KRS-One Lyrics

Album: I Got Next

1st Quarter The Commentary Lyrics

anybody in here right now with tape decks turn em on 

and put em on record I'll give you a second 

I want to add authenticity to your tape 

so when it's sold out in the street 

you all can know this was a real party 

These are poems circulating throughout the nation 

everybody's bad and everybody's tough 

but how many people are intelligent enough 

to open up their eyes and see through the lies 

discipline themselves, yourself to stay alive? 

not many 

That's why the universe sent me today on this stage 

with this to to say 

the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer 

and in the final hour many heads will lose power 

what does the rich versus the poor really mean? 

psychologically it means you got to pick your team 

when someone says the rich gets richer 

visualize wealth and put yourselves in the picture 

the rich get richer, cause they work towards rich 

the poor get poorer, cause their minds can't switch from the ghetto 

let go, it's not a novelty 

you could love your neighborhood without loving poverty 

follow me, every mother, father, son, daughter 

there's no reason to fear the New World Order 

we must order the whole new world to pay us 

the New World Order and the old state chaos 

the Big Brother watching over you, is a lie you see 

Hip-Hop could build it's own secret society 

but first you and I got to unify 

stop the negativity and control our creativity 

the rich is getting richer, so why we ain't richer? 

could it be we still thinking like niggas? 

educate yourselves, make your world view bigger 

visualize wealth and put yourselves in the picture!