I Got Next/Neva Hadda Gun-KRS-One

[ti:I Got Next/Neva Hadda Gun] [ar:KRS-One] [al:I Got Next] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.06]It's meant to be evidently [00:02.12]When I rock so eloquently [00:03.36]Put the beat on and let me [00:04.83]Kill another wack emcee [00:05.97]Can't trust them never test me [00:07.43]I practice and study [00:08.54]But I'm not in it for the money [00:10.21]But to me they look so funny [00:11.33]You can't test the teacher [00:12.39]The teacher won't reach intact [00:13.47]Through the speaker you're weaker now sit your a** in the back [00:16.25]My lyrical you hear it you fear it you can't get near it [00:19.21]Cause the spirit eat Eric [00:20.49]And Eric your rhymes is wack [00:22.05]Like that that right back [00:24.77] [00:43.65]Check it out [00:44.26] [00:46.77]Check it like this [00:47.82]Just skills You know you gots to build just skills [00:52.32]You know you gots to build just skills uh come on get down [00:55.94]Just skills You know we got to build just skills come on get down [01:01.09]I got that rip track flip that underground rap [01:03.50]When I kick back [01:04.60]Most of what I'm hearin be weak [01:06.31]So I speak through beats and the streets as I teach [01:08.98]I impeach through speech each lyric leech I reach [01:11.34]Have a seat in the lecture [01:12.87]Nothin can protect you [01:14.20]Hard is the texture [01:15.14]Of the mic wreckin rock in your sector [01:17.05]Better than ever remember I am no beginner [01:19.54]I like to shout out Eric Skinner [01:21.69]Just skills you know we gots to build just skills come on a get down [01:26.29]Just skills you know we gots to build just skills come on a get down [01:31.38]Yo we livin in a world of private jets and limousine [01:34.14]The fruit we eatin as we prepare tangerine to nectarine [01:36.67]See everybody livin in the same routine [01:39.20]We need the telephone and yes we need the fax machine [01:41.58]You listen to the sound well I think you know it's me [01:44.14]Now let me educate you with my concious poetry [01:46.61]Me want me want me want me want me want no wack rap [01:49.30]Me want me want me want me want me want no wack rap [01:51.86]Me love me love me love me love me love it when it's bad [01:54.41]See if you wack rap you ought be steppin out the back [01:56.88]See emcees on the microphone forgettin that they black [01:59.23]See hear them kick the lyrics that are holdin people back [02:01.89]But when you hear the teacher KRS will find the track [02:04.34]You bound to see the light and you don't want return back [02:06.88]So listen very closely to the secret scientist [02:09.53]I'm sending this one out to all my inner city kids [02:12.05]Now you supposed to be apostle what you have inside your head [02:14.50]Can make you more reliable it can make you feel dead [02:17.06]Now listen very closely to the way I say this rhyme [02:19.58]It's the thing called the brain and the thing called the mind [02:22.34]But I'm outta time [02:23.60] [02:26.07]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [02:31.27]No you can't cause now you bouts to get done [02:33.77]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [02:35.92]Never had a gun never had a gun [02:38.44]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [02:41.03]No you can't cause now you bouts to get done [02:43.56]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [02:45.87]Never had a gun never had a gun [02:48.25]On the block you just yap a whole lot [02:50.36]About the clothes that you got [02:51.50]Yo or the gold that you got [02:52.79]Everybody sees all the friends in your Benz yo it's fat [02:55.98]But they ain't gettin money like that [02:57.85]Word to my brother Kenny jealous one envy [02:59.81]The rich are few while the poor many [03:02.71]But you got gold cuffs and cars and stuff [03:04.67]You eatin well but still in the ghetto you dwell [03:07.21]You know it's hot so you make it known about your glock [03:10.39]To any perpetrator tryin to blow up your spot [03:12.58]You grab the microphone and talk a good ramble [03:14.85]You the hardcore outlaw criminal vandal [03:17.63]Burnin emcees like a candle but you frontin [03:20.03]You ain't got nothin with your life you gamble [03:22.40]One day you gamble up snake eyes [03:24.45]Talkin all that junk about you don't take dives you take lives [03:27.65] [03:28.48]Nobody on the block tries cause you claim you got powerful ties [03:32.16]So at the red light you arrive [03:33.92]And to your surprise you get heffed up with just two steak knives [03:36.89]You're terrified they take your Benz and what makes things worse [03:40.50]You ain't got gun the first [03:42.09] [03:48.04]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [03:49.95]No you can't cause now you bouts to get done [03:52.42]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [03:54.64]Never had a gun never had a gun [03:57.06]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [03:59.36]No you can't cause now you bouts to get done [04:02.11]Can I tell them that I really never had a gun [04:04.46]Never had a gun never had a gun [04:06.60]I Got Next/Neva Hadda Gun - KRS-One