KRS-One

Released: February 1, 2008

Featuring: Chuck D

Songwriter: Chuck D KRS-One

[KRS-One]
My man Chuck D
You start it off for us
It take one plan, here's the issues
FIRST~!

[Chuck D] + (KRS)
We don't control shit (second)
No education enforcement (third)
And damn sure no economics (fourth)
Dependin on governments
Forever in a plantation state (fifth)
You know why? Damn that's why I hate hate (six)
Wanna do somethin for the people, make us equal (seven)
Instead of creatures, who got human features (eight)

Let the whole world reach you (nine)
Then classrooms can't reach you (ten)
Yo T'cha (what?) Hit me, drop it now!

[KRS-One]
Yo today's topic, self-creation
You can front if you like but it's your time you wastin
It's your mind you wastin, that's why I'm replacin
Ignorance with awareness that we are a nation
Hip-hop, we create the future we facin
Man - you see what we doin, you still debatin
Still complacent, still hatin
But you'll see there is no revolution, without revelation

The legendary MC from the South Bronx, New York, Lawrence “KRS-One” Parker has been steadily rapping since 1985. His name stands for “Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone”.

KRS came to rapping only by chance. In the Something from The Art of Rap documentary, he recalls watching an MC cypher when suddenly “a dude” randomly picked him out of the crowd and made fun of him. Feeling compelled to defend himself, KRS performed a little freestyle which impressed the crowd and eventually kicked off his rapping career.

His breakthrough onto the hip hop scene began with “The Bridge Is Over” – an answer record to the popular Queens rapper MC Shan’s song “Queensbridge”. From 1986 to 1992, KRS-One fronted the groundbreaking hip hop group Boogie Down Productions, scoring six top 20 hits on the US Rap Chart. In 1993, he began a solo career spanning three decades, racking up six more top 20 Rap Chart hits with “Sound of da Police”, “MCs Act Like They Don’t Know”, “Step Into A World” and “Men Of Steel” also achieving mainstream pop success on the Hot 100.

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