KRS-One - For Example lyrics
[KRS-One - For Example lyrics]
Here's another example of the KRS-One (BO)
Here's another example of the KRS-One (BO)
They wish to battle BDP but they cannot
They must be on the jock of WHO?
(DJ Scott LaRock)
Yeah, one-two, what? What?
Grab any tape that you think is hard
Put it in your tape deck and press record
Get this - what's a real hip-hop emcee?
Is it MTV? Is it BET?
Is it five M-IC's so the people can see?
I mean, how you think you free when
You act like property? Tell me
How can you judge an MC when he's rockin
I mean, rockin it live, not pickin his cotton
I mean, adjustin his clothes I mean
How do you know before you come to the show
And you're not gettin cheated
That you're not gettin heated
That you ain't come to the club
Thinkin, "Uh uh - I must have been weeded!"
You got to be a educated consumer
Spend your money on MC's cause
These rappers'll do ya
All they want is your cash, ass, glass
Gas and a flick
When you ask for that autograph
They ass dash quick beware of the rapper
He talks like it don't matter
He pulls his gat while we BUST OFF the gatler
He's more of an actor, someone, into theater
Not an upright MC with
Styles who speaks clearer!
MC's have no time for the bar
Unless we politickin a tape to some drunk A&R
We grab the mic and say who we are, KRS
And start takin it to the chest of the best
This is not a test or a demo
This is when you let go of the limo
Like many can't do
They may wanna amp you and chant new
Record sellin
But movin the crowd is somethin
That they can't do!
C'mon!
You got to be mistaken, I am not your boy
You fake what you creatin
Playin wit'cha toys
G'wan with all that bullshit
Bout you bringin noise
Time for somethin more than PO-PO-POIPOI
All of hip-hop ain't seventeen
Some of us still go
Back to "Microphone Fiend"
Back when it was just MC's and DJ's
No video that come on and just replay
Uhhh uh huh, uh huh uh huh
We can never stop, forever we rock
Take a listen the t'cha is back
Cause rap's whack when I'm missin
Me, I would never want the future to believe
That when they trust to look back on
Us there was no dope MC's there was
All these rappers grabbin more and more money
And now that I'm A&R they
Look more and more funny
They rap for platinum plaques without buildin
A cultural strategy worthy of our children!
Here's another example of the KRS-One (BO)
They wish to battle BDP but they cannot
They must be on the jock of WHO?
(DJ Scott LaRock)
Yeah, one-two, what? What?
Grab any tape that you think is hard
Put it in your tape deck and press record
Get this - what's a real hip-hop emcee?
Is it MTV? Is it BET?
Is it five M-IC's so the people can see?
I mean, how you think you free when
You act like property? Tell me
How can you judge an MC when he's rockin
I mean, rockin it live, not pickin his cotton
I mean, adjustin his clothes I mean
How do you know before you come to the show
And you're not gettin cheated
That you're not gettin heated
That you ain't come to the club
Thinkin, "Uh uh - I must have been weeded!"
You got to be a educated consumer
Spend your money on MC's cause
These rappers'll do ya
All they want is your cash, ass, glass
Gas and a flick
When you ask for that autograph
They ass dash quick beware of the rapper
He talks like it don't matter
He pulls his gat while we BUST OFF the gatler
He's more of an actor, someone, into theater
Not an upright MC with
Styles who speaks clearer!
MC's have no time for the bar
Unless we politickin a tape to some drunk A&R
We grab the mic and say who we are, KRS
And start takin it to the chest of the best
This is not a test or a demo
This is when you let go of the limo
Like many can't do
They may wanna amp you and chant new
Record sellin
But movin the crowd is somethin
That they can't do!
C'mon!
You got to be mistaken, I am not your boy
You fake what you creatin
Playin wit'cha toys
G'wan with all that bullshit
Bout you bringin noise
Time for somethin more than PO-PO-POIPOI
All of hip-hop ain't seventeen
Some of us still go
Back to "Microphone Fiend"
Back when it was just MC's and DJ's
No video that come on and just replay
Uhhh uh huh, uh huh uh huh
We can never stop, forever we rock
Take a listen the t'cha is back
Cause rap's whack when I'm missin
Me, I would never want the future to believe
That when they trust to look back on
Us there was no dope MC's there was
All these rappers grabbin more and more money
And now that I'm A&R they
Look more and more funny
They rap for platinum plaques without buildin
A cultural strategy worthy of our children!