Are You Ready For This

[00:00.47] Well are you ready for this?
[00:01.96] We ready for this
[00:03.16] Are you ready for this?
[00:04.51] We ready for this
[00:05.94] Well we just can't miss
[00:07.02] Just can't miss
[00:08.37] Well we just can't miss
[00:09.51] Drop the beat like this
[00:10.95] Are you ready for this?
[00:12.18] We ready for this
[00:13.33] Are you ready for this?
[00:14.69] We ready for this
[00:15.95] Well we just can't miss
[00:17.46] Just can't miss
[00:18.51] Well we just can't miss
[00:19.88] Well when I speak this I'ma be like this, I'ma be like Kris
[00:23.67] I'ma teacher, I'ma preacher, I'ma free my kids
[00:26.19] I'ma grow dem and show dem what a leader is
[00:28.61] I'ma teach dem the laws of receive and give
[00:31.20] Knowledge, reigns, supreme, believe and live
[00:33.62] You done heard the hype, come to where the talent is
[00:36.49] I'm still the number one, yup you heard right
[00:38.86] People say, "KRS-One you shine bright"
[00:41.42] Others say, yo you rhyme tight
[00:43.53] When you find me, you find light, and that's alright
[00:46.55] I don't know about pimpin', sellin' women like retail
[00:49.40] Or turning Coke into crack for resale
[00:52.01] But I do know if we fail
[00:53.84] In 2020 our children by the million gonna be jailed
[00:57.00] We got the victory over the streets
[00:59.34] God willin' we chillin', we know we gon' eat
[01:01.82] I'm a whole different kind of MC, hoes don't like
[01:04.67] Not tempt me but the ladies treat me oh so gently
[01:06.91] Universities sendin' me stretch Bentleys
[01:09.73] My seminars and lectures, are rarely never empty
[01:12.42] We teach students plenty, honorary degrees
[01:14.84] Gold and platinum plaques I got many, ask Kenny
[01:17.52] People get shocked when I walk into Denny's
[01:20.04] Or the corner Kwik-Stop, they say, "That's Hip-Hop right there"
[01:23.58] And yeah it's really quite clear 2004 might be the right year
[01:27.50] For mental and spiritual repair
[01:29.48] The solution is in the resolution you just declared
[01:32.58] Well are you ready for this?
[01:33.85] We ready for this
[01:35.04] Are you ready for this?
[01:36.49] We ready for this
[01:37.74] Well we just can't miss
[01:39.11] Just can't miss
[01:40.29] Well we just can't miss
[01:41.45] Drop the beat like this
[01:42.72] Are you ready for this?
[01:44.12] We ready for this
[01:45.44] Are you ready for this?
[01:46.68] We ready for this
[01:47.94] Well we just can't miss
[01:49.18] Just can't miss
[01:50.44] Well we just can't miss
[01:51.74] When I speak like this
[01:53.09] Knowledge Reigns Supreme, hip-hop philosopher
[01:55.39] All in the street well I'm very popular
[01:58.25] All through the hood I make all the stops
[02:00.54] And I avoid the cops and them random shots
[02:03.21] Well I love hip-hop and I live hip-hop
[02:05.53] So I spit that shit to get you off your block
[02:08.46] 'Cause I can't understand and I, wish I could see dem
[02:11.05] Cats that talk 'bout they love the hood
[02:13.35] And they never bring the hood anything that's good
[02:15.90] And they rap for the money tree, chasin' a company
[02:18.56] But I think you can now see, rap is fun to me
[02:21.40] I got a ministry, a class, a staff that's under me
[02:23.99] KRS in pop rapper? Nah, it ain't ought to be
[02:26.46] It'll never happen like, you eatin' pork with me
[02:29.08] Amateurs hawkin' me, don't even talk to me
[02:31.47] My house is in Atlanta but I still got New York in me
[02:34.12] Walk with me, most rappers are short to me
[02:36.42] I'm like Chamberlain, dominatin' the sport you see
[02:39.17] I toss MC's off of me
[02:41.16] When you hear KRS you say that's how it ought to be
[02:43.94] Y'all ready for this?
[02:45.26] We ready for this
[02:46.51] Are you ready for this?
[02:47.76] We ready for this
[02:49.18] Well we just can't miss
[02:50.56] Just can't miss
[02:51.65] Well we just can't miss
[02:52.93] Drop the beat like this
[02:54.24] Are you ready for this?
[02:55.40] We ready for this
[02:56.88] Are you ready for this?
[02:58.14] We ready for this
[02:59.49] Well we just can't miss
[03:00.63] Just can't miss
[03:01.88] Well we just can't miss
[03:03.11] I drop heat like this!
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