KRS-One《Hiphop Knowledge》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:01.11]KRS One [00:01.38]You know life is funny [00:04.44]If you don't repeat the actions of your own success you won't be successful [00:09.42]You gotta know your own formula your own ingredients What made you YOU [00:15.96]1987 I was at the Latin Quarters [00:18.00]Listenin to Afrika Bambaata give the order [00:19.77]The call of the order was to avoid the slaughter [00:21.69]He said Record companies ain't got nuttin for ya [00:23.85]Without a lawyer he taught The Infinity Lessons [00:25.89]In how hip hop could be a many a blessing [00:27.84]And that was great so in 1988there was no debate we had to end the hate Afrika [00:31.71]The name of the game was Stop the Violence and unity knowledge and self reliance [00:35.61]We started talkin bout Martin and Malcolm [00:37.83]Had these ghetto kids goin Huh what about him [00:39.99]1989 Professor Griff speaks his mind but his freedom of speech is declined [00:44.04]1990 came with the West coast East coast West coast who is the best coast 1990 [00:47.82]Lookin back now of COURSE it was bogus The whole argument was where we lost focus [00:51.69]We got hopeless not with the lyrics and music but with hip hop and how we used it [00:55.74]Or abused it you know how the crew getYou like it cause you choose it [01:00.51]1991 we opened our eyes with Human Education Against Lies we tried to talk about the state of humanity 1991 [01:11.28]Remember that Nobody wanted conscious rap [01:13.86]It was like where these ballers atWhere can they call us at All was wack [01:16.95]Hip Hop culture was fallin flat and that was that [01:19.35]So in 1992 I found my crew They said Yo Kris what you wanna do [01:31.11]So I did it don't stop get it get it get it All of a sudden these critics they wanna spit it [01:35.43]Kay Are Ess One is con tra dic to ryJust cause I wouldn't let these rappers get with me [01:43.02]But I'm makin these ends and I got my friends [01:45.09]And I really don't wanna have to sit in the pen So I go back to the philosopher [01:49.80]1993 hip hop is uhh wack Go back check the facts [01:53.76]1994 Return of the Boom BapIt wasn't all about the loot It was all about Harry Allen Rhythm Cultural Institute 1 [01:58.92]Blowin up 1995 Conscious rap is still alive [02:02.94]But nobody wanna play it nobody wanna say it Nobody okayed it they'd all rather hate it [02:07.68]1996 it really don't stop We put together somethin called the Temple of Hip Hop [02:11.07]Not just DJin breakin graf and lyrics But how hip hop affects the spirit [02:14.97]Step Into a World that's what I did [02:17.10]1997 I was raisin my kid or kids but I had to go 1997 [02:20.73]Cause New York DJ's changed the flows to clothes and h*es but that wasn't me [02:24.75]I'll be d**ned if I dance for the MTV [02:26.73]So in 1998 I began to debate Should I go now or should I really wait [02:30.96]'99 I moved to L A you see and took a gig with the WB [02:34.59]Started studyin philosophy full time To have a full heart full body full mind [02:38.85]But you know what the problem is or was [02:41.16]DJ's don't raise our kids cuz they so caught up in the cash and jewels DJ [02:44.88]How they gonna really see a hip hop schoolHow they gonna really see a hip hop temple [02:48.84]They don't even wanna play my instrumentals but big up Dr Dre Snoop Xzibit [02:52.80]Especially Xzibit he was there in a minute [02:54.84]Mic Conception all of them saidYo you need help I should call them [02:58.68]When I was in L A I held the crown Bloods Crips they held me down [03:02.46]I could never forget Mad Lion killer pride with the gat in the lap in the low ride [03:06.18]Oh I can't forget Icy Ice Lucky Lou Julio G that was the crew Davey D Ingrid David Connor [03:12.57]The list goes on and on let me tell ya FredWreck and my man Protest Much respect no less [03:18.84]To my spiritual and mental defenders Big up to L A temple members [03:22.32]But in 2000 I seen how I wanted to live I wasn't no executive [03:26.34]So I picked up the mic and I quit my job Said to Simone I gotta get with God [03:30.24]She said Don't worry bout these dollars and quarters Record companies ain't got nuttin for ya [03:34.50]D**n she took me back to Bam Took me back to who I am [03:38.40]Brought me back to the New York landNow I overstand [03:48.24]So rap music is something we do but HIP HOP is something we live [03:54.06]And we look at hip hop in it's 9 elements [04:11.04]Which is breaking emceeing graffiti art deejaying beatboxing street fashion street language street knowledge and street entrepenurialism trade and business [04:26.22]And uhh that's where y'know that's the hip hop that that that we're about [04:30.30]We come from the uhh the root of of Kool DJ Herc who originated hip hop in the early [04:38.07]And then Afrika Bambaata and Zulu Nation [04:40.38]Mmhmm [04:40.89]Who instigated something called The Infinity Lessons [04:43.41]And added conciousness to hip hop and then Grandmaster Flashwith the invention of the mixer on to Run D M C and then myself [04:51.87]And uhh we created the Stop the Violence movement you may recall a song Self Destruction and and and so on [04:58.89]All of this goes to uhh uhh the idea of LIVING this culture out and taking responsibility for how it looks and and acts in society