My Philosophy-Boogie Down Productions

[ti:My Philosophy] [ar:Boogie Down Productions] [al:By All Means Necessary] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.79]My Philosophy - Boogie Down Productions [00:01.73]Voice: so you're a philosopher [00:03.16]Krs: yes I think very deeply [00:07.47]Lets begin what where why or when [00:22.45]Will all be explained like instructions to a game [00:32.00]See I'm not insane in fact I'm kind of rational [00:37.05]When I be asking you who is more dramatical [00:39.92]This one or that one the white one or the black one [00:42.98]Pick the punk and Ill jump up to attack one [00:45.72]Krs-one is just the guy to lead a crew [00:50.46]Right up to your face and dis you [00:52.59]Everyone saw me on the last album cover [00:56.90]Holding a pistol something far from a lover [00:58.95]Beside my brother s-c-o-t-t [00:59.45]I just laughed cause no one can defeat me [01:01.14]This is lecture number two my philosophy [01:02.38]Number one was poetry you know its me [01:03.94]This is my philosophy many artists got to learn [01:05.69]I'm not flammable I don't burn [01:07.12]So please stop burnin and learn to earn respect [01:10.00]Cause thats just what kr collects [01:12.12]See what do you expect when you rhyme like a soft punk [01:15.61]You walk down the street and get jumped [01:17.61]You got to have style and learn to be original [01:22.98]And everybodys gonna wanna diss you [01:24.41]Like me we stood up for the south bronx [01:25.90]And every sucka mc had a response [01:27.40]You think we care I know that they are on the tip [01:31.09]My posse from the bronx is thick [01:33.14]And were real live we walk correctly [01:35.27]A lot of suckas would like to forget me [01:38.26]But they can't cause like a champ [01:40.01]I have got a record of knocking out the frauds in a second [01:42.32]On the mic I believe that you should get loose [01:44.13]I havent come to tell you I have juice [01:45.44]I just produce create innovate on a higher level [01:47.44]Ill be back but for now just seckle [01:48.93]Ill play the nine and you play the target [01:50.80]You all know my name so I guess Ill just start it [01:53.74]Or should I say start this I am an artist [01:56.62]Of new concepts at their hardest [01:58.29]Cause yo I'm a teacher and scott is a scholar [02:02.22]It ain't about money cause we all make dollars [02:04.16]Thats why i walk with my head up [02:05.84]When I hear wack rhymes I get fed up [02:08.15]Rap is like a set-up a lot of games [02:09.90]A lot of suckas with colorful names [02:11.22]I'm so-and-so I'm this I'm that [02:12.52]Huh but they all just wick-wick-wack [02:13.77]I'm not white or red or black [02:15.27]I'm brown from the boogie down [02:16.57]Productions of course our music be thumpin [02:18.17]Others say their bad but theyre buggin [02:19.80]Let me tell you somethin now about hip hop [02:21.60]About d-nice melodie and scott la rock [02:23.60]Ill get a pen a pencil a marker [02:25.66]Mainly what I write is for the average new yorker [02:28.28]Some mcs be talkin and talkin [02:30.46]Tryin to show how black people are walkin [02:32.46]But I don't walk this way to portray [02:35.20]Or reinforce stereotypes of today [02:36.39]Like all my brothas eat chicken and watermelon [02:40.13]Talk broken english and drug sellin [02:42.44]See I'm tellin and teaching real facts [02:46.50]The way some act in rap is kind of wack [02:49.25]And it lacks creativity and intelligence [02:50.87]But they don't care cause the company is sellin it [02:53.05]Its my philosophy on the industry [02:54.36]Don't bother dissin me or even wish that wed [02:56.73]Soften dilute or commercialize all our lyrics [02:58.73]Cause its about time one of yall hear it [03:01.10]And hear it first-hand from the intelligent brown man [03:03.41]A vegetarian no goat or ham [03:04.78]Or chicken or turkey or hamburger [03:06.34]Cause to me thats suicide self-murder [03:07.90]Let us get back to what we call hip hop [03:10.59]And what it meant to dj scott la rock [03:13.02]How many mcs must get dissed [03:14.77]Before somebody says don't f*** with kris [03:17.20]This is just one style out of many [03:19.64]Like a piggy bank this is one penny [03:22.32]My brothers name is kenny - thats kenny parker [03:25.00]My other brother i c u is much darker [03:26.81]Boogie down productions is made up of teachers [03:28.87]The lecture is conducted from the mic into the speaker [03:31.87]Who gets weaker the king or the teacher [03:35.30]Its not about a salary its all about reality [03:38.04]Teachers teach and do the world good [03:39.85]Kings just rule and most are never understood [03:41.85]If you were to rule or govern a certain industry [03:44.28]All inside this room right now would be in misery [03:47.65]No one would get along nor sing a song [03:50.09]Cause everyoned be singing for the king am I wrong [03:53.58]So yo whats up its me again [03:55.83]Scott la rock krs bdp again [03:57.51]Many people had the nerve to think we would end the trend [04:00.82]Were criminal minded an album which is only ten [04:04.31]Funky funky funky funky funky hit records [04:06.69]No more than four minutes and some seconds [04:08.87]The competition checks and checks and keeps checkin [04:11.43]They buy the album take it home and start sweatin [04:14.61]Why well its simple to them its kind of vital [04:18.54]To take krs-ones title [04:20.16]To them I'm like an idol some type of entity [04:22.22]In everybodys rhyme they wanna mention me [04:24.97]Or rather mention us me or scott la rock [04:27.09]But they can get bust get robbed get dropped [04:29.21]I don't play around nor do I f*** around [04:31.15]And you can tell by the bodies that are left around [04:33.33]When some clown jumps up to get beat down [04:35.51]Broken down to his very last compound [04:36.89]See how it sounds a little unrational [04:38.57]A lot of mcs like to use the word dramatical [04:40.69]Fresh for 88 you suckas