[Intro/Chorus: KRS-One] However, I'm really fascinating to the letter My english grammar gets better and better However, I'm really fascinating to the letter My english grammar gets better and better However, I'm really fascinating to the letter My english grammar gets better and better However, I'm really fascinating to the letter My english grammar gets better
[KRS-One] History in the making, get with me I'm not faking Big up all my Jamaicans, Haitians and all my nations Latinos and my Asians, yeah I know you've been waitin Feeling you've been forsaken, but I'm building this nation Building new innovation, look at what we've been facin Payola on these stations, plus they run like plantations Complete with black beats sportin soul by caucausians If you hear me on your station best believe I'm not payin~! KRS is the realest, KRS-One is fearless I grew up in them days when crack was new to drug dealers See them cats they be liars, we the New York survivors Eighty-one to ninety-one, they was our record buyers Now they front cause they got work tryin to redo all my work 'til we live and in concert, and I'm makin they eye hurt Shinin so bright and so lively Everybody know, hip-hop was better in the nineties
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[Pee-Doe] {?} it was better in the nineties, the solo was grimey The Wu-Tang Clan came in with the killer army Grand Puba came in with Girbauds hangin low Hilfiger Tommy niggaz rockin Polo 40 ounce guzzlin, nickel bag coppin Troopin through the block with the boombox knockin All we do is "Spark Mad Ism" non-stop and when Hot 97 played the real hip-hop and I remember 98, point 7 KISS FM with Kool DJ Red Alert, mixin up the blends Them mixtape deejays had the streets on lock Like Demo and Ron G, my nigga Doo Wop Before the radio station corrupted the nation to rule the street, AandR's discoverin the sensations KRS came with the peace declaration Took it with the leaders to the United Nations