The System Gotcha

[Hook] x2

So if you think you're too old

Your thinking that you're too cold

You gave up on your true goals

The system gotcha

I'm giving you a new soul

You're never ever too old

To manifest your true goals

Or the system gotcha

[Verse 1]

You're never too old to sell a key

So how could you be too old to emcee?

I'm from where it originated so get me

Why would I stop what I created, even at sixty?

Shout out to Herc and Cindy

Hip hop lifts me and never left me

You know where KRS be

Right there where the best be

When I spit a free I can't help it if that's how God blessed me

So I'm never empty, writer's block never tempts me

With twenty albums I mastered this evidently

So I ask you gently

You don't see how to spot me on the block with my classic medley?

I can't stop, people won't let me

I don't talk sexy, but I do come correctly and you can check me

But just don't compare me to the next G

KRS-ONE: when you get older you'll respect me

[Hook]

[Verse 2]

I keep it moving all over the country

Doing underground spots with the ceiling above me

I keep it dark and ugly, microphone crusty

We will be here forever; trust me

I rock the spots that be dusty and banged out

I do house parties, raves and gang hangouts

Others took the same route, we didn't take the main route

You know who they are, I ain't gotta call they name out

They superstars, but in 1986 you ain't know who we are

And notice when I said "who we are", as opposed to "who we were"

Cause the past and future already occurred, but it was blurred

Time reversal symmetry just occurred

My being is timeless if the future remembers me

And there's no end to me, word!

Past and future happen at the same time, especially in the memory

We share the same mind. Images of my future telling me the same sign

In 1983 who I'd be in '09, but it's past 2011 and I flow fine

Rapping at 70? Believe that it's no crime

These youngins rent they style, I own mine

As you can see, I don't be relying on my old rhymes

I'm spitting raw rhymes, right here, right now

25 years, I never put the mic down