KRS-One Ft DJ Premier - Criminal Minded (Video&Lyrics)
KRS-One Ft DJ Premier - Criminal Minded (Official Music Video&Lyrics)KRS-One Ft DJ Premier - Criminal Minded LyricsBoogie Down Productions will always get paidWe'll take the wackest song and make it betterRemember to let us into your skinCause then you'll begin to masterRhymin rhymin rhyminVerse One: KRS OneCriminal minded you've been blindedLookin for a style like mine you can't find itThey are the audience I am the lyricistSometimes the suckas on the side gotta hear thisPage, a rage, and I'm not in a cageFree as a bird to fly up out on stageAin't here for no frontin just to say a little somethinYa suckaz don't like me cause you're all about nothinHowever, I'm really fascinating to the letterMy all-around performance gets better and betterMy English grammar comes down like a hammerYou need a style, I need to pull your fileI don't beg favors, you're kissing other people's ---I write and produce myself just as fastKeep my hair like this, got no time for Jheri curlsAttractin only women, got no time for little girls[KRS sings again] Cause girls look so goodbut their brain is not ready, I don't knowI'd rather talk to a womancause her mind is so steady, so here we goI'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanaticI simply made use of what was upstairs in the atticI've listened to these MC's back when I was a kidBut I bust more shots than they ever didI mean this is not the best of KRS, it's just a sectionBut how many times must I point you in the right directionYou need protection, when I'm on the micBecause my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipeYou're a king, I'm a teacherYou're a b-boy, I'm a scholarIf this was a class, well it would go right under dramaSee kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligentTalkin big words on the mic but still irrelevantEspecially when you're not, college materialWake up every morning to your Lucky Charms cerealDJ Scott LaRock has a college degreeBlastmaster KRS writes poetryI won't go deeper in the subject cause that gets me boredIt's a shame to know some MC's on the mic are fraudSayin styles like this to create a dissBut if you listen, who you dissin?See I am a musicianRappin on the mic like this to me is fineCause if I really want to battle I will put out a nineYou can see that Scott LaRock and I are mentally bindedIn other words we're both Criminal MindedVerse Two: KRS-OneWe're not promoting violence, we're just havin some funHe's Scott LaRock, I'm KRS-OneNever off-beat cause it don't make senseGrab the microphone, relaxed and not tenseYou waited, debated, and now you activatedA musical genius that could not be duplicatedSee I have the formula for rockin the houseIf you cannot rock a party do not open your mouthIt's that simple, no phony cosmetics to your pimpleTake another look because the gear is not wrinkledThe K, the R, the S, the O, the N, the ESayin rhyme for eighty-seven not from 1983Well versed, to rehearse, and my rhymes are my curseOriginality come first but the suckers get worseAllow me to include I have a very stable moodPoetic education of a high altitudeI'm not an MC, so listen, call me poet or musicianA genius when it comes to making music with ambitionI'm cool, collected with the rhyme I directedDon't wanna be elected as the king of a recordJust respected by others as the man with the solutionAn artist of the 80's came and left his contributionon wax, relax, there's 24 tracksAfter years of rocking parties now I picked up the knackBecause everything that flows from out my larynxTakes years of experience and bottles of Beck'sI cannot seem to recollect the time I didn't have sexIs it real or is it Memorex?I'm livin in a city known as New York StateSucka MC's gotta wait while I translateI hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their headsPeople with ambition and straight up musiciansAlthough our lives have been so uprootedI have it included, you all get zootedSo take each letter of the KRS-OneMeans Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly EveryoneYou look at me and laugh, but this is your classIt's an all-out discussion of the suckas I be crushinSo now you are awakened to the music I be makinNever duplicated, and also highly cultivatedDon't get frustrated cause nothin has been tradedOnly activated, it came out very complicatedNot separated, from my DJYou see my voice is now fadedI'll see you folks around the wayCriminal minded...