cause you - keep - buying - hoes - simple and plain
You - keep - buying - hoes - all y'all know my name
So there in the future we'll look back
And then we will see we were under attack
But it'll be too late - the loss'll be too great
You'll see - just wait!
Chorus
C'mon, c'mon - yeah, c'mon
You see how they shuttin' down KRS-One
Cause I'm not sexy, thuggin' or dumb
Ask yourself -
Why they only promotin' criminal activity and nothin' else?
On the videos and on the radio
Teachin' our kids which way to go
And the way that they tell our kids to go
If you listen - heads right straight to prison
While you - keep - buying - hoes - simple and plain
You - keep - buying - hoes - y'all better peep the game
You got to release that temptation
Get a brand new affirmation
Your life is what you make 'em
Peace, salaam alaikum
Chorus————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
You ready to go? I'm ready to go
Song: Know Thy Self
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002
What about y'all - y'all ready to go? (yeah - aight - yeah) I'm ready to go
Look...
Know thy self and thou shalt know
The universe and God (whoa-ohh-ohh) repeat 3X
God is the mother, the father, the friend
Know ye not that ye must be born again?
What does it mean to be in the world but not of it
It means you want the cars the cash the jewels the house but you don't love it
It means to taxes regulation state law you live above it
It means you a free hip-hopper - you ain't nobody's puppet
You don't see no money on me - you see it up in the cupboard
You see me up in Toys'R'Us - with my seeds 'cause they love it
You see insurance flash out - if my kids pass out
You see seven acres of land where we can all spaz out
To all my fathers that fathered - hold your head up for starters
Teach your toddlers not to be thieves and robbers
This that other kind of rap that leads to true hip-hop
There's other kinds of raps - but they lead you to get shot
The choice is yours - you gettin' older now
You got a kid comin' - how you gonna hold it down?
It's one thing to be iced out and rocked up
What's the point if you're gettin' locked up?
Know thy self and thou shalt know
The universe and God (whoa-ohh-ohh) repeat 3X
God is the mother, the father, the friend
Know ye not that ye must be born again?It's really time we separate the young men from the big men
The young girls from the women - whatever the title that fit them
My style designed to open a child's mind when I spit them
I only got a little bit of time to really rhyme and uplift them
You see them brothers talkin' about that crime? Forgive them
It won't be long before they words manifest and they live them
Sometimes you gotta go back to the beginnin' to learn
After fifteen years I'm just beginnin' to burn
To all my true hip-hoppers that pay bills and live proper
Never allow a negative thought to stop ya
Correct ya posture - stand upright not uptight
Don't be scared of the light - just prepare for the fight
We say "Criminal Minded"- 'cause our thoughts are illegal
We represent the very thinkin' of inner-city people
Real people - people that take care of they self
They need health, love, awareness and wealth
Not to mention knowledge of God
Not college - the job then dead - if you agree nod your head
It's one thing to be iced out and rocked up
But what's the point if you're gettin' locked up?
Know thy self and thou shalt know
The universe and God (whoa-ohh-ohh) repeat 3X
God is the mother, the father, the friend
Know ye not that ye must be born again?C'mon, c'mon yo - tonight is it
We gonna steal away together through these rhymes I spit
When the student is ready - the teacher shall appear
So I'm here - but are you really ready to face your fears?
Mo' money, mo' money - is that your credo?
You've been livin' in a dream world, Neo - power to the people!
Nobody's equal - everybody's diversed and different
My lyric'll never cheat you - my verse is gifted
So manifest what you believe is God almighty
It could be Allah, Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Aphrodite
It could be Nefertiti - come hear me and never fear me
It's like at some point in your life you gonna have to hear me
I represent them teachers, preachers - comin' through your speaker
Manifestin' another lesson to them true believers
Instead of pickin' up our women ready to mistreat 'em
You better get yourself a wife and kid and never leave 'em
You better teach 'em - you better read 'em - you better feed 'em
The system will defeat 'em - if you don't teach 'em the cops'll beat 'em
The style that I be kickin' quick is "Edutainment"
Hip-Hop culture needed a teacher quick, so I became it
Instead of rhymin' about my history and what I been through
I'd rather rhyme about awakening the God within you
Yo, it's one thing to be iced out and rocked up
But what's the point if you're gettin' locked up?
Know thy self and thou shalt know
The universe and God (whoa-ohh-ohh) repeat 3X
God is the mother, the father, the friend
Know ye not that ye must be born again?
Yeah.. yeah.. FRESH - for two-thousand and two
My sisters and BROTHERS - my sisters and BROTHERS.. repeats and fade————————————————————————————————
Artist: KRS-One
Song: Ain't Ready
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002
Uhh! They don't wanna battle
They ain't ready for the battle - uh-uh - uh-uh (Temple of Hip-Hop)
Listen, listen, listen
Chorus: repeat 2X
Your spirit AIN'T READY
Your church AIN'T READY
Your bishop AIN'T READY
Your deacons AIN'T READY
Your choir AIN'T READY
Your ushers AIN'T READY
At the Temple of Hip-Hop
WE TEACH MANY!
