Criminal Minded-Boogie Down Productions

[ti:Criminal Minded] [ar:Boogie Down Productions] [al:Criminal Minded Deluxe Edition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Criminal Minded - Boogie Down Productions [00:00.02]Written by：L. Parker/S. LaRock [00:00.36]Boogie Down Productions will always get paid [00:04.10] [00:05.32]We'll take the wackest song and make it better [00:10.01] [00:11.46]Remember to let us into your skin [00:14.69] [00:15.69]Cause then you'll begin to master [00:19.18] [00:19.77]Rhymin' rhymin' rhymin' [00:21.81] [00:22.70]Criminal minded you've been blinded [00:25.24]Looking for a style like mine you can't find it [00:27.85]They are the audience I am the lyricist [00:30.41]Sometimes the suckers on the side gotta hear this [00:33.08]Page a rage and I'm not in a cage [00:35.76]Free as a bird to fly up out on stage [00:38.22]Ain't here for no fronting just to say a little something [00:40.89]You suckers don't like me cause you're all about nothing [00:43.51]However I'm really fascinating to the letter [00:46.23]My all-around performance gets better and better [00:48.82]My English grammar comes down like a hammer [00:51.50]You need a style I need to pull your file [00:54.23]I don't beg favors you're kissing other people's [00:56.62]I write and produce myself just as fast [00:59.10]Keep my hair like this got no time for Jheri curls [01:02.08]Attracting only women got no time for little girls [01:04.64]Cause girls look so good but their brain is not ready [01:08.40]I don't know [01:09.68]I'd rather talk to a woman cause her mind is so steady [01:13.64]So here we go [01:15.02]I'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanatic [01:17.74]I simply made use of what was upstairs in the attic [01:20.53]I've listened to these MC's back when I was a kid [01:23.25]But I bust more shots than they ever did [01:25.62]I mean this is not the best of KRS it's just a section [01:28.51]But how many times must I point you in the right direction [01:31.43]You need protection when I'm on the mic [01:33.72]Because my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipe [01:36.29]You're a king I'm a teacher [01:37.53]You're a b-boy I'm a scholar [01:39.01]If this was a class well it would go right under drama [01:41.57]See kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent [01:44.33]Talking big words on the mic but still irrelevant [01:47.02]Especially when you're not college material [01:49.66]Wake up every morning to your Lucky Charms cereal [01:52.55]DJ Scott La Rock has a college degree [01:54.90]Blastmaster KRS writes poetry [01:57.21]I won't go deeper in the subject cause that gets me bored [02:00.08]It's a shame to know some MC's on the mic are fraud [02:02.71]Saying styles like this to create a diss [02:05.16]But if you listen who you dissing [02:06.80]I am a musician [02:08.31]Rapping on the mic like this to me is fine [02:10.58]Cause if I really want to battle I will put out a nine [02:13.12]You can see that Scott La Rock and I are mentally binded [02:16.27]In other words we're both Criminal Minded [02:18.65] [02:39.75]We're not promoting violence we're just having some fun [02:42.40]He's Scott La Rock I'm KRS-One [02:45.24]Never off-beat cause it don't make sense [02:47.82]Grab the microphone relaxed and not tense [02:50.53]You waited debated and now you activated [02:53.11]A musical genius that could not be duplicated [02:55.76]See I have the formula for rocking the house [02:58.21]If you cannot rock a party do not open your mouth [03:00.80]It's that simple no phony cosmetics for your pimple [03:03.62]Take another look because the gear is not wrinkled [03:06.35]The K the R the S the O the N the E [03:08.93]Say a rhyme for 87 not no 1983 [03:11.57]Well versed to rehearse in my rhymes I might curse [03:14.01]Originality is first but the suckers get worse [03:16.57]Allow me to include I have a very stable mood [03:19.34]Poetic education of a high altitude [03:21.91]I'm not an MC so listen call me poet or musician [03:24.76]A genius when it comes to making music with ambition [03:27.46]I'm cool collected with the rhyme I directed [03:30.03]Don't wanna be elected as the king of a record [03:32.74]Just respected by others as the man with the solution [03:35.37]An artist of the 80's came and left his contribution [03:38.10]On wax relax there's 24 tracks [03:40.69]After years of rocking parties now I picked up the knack [03:43.10]Because everything that flows from out my larynx [03:45.90]Takes years of experience and bottles of Beck's [03:48.53]I cannot seem to recollect the time I didn't have sex [03:51.19]Is it real or is it Memorex [03:54.01]I'm living in a city known as New York State [03:56.38]Sucker MC's gotta wait while I translate [03:59.03]I hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their heads [04:01.86]People with ambition and straight up musicians [04:04.48]Although our lives have been so uprooted [04:07.07]I haven't included you can all get zooted [04:09.92]So take each letter of the KRS-One [04:12.30]Means Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone [04:15.09]You look at me and laugh but this is your class [04:17.57]It's an all-out discussion of the suckers I be crushing [04:20.16]So now you are awakened to the music I be making [04:23.06]Never duplicated and also highly cultivated [04:25.97]Don't get frustrated cause nothing has been traded [04:28.33]Only activated it came out very complicated [04:30.70] [04:31.30]Not separated from my DJ [04:33.38]You see my voice is now faded [04:34.98]I'll see you folks around the way [04:36.53] [04:37.95]Criminal minded [04:38.86] [04:43.10]Criminal minded [04:44.18] [04:48.53]Criminal minded [04:49.42] [04:53.91]Criminal minded