KRS One - The Conscious Rapper lyrics

You think this is easy right? (Yeah!)

You think this is easy right? (That's easy!)

You think you got what it takes? (Yeah that's easy!)

Huh, we gon' see.. we gon' see right now (Now what?)

Look

[KRS-One]

So you wanna be a conscious rapper

Can you handle the press and they negative chatter

Can you eat cold platters, and still spit data

Watchin others spit lies and they pockets get fatter

Can you climb up the ladder, and reach the top?

But it still doesn't matter, cause you ain't pop

Can you rock for the love of the art

Can you drop hit after hit after hit and still don't chart?

Can you REALLY stay loyal to God

when your life is full of strife, plus it always seems so hard

Can you handle the criticism

People holdin you up to higher standards, but they don't live 'em?

Can you hear these kiddy flows and laugh at it

But when you spit they callin you arrogant?

You better think about that before you rock to this

Sometimes it's easier to pop your Cris', let's do it!

[Chorus: *sung*]

Think you can do what I do

Think you can step in my shoes

You have no clue what I go through

You never felt my pain

When they attack my name

All because I have spoken the truth

[KRS-One]

To be a conscious rapper ain't a mystery

You gotta laugh when they call you contradictory

The whole industry, you gotta push and pull it

To really get with me, you gotta dodge they bullets

Blaow, blaow, blaow, every day and every way

You critics got somethin to say

At the same time, you gotta uphold Christ

Uphold life, while others flash cars and ice

It could break you down, take you down, make you frown

It could actually shake your ground

But if you love who y