[ti:Criminal Minded] [ar:Boogie Down Productions] [al:Criminal Minded Deluxe Edition] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Criminal Minded - Boogie Down Productions/Lawrence Parker/Scott Sterling [00:00.06]Written by:L. Parker/S. LaRock [00:00.13]Boogie Down Productions will always get paid [00:03.87] [00:05.09]We'll take the wackest song and make it better [00:09.78] [00:11.23]Remember to let us into your skin [00:14.46] [00:15.46]Cause then you'll begin to master [00:18.95] [00:19.54]Rhymin' rhymin' rhymin' [00:21.58] [00:22.47]Criminal minded you've been blinded [00:25.01]Looking for a style like mine you can't find it [00:27.62]They are the audience I am the lyricist [00:30.18]Sometimes the suckers on the side gotta hear this [00:32.85]Page a rage and I'm not in a cage [00:35.53]Free as a bird to fly up out on stage [00:37.99]Ain't here for no fronting just to say a little something [00:40.66]You suckers don't like me cause you're all about nothing [00:43.28]However I'm really fascinating to the letter [00:46.00]My all-around performance gets better and better [00:48.59]My English grammar comes down like a hammer [00:51.27]You need a style I need to pull your file [00:54.00]I don't beg favors you're kissing other people's [00:56.39]I write and produce myself just as fast [00:58.87]Keep my hair like this got no time for Jheri curls [01:01.85]Attracting only women got no time for little girls [01:04.41]Cause girls look so good but their brain is not ready [01:08.17]I don't know [01:09.45]I'd rather talk to a woman cause her mind is so steady [01:13.41]So here we go [01:14.79]I'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanatic [01:17.51]I simply made use of what was upstairs in the attic [01:20.30]I've listened to these MC's back when I was a kid [01:23.02]But I bust more shots than they ever did [01:25.39]I mean this is not the best of KRS it's just a section [01:28.28]But how many times must I point you in the right direction [01:31.20]You need protection when I'm on the mic [01:33.49]Because my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipe [01:36.06]You're a king I'm a teacher [01:37.30]You're a b-boy I'm a scholar [01:38.78]If this was a class well it would go right under drama [01:41.34]See kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent [01:44.10]Talking big words on the mic but still irrelevant [01:46.79]Especially when you're not college material [01:49.43]Wake up every morning to your Lucky Charms cereal [01:52.32]DJ Scott La Rock has a college degree [01:54.67]Blastmaster KRS writes poetry [01:56.98]I won't go deeper in the subject cause that gets me bored [01:59.85]It's a shame to know some MC's on the mic are fraud [02:02.48]Saying styles like this to create a diss [02:04.93]But if you listen who you dissing [02:06.57]I am a musician [02:08.08]Rapping on the mic like this to me is fine [02:10.35]Cause if I really want to battle I will put out a nine [02:12.89]You can see that Scott La Rock and I are mentally binded [02:16.04]In other words we're both Criminal Minded [02:18.42] [02:39.52]We're not promoting violence we're just having some fun [02:42.17]He's Scott La Rock I'm KRS-One [02:45.01]Never off-beat cause it don't make sense [02:47.59]Grab the microphone relaxed and not tense [02:50.30]You waited debated and now you activated [02:52.88]A musical genius that could not be duplicated [02:55.53]See I have the formula for rocking the house [02:57.98]If you cannot rock a party do not open your mouth [03:00.57]It's that simple no phony cosmetics for your pimple [03:03.39]Take another look because the gear is not wrinkled [03:06.12]The K the R the S the O the N the E [03:08.70]Say a rhyme for 87 not no 1983 [03:11.34]Well versed to rehearse in my rhymes I might curse [03:13.78]Originality is first but the suckers get worse [03:16.34]Allow me to include I have a very stable mood [03:19.11]Poetic education of a high altitude [03:21.68]I'm not an MC so listen call me poet or musician [03:24.53]A genius when it comes to making music with ambition [03:27.23]I'm cool collected with the rhyme I directed [03:29.80]Don't wanna be elected as the king of a record [03:32.51]Just respected by others as the man with the solution [03:35.14]An artist of the 80's came and left his contribution [03:37.87]On wax relax there's 24 tracks [03:40.46]After years of rocking parties now I picked up the knack [03:42.87]Because everything that flows from out my larynx [03:45.67]Takes years of experience and bottles of Beck's [03:48.30]I cannot seem to recollect the time I didn't have sex [03:50.96]Is it real or is it Memorex [03:53.78]I'm living in a city known as New York State [03:56.15]Sucker MC's gotta wait while I translate [03:58.80]I hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their heads [04:01.63]People with ambition and straight up musicians [04:04.25]Although our lives have been so uprooted [04:06.84]I haven't included you can all get zooted [04:09.69]So take each letter of the KRS-One [04:12.07]Means Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone [04:14.86]You look at me and laugh but this is your class [04:17.34]It's an all-out discussion of the suckers I be crushing [04:19.93]So now you are awakened to the music I be making [04:22.83]Never duplicated and also highly cultivated [04:25.74]Don't get frustrated cause nothing has been traded [04:28.10]Only activated it came out very complicated [04:30.47] [04:31.07]Not separated from my DJ [04:33.15]You see my voice is now faded [04:34.75]I'll see you folks around the way [04:36.30] [04:37.72]Criminal minded [04:38.63] [04:42.87]Criminal minded [04:43.95] [04:48.30]Criminal minded [04:49.19] [04:53.68]Criminal minded