[Chorus: KRS-One]
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Well are you ready for this? (We ready for this)
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Are you ready for this? (We ready for this!)
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Well we just can't miss (just can't miss)
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Well we just can't miss (drop the beat like this)
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Well are you ready for this? (We ready for this)
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Are you ready for this? (We ready for this!)
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Well we just can't miss (just can't miss)
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Well we just can't miss
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[KRS-One]
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Well when I speak this
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I'ma be like this, I'ma be like Kris
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I'ma teacher, I'ma preacher, I'ma free my kids
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I'ma grow dem and show dem what a leader is
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I'ma teach dem the laws of receive and give
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Knowledge Reigns Supreme, believe and live
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You done heard the hype, COME to where the talent is
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"I'm Still #1," yup you heard right
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People say, "KRS-One you shine bright!"
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Others say, "Yo - you rhyme tight"
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When you find me, you find light, and that's alright
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I don't know about pimpin, sellin women like retail
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Or turning coke into crack for resale
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But I do know if we fail
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In 2020 our children by the million gonna be jailed
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We got the victory over the streets
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God willin we chillin, we know we gon' eat
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I'm a whole different kind of MC, hoes don't like
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not tempt me but the ladies treat me oh so gently
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Universities sendin me stretch Bentleys
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My seminars and lectures, are rarely never empty
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We teach students plenty, honorary degrees
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Gold and platinum plaques I got many, ask Kenny
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People get shocked when I walk into Denny's
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Or the corner Kwik-Stop, they say, "That's Hip-Hop
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right there," and yeah it's really quite clear
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2004 might be the right year
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for mental and spiritual repair
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The solution is in the resolution you just declared
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[Chorus]
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[KRS-One]
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When I speak like this
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Knowledge Reigns Supreme, hip-hop philosopher
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All in the street well I'm very popular
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All through the hood I make all the stops and I
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avoid the cops and them random shots well I
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love hip-hop and I, live hip-hop so I
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spit that shit to get you off your block cause I
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can't understand and I, wish I could see dem
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cats that talk bout they love the hood and they
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never bring the hood anything that's good, and they
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rap for the money tree, chasin a company
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But I think you can now see, rap is fun to me
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I got a ministry, a class, a staff that's under me
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KRS in pop rap? Nah, it ain't ought to be
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It'll never happen like, you eatin pork with me
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Amateurs hawkin me, DON'T EVEN talk to me
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My house is in Atlanta but I still got New York in me
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Walk with me, most rappers are short to me
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I'm like Chamberlain, dominatin the sport you see
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I toss MC's off of me
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When you hear KRS you say that's how it ought to be
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[Chorus]
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[KRS-One]
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I drop heat like this!
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Are You Ready For This?
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| KRS-One |
