What I Know

Mental Candy

[Chorus]

(Let me tell you what I know)

What I know is that stuff's gotta go

(Let me tell you what I know)

Watch me freak this flow yo, c'mon, yeah

(Let me tell you what I know)

What I know is that stuff's gotta go

(Let me tell you what I know)

Watch me freak this flow yo, and check it out now

[Verse 1]

When you become serious about your hip hop

Let me know when I freak a flow that shows you the way to go

Unlike others what they sayin' is irrelevant

While KRS-One appeals more to the intelligent

On January 30th, 1906

3000 Africans were killed by some bricks, they don't quit

British troops to be excact, is called the Bambatha Massacre

This took place in South Africa

May 4th, 1978, they still kill

7000 African men, women and children

Tell the world I told ya

This particular killing took place in Cassinga, Angola

But wait there's others

White democrats murdered 60 more African brothers

This took place in Louisiana

And it's called the Coushatta massacre - know your history

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[Verse 2]

I resemble the herbal when I'm in your mental

I go ungentle, never beginning or ending like a circle

Purple raised emmenagogue from my meditation state

You nift your consciousness when you lift my tape

I'm givin' you these dates tough you'd hate

But to evaluate your own mental state

You're gettin' older not younger

The system keeps you under

Concentrate on living this summer

Check it: 1963, the 15th of September

Four girls are bombed by the KKK

Remember, August 26, 1874

16 Africans are lynched in Tennessee, want some more?

May 14th, 1970

Police killed two African students at Jackson State University

And injured fourteen others

For years America been killing us - sisters, brothers

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[Verse 3]

Give me lyrical skills that build or give me death

When these rappers are out of breath I have two hours worth of rhymes left

You can kill a man by taking him out his land

And putting him in the land he doesn't understand

They teach him to respect Greek mythology

Like Pythagoras, Ptolomies, Socrates

These people are thieves

They stole astronomy, mathematics, all tactics of biology

Even the concept of democracy, stolen from the king Akhenaten

Now logically look, put down the book, use your brain

If you don't know who you are, you are clinically insane

The board of education can't see that

To they deserve to get beaten and robbed by black

Give me my frame of mind back, give me my culture

But they don't understand that because they suckers

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