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

[ti:MC's Act Like They Don't Know] [ar:KRS-One] [al:The Essential] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.40]Clap your hands everybody [00:02.18] [00:02.72]If you got what it takes [00:04.66] [00:05.42]'Cos I'm KRS and I'm on the mic [00:08.17]And premier's on the breaks [00:10.40] [00:20.54]Going out to the hardcore hip-hop [00:22.44] [00:24.76]Going out to the hardcore hip-hop [00:27.73] [00:28.93]Of course we don't flip-flop [00:31.32] [00:31.95]If you don't know me by now [00:33.59]I doubt you'll ever know me [00:35.11]I never won a Grammy [00:36.15]I won't win a Tony [00:37.50]But I'm not the only MC keepin' it real [00:40.02]When I grab the mic to smash a rapper [00:42.85]Girls go [00:43.92]"Ill" [00:44.13]Check the time as I rhyme it's 1995 [00:46.37]Whenever I arrive the party gets liver [00:48.21]Flow with the master rhymer [00:49.38]That's to leave behind [00:50.92]The video rapper you know [00:52.58]The chart climber [00:53.77]Clapper down goes another rapper [00:55.81]Onto another matter [00:56.86]Punch up the data [00:58.38]Blastmaster [00:59.10]Knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everybody [01:01.27]Call up KRS I'm guaranteed to rip a party [01:03.99]Flat top braids bald heads or natty dread [01:06.60]There once was a story about a man named Jed [01:09.60]But now Jed is dead all his kids instead [01:13.19]Want to kick rhymes off the top of they head [01:15.49]Word what go around come around I figure [01:17.43]Now we got white kids callin' themselves niggas [01:19.72]The tables turned as the crosses burned [01:22.09]Remember you must learn [01:24.43] [01:25.05]About the styles I flip and how wild I get [01:27.63]I go on like a space age rocket ship [01:30.25]You could be a mack a pimp [01:32.27]Hustler or player [01:33.16]But make sure live you is a d**e rhyme sayer [01:35.87] [01:37.58]MC's act like they don't know [01:41.20] [01:43.48]MC's act like they don't know [01:46.41] [01:49.94]MC's act like they don't know [01:51.25] [01:54.78]MC's act like they don't know [01:56.77] [01:57.53]This is what you waited all year for [01:59.70]The hardcore that's what KRS is here for [02:02.52]Big up Grand Wizard Theodore [02:04.36]Gettin' ill [02:04.97]If you see then ya saw [02:06.29]I'm in your grill with mad skill [02:07.73]MC's can only battle [02:09.78]With rhymes that got punchlines [02:10.80]Let's battle to see who headlines [02:13.11]Instead of flow for flow let's go show for show [02:15.93]Toe for toe yo you better act like you know [02:18.73]Too many MC's take that word 'Emcee' lightly [02:21.16]They can't Move a Crowd [02:22.72]Not even slightly [02:24.17]It might be the fact that they express wackness [02:26.72]Let me show ya whose a** is the blackest [02:29.57]I flip a script a little bit you ride the tip and sh*t [02:33.04]Too sick to get with it [02:35.02]Admit you bit [02:36.07]Your style is counterfeit now tone it down a bit [02:39.04]My title you will never get I'm too intelligent [02:40.71]I'll send your family my sentiments my style is toxic [02:43.08]When I rock and shock and [02:44.31]Hip hop it unlock your head [02:45.80]I knock it [02:46.53]It split quick from the lyric [02:47.82]Direct hit perfect fit you can't get with it [02:50.22] [02:50.97]MC's act like they don't know [02:55.50]MC's act like they don't know [03:00.51] [03:01.47]MC's act like they don't know [03:06.24]MC's act like they don't know [03:11.56]Some MC's don't like the KRS [03:13.76]But they must respect him [03:14.75]'Cos they know this kid gets all up in they rectum [03:17.25]Slappin' and selectin' em checkin' em [03:19.23]Disrespectin' em [03:19.70]Just deckin' em deckin' em deck-in' em [03:22.79]Who in their right mind [03:23.76]Can mimic a style like mine [03:25.15]I design rhyme and get mine all the time [03:27.40]MC's standin' on the sidelines always dissin' [03:29.98]When I roll up and [03:31.06]Rush their crew they start bitchin' [03:32.33] [03:32.84]I don't burn I don't freeze yet some MC's [03:35.69]Believe they [03:36.13]Could tangle with the likes of these [03:38.45]Cross your T's and dot [03:39.51]Your I's whenever I arrive [03:40.88]Wide magnified live like the ocean tide [03:43.28]You d**e you lied I reside like artefacts [03:46.80]On the wrong side of the tracks electrified [03:49.41]Comin' around the mountain you run and hide [03:51.82]Hopin' your defence mechanism [03:52.93] [03:55.36]Can divert my heat-seeking lyricism [03:56.89]As I spark mad iszm the 1996 [03:58.13]Lyrical style's what I give 'em [04:00.03]MC's act like they don't know [04:01.63] [04:08.22]MC's act like they don't know [04:09.48] [04:13.76]MC's act like they don't know [04:15.05] [04:19.01]MC's act like they don't know [04:20.39] [04:24.32]MC's act like they don't know