Hip Hop vs. Rap - KRS-One

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You you can't can't be be ripping the mic the mic

Like do re me me measles are contagious

Like my lyrical pages ripping and flipping the mic

From back in the back in the days the days

It's kinda hectic, hectic when these suckas

Don't respect it check it, flame on

I know the light is bright but keep on watching me

I'm stolen property, kicking the flavor to society

Police be clocking me, but logically they got to be

'Cause they were taught that serious poetry

Would come from Socrates

But that ain't it, in 94 I'll kick the hit

And if I was in front of Shakespeare

Battle a punk and take his shit, I'm not having it

Bust a narrative and come to get with it

Rap is something you do, hip hop is something you live

The difference is kids nowadays, they got the videos

Rappers don't need skills to build so they don't really know.

Hear me yo, I'm four times on Arsenio

Got ten videos, but does that help me flow? No

That's why when I come to the show MC's act like they don't know

'Cause they were too young to rock up in the disco

Frisco disco, the disc is like a Nabisco

Chocolate chip cookie, don't fuck with me rookie

I'm rocking beats and with death defying feats

And I'm never sneaking, always peeping when I'm speaking

Inside, I'm keeping a statement for police and

I'm down for peace and but not turn the other cheek

And so this DJ, he gets down mixing records

While they go 'round and 'round, 'round we go

Two years ago a friend of mine and Flash is gonna rock your mind

Welcome to the terror dome, the terror dome

I wonder if I take you home E F F E C T a cool operator

Operating correctly but back in the day I knew rap would never die

Too late baby bwai bai in a body boy head, head

Head insane in the membrane take the train, take the train

M E T H O D man 'hattan keeps on making it

Brooklyn keeps on taking it

We keep coming back with more and more hits

Party people, I came through the door, I said it before

Two years ago, super hoe if my train goes off the track

Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up back, back

Back to the grill again, the grill again friends

How many MC's must get dissed?

Before somebody says don't fuck with Chris

Hey, ho, keep on moving don't stop no body beats the biz

Let's do the dance called the Pee Wee Herman

Hey, Erick Sermon, hey, you you get off my cloud

Go down baby, go down baby, the gods must be crazy

You ain't fresh, you ain't fresh, yeah