KRS-One - Problemz lyrics
[KRS-One - Problemz lyrics]
Yeah man, yo Marla what's up
Yeah, Inebriated Beats, big up Boston
The whole Boston
EdoG what's up man? I got you
We gon' bounce this now
Can I start? Can I start? Here we go
I'm the newest and the truest MC on the mic
I wrote over 500 songs, pick what you like
It ain't easy bein me, by day or night
But it's easy bein free to
Recite what you like
Hip-Hop is my inalienable right
When it comes to emceein KRS
Is a whole different type
Now go get it right, did I flow spit it tight
In a fight I was the type to go get a pipe
BINK! BINK! BINK! BINK! Movin 'em back
BINK! That's the sound of an aluminum bat
But it seems they new to these facts
Which means they new to the tracks
Which means they do hold us back
Too new to know all that
But still runnin they trap do the math
Radio gets a 20 record a week stream
But only three are ever seen
What happens to the other 17?
It's a PROBLEM pROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today! We gotta solve it
Too many players and not enough crime
When they finally wake up they
Woulda ran out of time
They can't see today how they effect tomorrow
Too afraid to follow
Cause they trust is hollow
Because according to the laws
They'll harp some sorrow
Yo, "Victory Over the Streets"
- that's our motto
But if people ain't got no vision
That's a PROBLEM problem in hip-hop today!
We gotta solve it
People say, "Kris - why you teach so much?
Why you preach so much? Why
You speak and such?
Why you so bent on reachin each of us?"
I reply - because you eatin with us
In the future our children will
Be meetin with us have a seat then with us
And start speakin with us
They'll be critiquin us to be
Sure they believe in us
We don't need a PROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today! We gotta fix it
We live non-toxic, we teach that hip-hop is
The transformation of all
Subjects and objects retrain your optics
To reinterpret the topics
We gotta stop treatin hip-hop like a product
And more of a strategy I got graphs, charts
Sacred textbooks, these cats can't battle me
But they try, and why? Cause that's a PROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today! We gotta fix that
These cats need history to get with me
But hip-hop's history's a mystery
So how they gonna find out, trial and error
We can make one the example
For all to get better
Inform, KRS is not the norm
I go from hot to warm to cold to hot
But hip-hop's history many forgot
And that's a PROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today!
We gotta solve that
Problem problem in hip-hop today!
We gotta fix that
Yeah, Inebriated Beats, big up Boston
The whole Boston
EdoG what's up man? I got you
We gon' bounce this now
Can I start? Can I start? Here we go
I'm the newest and the truest MC on the mic
I wrote over 500 songs, pick what you like
It ain't easy bein me, by day or night
But it's easy bein free to
Recite what you like
Hip-Hop is my inalienable right
When it comes to emceein KRS
Is a whole different type
Now go get it right, did I flow spit it tight
In a fight I was the type to go get a pipe
BINK! BINK! BINK! BINK! Movin 'em back
BINK! That's the sound of an aluminum bat
But it seems they new to these facts
Which means they new to the tracks
Which means they do hold us back
Too new to know all that
But still runnin they trap do the math
Radio gets a 20 record a week stream
But only three are ever seen
What happens to the other 17?
It's a PROBLEM pROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today! We gotta solve it
Too many players and not enough crime
When they finally wake up they
Woulda ran out of time
They can't see today how they effect tomorrow
Too afraid to follow
Cause they trust is hollow
Because according to the laws
They'll harp some sorrow
Yo, "Victory Over the Streets"
- that's our motto
But if people ain't got no vision
That's a PROBLEM problem in hip-hop today!
We gotta solve it
People say, "Kris - why you teach so much?
Why you preach so much? Why
You speak and such?
Why you so bent on reachin each of us?"
I reply - because you eatin with us
In the future our children will
Be meetin with us have a seat then with us
And start speakin with us
They'll be critiquin us to be
Sure they believe in us
We don't need a PROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today! We gotta fix it
We live non-toxic, we teach that hip-hop is
The transformation of all
Subjects and objects retrain your optics
To reinterpret the topics
We gotta stop treatin hip-hop like a product
And more of a strategy I got graphs, charts
Sacred textbooks, these cats can't battle me
But they try, and why? Cause that's a PROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today! We gotta fix that
These cats need history to get with me
But hip-hop's history's a mystery
So how they gonna find out, trial and error
We can make one the example
For all to get better
Inform, KRS is not the norm
I go from hot to warm to cold to hot
But hip-hop's history many forgot
And that's a PROBLEM
Problem in hip-hop today!
We gotta solve that
Problem problem in hip-hop today!
We gotta fix that