KRS-One - A Friend lyrics

The beat was supposed to drop right there
The beat was supposed to drop right there
The beat was supposed to drop right there
Yeah, yeah, yeah, uh!

I send this one out to my right hand man
Or mens
Or womens, the whole crew, the real fam

We can count the dough or kick a flow
Or chill out watchin' videos
Or actin' really silly, yo, but really
Though all that can end
Whether at the bar with superstars
Or cruisin' in the trooper car
I really don't care who you are
All I really need is a friend

If we can't have trust
Then you can't hang with us
We respond to those who
Show respect with respect
We respond, we connect on the same deck
Same intellect, my man, never shifty
Thinks quickly
If you can't understand, we boys, we boys
We could stand on the corner
With a hat sellin' toys
It ain't about your Benz
I hope it ain't about mine
My man, I be dissin' in my freestyle rhyme
Gettin G's around the world, I can
Trust you with my girl, my man
We chillin' at the jam, what's the plan?
I'm not a yes man and none
Of my friends are yes men
Or women, I'm drivin'
I see my peeps yo get in
Where you fit in? True friends are quick to
Sit in the beginning of all trouble
And when your bankroll doubles
Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble
Still, I got my own space like Hubble

We can count the dough or kick a flow
Or chill out watchin' videos
Or actin' really silly, yo, but really
Though all that can end
Whether at the bar with superstars
Or cruisin' in the trooper car
I really don't care who you are
All I really need is a friend

Cause don't nobody care about us
All they do is doubt us
Until we blow the spot
Then they all wanna crowd us
And wanna shout us
But you my man from way back
I just gots to say that, actin' large
I don't play that but I can't say that
Where I play at isn't fast paced
A friend can acquire the
Taste to become two-faced
And that's a disgrace
There ain't nothing you can say to us
When the kid you grew up
With betrays your trust
When we used to ride the bus, we had trust
Now we cash checks and drive Lex
And can't show respect to one of us
Yo, the heads I hang with ain't tryin
To just get what they can get
Sit quickly backstabbin' the clique
I roll thick
But only some are friends really
Down to the end my right hand men and women
Mutual support, from the beginnin'
Been in, exactly what I've been in

We can count the dough or kick a flow
Or chill out watchin' videos
Or actin' really silly, yo, but really
Though all that can end
Whether at the bar with superstars
Or cruisin' in the trooper car
I really don't care who you are
All I really need is a friend

Back to back, we attack corporate America
Gettin' fees that amount to G's in every area
You my man, I ain't gotta drag you along
You pull your own weight
Yeah you definitely got it goin' on
I don't see nothin' wrong with a
Little bumpin' car system thumpin'
Between the crew, we always got somethin'
But if we had nothin', no frontin' whatever
We'd still be crew you and me
Me for you together
Word, fake people ain't worth a turd
They only want to be your friend
Because of what they overheard
I send this record to the well respected
Friends that I've collected
I hope I am what you expected

So check it, so check it

We can count the dough or kick a flow
Or chill out watchin' videos
Or actin' really silly, yo, but really
Though all that can end
Whether at the bar with superstars
Or cruisin' in the trooper car
I really don't care who you are
All I really need is a friend