Survival Skills

{DJ Revolution cuts and scratches}

(SKILLS!)

"Microphones are not for these emcees who don't have no"

"Survival!" "SKILLS!"

[Hook 2X: Buckshot]

See what I've been through, see what I go through

If I don't look at you, it's cause I don't know you

Know where to go to, know where to hide

What does it take, nowadays to survive

[Verse 1 - KRS-ONE]

Small-time rappers aren't as dope as us

When you hear rappers in the club, you hope it's us

Back in the days, they used to smoke the dust

But cats kept jumping off the roof too much

So today we don't abuse the Dutch

We use our minds to write rhymes that you can touch

My feet stay planted on the ground

You want that soft pop shit, you better book another sound

We gets down, I know the streets

Y'all rappers got maps out, looking all around

Huh! Y'all want the crown, but why should I battle you

If next week they're gonna put you in the ground?

That's a waste of time; I'd rather blaze a rhyme

On someone tryin to raise they mind

Bucktown, USA (BUCK-TOOOOOWN!) - Boogie Down connect

Yo Buck, what the fuck they gon' say?

[Verse 2 - Buckshot]

Who cares!

They want that pop shit, that soft hip-hop shit

That KRS and Buck not shit - BOY!

Beats bangin on your door like rent time

I invent the rhyme that was meant for your mind orrrr

I get physical, I mean physi-kal

I might lean with a smile and kill you in style

Wow! I am just the smartest MC

I am known as what you call an artist MC

See, part of me be like "Pardon me"

The other half be like, "Motherfuck manners! Bust the hammer"

Damn I, feel like a mattress the way they keep sleepin on me

They don't see I'm the craft-matic

Huh, I spread everywhere, led everywhere

Shot ricochet and bounce back looking heavy, yeah!

And my deadly year, lick machete, yeah

You like professin, but you failin on your test this year

[Hook]

{"Survival!" + "SKILLS!" cuts and scratches by DJ Revolution}

[Buckshot - Outro] (KRS)

Funkmaster Flex, he down wit us (Heh!)

DJ Premier, he down wit us (WADDUP PRIMO?!)

My man Tony Touch, he down wit us (TONY TOCA!!!)

DJ Green Latern, he down wit us

All the Heavy Hitters, they down wit us

DJ Mister Cee, ho down it us

[KRS-One]

Yep, DJ Evil Dee, he down wit' us

And DJ Kenny Parker, down wit' us

Making funky music is a must

Making funky music is a must

I'm number ONE!!!!!