KRS One - Know Thy Self lyrics

You ready to go? I'm ready to go

What about y'all, y'all ready to go? (yeah aight yeah) I'm ready to go

Look

[repeat 3X]

Know thy self, and thou shalt know

The universe and God (whoa-ohh-ohh)

God is the mother, the father, the friend

Know ye not that ye must be born again?

What does it mean to be in the world but not of it

It means you want the cars the cash the jewels the house but you don't love it

It means to taxes regulation state law you live above it

It means you a FREE hip-hopper, you ain't nobody's puppet

You don't see no money on me, you see it up in the cupboard

You see me up in Toys'R'Us, with my seeds cause they love it

You see insurance flash out, if my kids pass out

You see seven acres of land where we can all spaz out

To all my fathers that fathered, hold your head up for starters

Teach your toddlers, not to be thieves and robbers

This that other kind of rap, that leads to true hip-hop

There's other kinds of raps, but they lead you to get shot

The choice is yours, you gettin older now

You got a kid comin, how you gonna hold it down?

It's one thing to be iced out and rocked up

What's the point if you're gettin locked up?

[repeat 3X]

Know thy self, and thou shalt know

The universe and God (whoa-ohh-ohh)

God is the mother, the father, the friend

Know ye not that ye must be born again?

It's really time we seperate the young men from the big men

The young girls from the women, whatever the title that fit them

My style designed to open a child's mind when I spit them

I only got a little bit of time to really rhyme and uplift them

You see them brothers talkin about that crime? Forgive them

It won't be long before they words manife