MC's Act Like They Don't Know - KRS-One

[00:00.31]MCs Act Like They Don't Know - KRS-One
[00:00.84]Clap your hands everybody if you got what it takes
[00:05.12]Cos I'm KRS and I'm on the mic and premier's on the breaks
[00:31.88]If you don't know me by now I doubt you'll ever know me
[00:34.77]I never won a grammy I won't win a tony
[00:37.5]But I'm not the only MC keepin' it real
[00:39.82]When I grab the mic to smash a rapper girls go illlll
[00:43.28]Check the time as I rhyme it's 1995
[00:45.45]Whenever I arrive the party gets liver
[00:47.94]Flow with the master rhymer that's to leave behind
[00:50.87]The video rapper you know the chart climber
[00:53.28]Clapper down goes another rapper
[00:55.57]Onto another matter punch up the data blastmaster
[00:58.67]Knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everybody
[01:01.25]Call up KRS I'm guaranteed to rip a party
[01:03.88]Flat top braids bald heads or natty dread
[01:06.64]There once was a story about a man named Jed
[01:09.26]But now Jed is dead all his kids instead
[01:12.0]Want to kick rhymes off the top of they head
[01:14.54]Word what go around come around I figure
[01:17.22]Now we got white kids callin' themselves niggas
[01:19.87]The tables turned as the crosses burned
[01:22.13]Remember you must learn
[01:24.66]About the styles I flip and how wild I get
[01:27.51]I go on like a space age rocket ship
[01:30.11]You could be a mack a pimp hustler or player
[01:33.11]But make sure live you is a dope rhyme sayer
[01:57.64]This is what you waited all year for
[01:59.66]The hardcore that's what KRS is here for
[02:02.33]Big up grand wizard theodore gettin' ill
[02:04.77]If you see then ya saw I'm in your grill with mad skill
[02:08.03]Mc's can only battle with rhymes that got punchlines
[02:11.08]Let's battle to see who headlines
[02:12.94]Instead of flow for flow let's go show for show
[02:15.67]Toe for toe yo you better act like you know
[02:18.54001]Too many mc's take that word 'emcee' lightly
[02:21.17]They can't move a crowd not even slightly
[02:23.9]It might be the fact that they express wackness
[02:26.58]Let me show ya whose ass is the blackest
[02:29.17]I flip a script a little bit you ride the tip and shit
[02:31.81]Too sick to get with it
[02:33.03]Admit you bit your style is counterfeit
[02:34.63]Now tone it down a bit
[02:36.07]My title you will never get I'm too intelligent
[02:38.72]I'll send your family my sentiments my style is toxic
[02:41.93]When I rock and shock and hip hop it unlock your head
[02:44.42]I knock it
[02:45.76]It split quick from the lyric
[02:47.43]Direct hit perfect fit you can't get with it
[03:11.4]Some mc's don't like the KRS but they must respect him
[03:14.55]Cos they know this kid gets all up in they rectum
[03:16.83]Slappin' and selectin' em checkin' em disrespectin' em
[03:19.87]Just deckin' em deckin' em deckin' em
[03:22.34]Who in their right mind can mimic a style like mine
[03:24.84]I design rhyme and get mine all the time
[03:27.34]Mc's standin' on the sidelines always dissin'
[03:29.99]When I roll up and rush their crew they start bitchin'
[03:32.89]I don't burn I don't freeze yet some mc's
[03:35.53]Believe they could tangle with the likes of these
[03:37.97]Cross your t's and dot your I's whenever I arrive
[03:40.59]Wide magnified live like the ocean tide
[03:43.27]You dope you lied I reside like artefacts
[03:46.3]On the wrong side of the tracks electrified
[03:48.5]Comin' around the mountain you run and hide
[03:50.52]Hopin' your defence mechanism can divert
[03:52.93]My heat-seeking lyricism
[03:54.63]As I spark mad iszm
[03:56.49]The 1996 lyrical style's what I give 'em