Health， Wealth， Self - KRS-One

[00:05.13]Yeah yeah yup
[00:08.94]You know what I was just downstairs
[00:12.72]And I was on my way up here to the studio and
[00:15.24]A guy bumped into me and
[00:16.95]And he said he said yo kris
[00:21.42]How is it that you stay in this music
[00:24.48]You know this rap music ex specially for so long so long
[00:33.54]I said well you know years ago I made a deal with the goddess
[00:38.82]He said the goddess
[00:40.65]I said well yeah you might know her as god
[00:43.56]But I know her as the goddess
[00:46.65]The universal mother
[00:48.99]The mother of everything you see in existance
[00:54.0]I ax ked her for assistance
[00:57.12]In lyrical persistance
[01:00.87]And she gave it to me under one condition
[01:06.81]She said I'll give you the gift
[01:10.26]But use the gift to uplift
[01:14.34]I said okay mom
[01:24.81]So I tell you the truth really
[01:28.32]Me nah gon need nuttin else
[01:30.479996]But health wealth and knowledge of myself
[01:35.19]Me nah gon need nuttin else
[01:37.44]But health wealth and knowledge of myself
[01:41.43]In the beginning was the word the word was made flesh
[01:44.55]Knowledge k reigns r supreme s
[01:47.91]Some of us guess while others of us are blessed
[01:51.18]Take heed to the word that I manifest
[01:54.479996]I manifest the future the present followed by the past
[01:58.53]Everything in nature rules by kickin a*s
[02:01.89]What they tellin me but yo you a friend to me
[02:05.46]So I'ma tell you the secrets of mc longevity
[02:12.12]And about your career huh well choose another one
[02:16.14]If you don't like what you do you're through
[02:19.2]Lesson two：make sure you got a d**e crew
[02:22.74]Not some crew that's like an anchor on a shoe
[02:26.07]A mad crew that's of some benefit to you
[02:29.73]Lesson three might be contradictory or funny
[02:33.06]But mcs should have other ways of gettin money
[02:37.05]That's to say learn other things beside music
[02:40.08]Make money elsewhere hip hop you won't abuse it
[02:43.5]Too many mcs just emcee
[02:46.11]So their longevity is based on an uncle tom
[02:49.29001]At the record company
[02:54.12]Image is respected records come and go
[02:57.0]And get collected
[02:58.47]Even the records of platinum artists that used to rip shop
[03:01.56]Can be bought for a quarter at the thrift shop
[03:05.07]Which brings me to lesson number five the illusion
[03:08.91]Has me thinkin the minute they drop a record
[03:11.52]They'll be cruisin in the acura
[03:14.64]Slow down you're still a amateur
[03:17.31]What seperates the pro from the amateur is stamina
[03:21.81]Not how long you can rhyme but how long you've been rhymin
[03:26.34]Changin with the times and findin yourself
[03:29.28]Still cliiiiiiiiiiiimbin for wealth
[03:31.44]Blow for blow you're still growin still showin
[03:36.54001]All knowin
[03:37.8]Now that's a pro at it
[03:40.44]Me nah gon need nuttin else
[03:47.82]But health wealth and knowledge of myself
[04:30.33]Me nah gon need nuttin else
[04:36.41998]But health wealth and knowledge of myself
[04:52.35]Thank you mother I'm out