KRS-One - Criminal Minded lyrics

Boogie Down Productions will always get paid
We'll 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 suckaz don't like me 'cause
You're all about nothin'

However, I'm really fascinatin' to the letter


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 MC's 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 mornin' 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 MC's
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 put out a nine
You can see that Scott LaRock
And I are mentally binded
In other words we're both criminal minded

We're not promoting 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 for eighty-seven 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 MC, 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 everythin' that flows from
Out my larynx takes 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 MC's 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
You see my voice is now faded
I'll see you folks around the way
Criminal minded
Criminal minded, criminal minded
Criminal minded