Look! To all my people hurtin' - all my people searchin'
What we know for sure - God is always workin'
Workin' while you flirtin' - workin' while you jerkin'
Workin' while the world is turnin' and these cities burnin'
God is always workin - workin while you learnin'
Workin' while you ignorant and when you're not concernin'
Christ consciousness - get that - got that
Spit that - rock that - hip that - hop that
You sniff that? Stop that - I give back and got back
Greedy? I'm not that - you needy for that shock rap
Slangin' on the block rap - duckin' where the cops at
I don't know that - but Jesus done copped that
Not that man on the cross - it ain't like that
You must act like the son of God - that's where the light's at
Stop readin' only and start bein' - show me
Like the resurrection I'll be back - they can't hold me
Chorus
One thing's for sure and believe it hurt
It's when the pastor ain't sure and deceives the church
They don't know God's law and can't see God at work
So when they see hip-hop they push it to the back of the church
Like fig trees or figures they don't bear fruit
They gospel artists still tryin' to chase that loot
Hear the truth now - I come to enhance the light
They women of God singin' while they pants is tight?
They not hot! Really they regular
They clothes - they flows - all that - secular
What's the difference? I could stay in the world and wild
If these church girls wear more makeup than Destiny's Child
Keep it real, Christian - some of y'all liftin' - ain't likin'
But this is the difference between a Christian and a Christ-ian
Stop readin' only and start bein' - show me
Like the resurrection I'll be back - they can't hold me
Llisten, listen, listen
Chorus
Look! Spiritual minded - you must find it
Find your spirit and go deep inside it
This goes out to the Christ-ians listenin'
This is the flow that gospel's missin' - it's
Urban inspirational rap
We got our own section in the record stores - in our own rack
We respect tradition from the start
But we now know the true word of God is written in our heart
We gotta say somethin' to the streets kid!
All these churches surroundin' - the devil still ain't defeat it?
They the type to get down - I'm the type to get up
From "Criminal" to "Spiritual Minded"- now raise your head up
Let me start - these rappers ain't got God in they heart
All they want is quick money and a movie part
Let me begin - what, where, why or when
What's the use of double platinum if you're livin' in sin
Hear the truth - how long you think you gonna last
Rockin the mic - without havin' to go back to class?
Now you're forced to listen to the teacher out-rap them
Yes there's life after platinum————————————————————————————————
You think this is easy right? (Yeah!)
Artist: KRS-One
Song: The Conscious Rapper
Album: Spiritual Minded
Original Release Date: January 22, 2002
You think this is easy right? (That's easy!)
You think you got what it takes? (Yeah that's easy!)
Huh, we gon' see... we gon' see right now (Now what?)
Look...
So you wanna be a conscious rapper
Can you handle the press and they negative chatter
Can you eat cold platters and still spit data
Watchin' others spit lies and they pockets get fatter
Can you climb up the ladder and reach the top?
But it still doesn't matter - 'cause you ain't pop
Can you rock for the love of the art
Can you drop hit after hit after hit and still don't chart?
Can you really stay loyal to God
When your life is full of strife - plus it always seems so hard
Can you handle the criticism
People holdin' you up to higher standards - but they don't live 'em?
Can you hear these kiddy flows and laugh at it
But when you spit they callin' you arrogant?
You better think about that before you rock to this
Sometimes it's easier to pop your Cris' - let's do it!
Chorus: sung
Think you can do what I do
Think you can step in my shoes
You have no clue what I go through
You never felt my pain
When they attack my name
All because I have spoken the truth
To be a conscious rapper ain't a mystery
You gotta laugh when they call you contradictory
The whole industry - you gotta push and pull it
To really get with me - you gotta dodge they bullets
Blaow, blaow, blaow - every day and every way
You critics got somethin' to say
At the same time - you gotta uphold Christ
Uphold life - while others flash cars and ice
It could break you down - take you down - make you frown
It could actually shake your ground
But if you love who you are - and believe in that
Best believe you will be where the Teacher's at
And where's that? In fact - in cold or heat
Yes, I declare victory over the streets
Overstand over these beats - over the so-called elite
Over the strong - over the weak
I know how to speak - and most of all I know how to eat
I know I want humble and meek
So you better think about that before you rock to this
Sometimes it's easier to pop your Cris' - uhh
Chorus
Look!
So you thinkin' about bein' a conscious MC
Well you gotta love God and you got to live free
You got to see the life that others can't see
You got to be the person that others can't be
You can't be a S-L-A-V-E
If you sayin' to yourself - "This may be me"
Then you know goin' in that you work against sin
Your very skills will kill the demons within
So don't expect respect from slaves and hoes
Nor the slavemaster's video shows
Nor the rap mags - you know how it go
Especially black mags - you know they don't know
Just go to the crowd that you know will need you
'Cause nothing compares to the respect of the people
That's what you look for - that's what you work with
'Cause anything else is truly worthless
You better think about that before you rock to this
Sometimes it's easier to just pop your Cris'
You better think about that - 'fore you rock to this
Sometimes it's easier to just pop your Cris' - uhh
Chorus - repeat 2X Apologetic Response————————————————————————————————
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Local Lips and Long-Distance Hearts
Artist: Isaiah
Song: Track 29:13-14
Album: The Bible (NKJV Version)
Original Release Date: ca. 712 B.C.Therefore the LORD said:
"Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths
And honor Me with their lips,
But have removed their hearts far from Me,
And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,
Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work
Among this people,
A marvelous work and a wonder,
For the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
And the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden."
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