KRS-One - 2nd Quarter - Free Throws lyrics

Anybody in here right now with
Tape decks turn em on
And put em on record, I'll give you a second
I want to add authenticity to your tape
So when it's sold out in the street
You all can know this was a real party

These are poems circulating
Throughout the nation
Everybody's bad and everybody's tough
But how many people are intelligent enough
To open up their eyes and
See through the lies
Discipline themselves, yourself to stay alive
Not many that's why the universe sent me
Today on this stage with this to to say
The rich will get richer and
The poor will get poorer
And in the final hour many
Heads will lose power
What does the rich versus
The poor really mean?
Psychologically it means you got
To pick your team
When someone says the rich gets richer
Visualize wealth and put yourselves
In the picture the rich get richer
Cause they work towards rich
The poor get poorer
Cause their minds can't switch
From the ghetto let go, it's not a novelty
You could love your neighborhood
Without loving poverty
Follow me, every mother, father, son
Daughter
There's no reason to fear the New World Order
We must order the whole new world to pay us
The New World Order and the old state chaos
The Big Brother watching over you
Is a lie you see
Hip-Hop could build it's own secret society
But first you and I got to unify
Stop the negativity and
Control our creativity
The rich is getting richer
So why we ain't richer?
Could it be we still thinking like niggas?
Educate yourselves
Make your world view bigger
Visualize wealth and put yourselves
In the picture!