Criminal Minded-Boogie Down Productions

[00:00.93]Boogie down productions will always get paid [00:04.62] [00:05.80]We'll take the wackest song and make it better [00:10.75] [00:11.88]Remember to let us into your skin [00:15.31] [00:16.13]Cause then you'll begin to master [00:20.18]Rhymin rhymin rhymin [00:22.24] [00:23.12]Criminal minded you've been blinded [00:25.48]Lookin for a style like mine you can't find it [00:28.10]They are the audience I am the lyricist [00:30.72]Sometimes the suckas on the side gotta hear this [00:33.35]Page a rage and I'm not in a cage [00:36.15]Free as a bird to fly up out on stage [00:38.59]Ain't here for no frontin just to say a little somethin [00:41.15]Ya suckaz don't like me cause you're all about nothin [00:43.89]However I'm really fascinating to the letter [00:46.58]My all-around performance gets better and better [00:49.25]My english grammar comes down like a hammer [00:51.87]You need a style I need to pull your file [00:54.57]I don't beg favors you're kissing other people's [00:57.06]I write and produce myself just as fast [00:59.81]Keep my hair like this got no time for jheri curls [01:03.41]Attractin only women got no time for little girls [01:05.22]Cause girls look so good [01:07.04]But their brain is not ready I don't know [01:10.02]I'd rather talk to a woman [01:11.77]Cause her mind is so steady so here we go [01:15.40]I'm not a musical maniac or b-boy fanatic [01:18.32]I simply made use of what was upstairs in the attic [01:20.95]I've listened to these mc's back when I was a kid [01:23.51]But I bust more shots than they ever did [01:26.00]I mean this is not the best of krs it's just a section [01:28.87]But how many times must I point you in the right direction [01:31.87]You need protection when I'm on the mic [01:34.05]Because my mouth is like a 9 millimeter windpipe [01:35.98]You're a king I'm a teacher [01:37.48]You're a b-boy I'm a scholar [01:39.10]If this was a class well it would go right under drama [01:42.03]See kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent [01:44.66]Talkin big words on the mic but still irrelevant [01:47.35]Especially when you're not college material [01:49.97]Wake up every morning to your lucky charms cereal [01:52.65]Dj scott larock has a college degree [01:54.70]Blastmaster krs writes poetry [01:56.89]I won't go deeper in the subject cause that gets me bored [02:00.51]It's a shame to know some mc's on the mic are fraud [02:03.32]Sayin styles like this to create a diss [02:05.68]But if you listen who you dissin [02:07.31]See I am a musician [02:08.62]Rappin on the mic like this to me is fine [02:11.00]Cause if I really want to battle I will put out a nine [02:13.80]You can see that scott larock and I are mentally binded [02:16.42]In other words we're both criminal minded [02:19.67] [02:40.12]We're not promoting violence we're just havin some fun [02:42.87]He's scott larock I'm krs-one [02:45.24]Never off-beat cause it don't make sense [02:48.18]Grab the microphone relaxed and not tense [02:50.80]You waited debated and now you activated [02:53.67]A musical genius that could not be duplicated [02:56.22]See I have the formula for rockin the house [02:58.60]If you cannot rock a party do not open your mouth [03:01.40]It's that simple no phony cosmetics to your pimple [03:04.22]Take another look because the gear is not wrinkled [03:06.65]The k the r the s the o the n the e [03:09.51]Sayin rhyme for eighty-seven not from 1983 [03:12.32]Well versed to rehearse and my rhymes are my curse [03:14.57]Originality come first but the suckers get worse [03:17.07]Allow me to include I have a very stable mood [03:19.93]Poetic education of a high altitude [03:22.25]I'm not an mc so listen call me poet or musician [03:25.19]A genius when it comes to making music with ambition [03:27.88]I'm cool collected with the rhyme I directed [03:30.57]Don't wanna be elected as the king of a record [03:33.18]Just respected by others as the man with the solution [03:35.74]An artist of the 80's came and left his contribution [03:38.42]On wax relax there's 24 tracks [03:40.98]After years of rocking parties now I picked up the knack [03:43.54]Because everything that flows from out my larynx [03:46.17]Takes years of experience and bottles of beck's [03:48.67]I cannot seem to recollect the time I didn't have *** [03:51.61]Is it real or is it memorex [03:53.54]I'm livin in a city known as new york state [03:56.72]Sucka mc's gotta wait while I translate [03:59.22]I hang with real live dreads with knowledge in their heads [04:02.27]People with ambition and straight up musicians [04:04.83]Although our lives have been so uprooted [04:06.90]I have it included you all get zooted [04:09.08]So take each letter of the krs-one [04:11.45]Means knowledge reigns supreme over nearly everyone [04:13.26]You look at me and laugh but this is your class [04:16.88]It's an all-out discussion of the suckas I be crushin [04:20.74]So now you are awakened to the music I be makin [04:23.36]Never duplicated and also highly cultivated [04:26.05]Don't get frustrated cause nothin has been traded [04:28.67]Only activated it came out very complicated [04:31.42]Not separated from my dj [04:33.29]You see my voice is now faded [04:35.23]I'll see you folks around the way [04:37.04] [04:38.25]Criminal minded [04:39.31] [04:43.69]Criminal minded [04:44.56] [04:48.79]Criminal minded [04:49.80] [04:54.16]Criminal minded