[ti:MC's Act Like They Don't Know (LP Version)] [ar:KRS-One] [al:KRS-One] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]MC's Act Like They Don't Know (Explicit) - KRS-One [00:00.50]Clap your hands everybody if you got what it takes [00:05.34]'Cos I'm KRS and I'm on the mic and premier's on the breaks [00:11.11] [00:21.15]Going out to the hardcore hip-hop [00:24.32] [00:26.22]Going out to the hardcore hip-hop of course we don't flip-flop [00:29.80] [00:31.91]If you don't know me by now I doubt you'll ever know me [00:34.65]I never won a Grammy I won't win a Tony [00:37.52]But I'm not the only MC keepin' it real [00:39.99]When I grab the mic to smash a rapper girls go"Ill" [00:43.14]Check the time as I rhyme it's 1995 [00:45.52]Whenever I arrive the party gets liver [00:47.85]Flow with the master rhymer that's to leave behind [00:50.74]The video rapper you know the chart climber [00:53.29]Clapper down goes another rapper [00:55.44]Onto another matter punch up the data Blastmaster [00:57.92] [00:58.76]Knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everybody [01:00.75]Call up KRS I'm guaranteed to rip a party [01:03.94]Flat top braids bald heads or natty dread [01:06.63]There once was a story about a man named Jed [01:09.20]But now Jed is dead all his kids instead [01:11.91]Want to kick rhymes off the top of they head [01:14.50]Word what go around come around I figure [01:17.17]Now we got white kids callin' themselves niggas [01:19.80]The tables turned as the crosses burned [01:22.33]Remember you must learn [01:24.87]About the styles I flip and how wild I get [01:27.54]I go on like a space age rocket ship [01:30.10]You could be a mack a pimp hustler or player [01:32.98]But make sure live you is a d**e rhyme sayer [01:36.12] [01:40.09]MC's act like they don't know [01:41.50] [01:45.22]MC's act like they don't know [01:46.49] [01:50.53]MC's act like they don't know [01:51.80] [01:55.80]MC's act like they don't know [01:57.10] [01:57.69]This is what you waited all year for [01:59.80]The hardcore that's what KRS is here for [02:02.39]Big up Grand Wizard Theodore gettin' ill [02:04.87]If you see then ya saw I'm in your grill with mad skill [02:07.92]MC's can only battle with rhymes that got punchlines [02:11.20]Let's battle to see who headlines [02:13.11]Instead of flow for flow let's go show for show [02:15.72]Toe for toe yo you better act like you know [02:18.35]Too many MC's take that word 'Emcee' lightly [02:21.12]They can't Move a Crowd not even slightly [02:23.82]It might be the fact that they express wackness [02:26.44]Let me show ya whose a** is the blackest [02:28.99]I flip a script a little bit you ride the tip and sh*t [02:31.80]Too sick to get with it admit you bit [02:33.38]Your style is counterfeit now tone it down a bit [02:36.07]My title you will never get I'm too intelligent [02:37.98] [02:38.88]I'll send your family my sentiments my style is toxic [02:41.94]When I rock and shock and hip hop it unlock your head I knock it [02:45.52]It split quick from the lyric [02:47.49]Direct hit perfect fit you can't get with it [02:50.05] [02:54.25]MC's act like they don't know [02:56.18] [02:58.68]MC's act like they don't know [03:00.61] [03:04.81]MC's act like they don't know [03:05.99] [03:10.09]MC's act like they don't know [03:11.49]Some MC's don't like the KRS but they must respect him [03:14.52]'Cos they know this kid gets all up in they rectum [03:16.76]Slappin' and selectin' em checkin' em disrespectin' em [03:19.64]Just deckin' em deckin' em deck-in' em [03:22.21]Who in their right mind can mimic a style like mine [03:24.82]I design rhyme and get mine all the time [03:27.22]MC's standin' on the sidelines always dissin' [03:30.47]When I roll up and rush their crew they start *****in' [03:32.88]I don't burn I don't freeze yet some MC's [03:35.50]Believe they could tangle with the likes of these [03:38.01]Cross your T's and dot your I's whenever I arrive [03:40.48]Wide magnified live like the ocean tide [03:42.87]You d**e you lied I reside like artefacts [03:45.98]On the wrong side of the tracks electrified [03:48.60]Comin' around the mountain you run and hide [03:50.64]Hopin' your defence mechanism can divert my heat-seeking lyricism [03:53.87] [03:54.50]As I spark mad iszm the 1996 lyrical style's what I give 'em [04:00.48]MC's act like they don't know [04:02.58] [04:08.60]MC's act like they don't know [04:09.86] [04:13.88]MC's act like they don't know [04:15.39] [04:19.16]MC's act like they don't know [04:20.64] [04:24.42]MC's act like they don't know