The Message 2002

Uh ha! Uh ha! Another Inebriated beat

You know what time it is

Straight for the street

KRS-One, hold tight! Look, look

Crack - don't mess with that

Speed - don't mess with that

It's whack - don't mess with that

Greed - don't mess with that

Knowledge - yeah, mess with that

God - yeah, mess with that

College - yeah, mess with that

A job - yeah, mess with that

Look look dealing - don't mess with that

Crying - don't mess with that

Stealing - don't mess with that

Lying - don't mess with that

Meditation - mess with that

Forgiveness - mess with that

Education - mess with that

Hip-Hop - we lovin that

I rhyme for respect y'all, intellect y'all

Not sex y'all, move that neck y'all

Correct y'all

Checks y'all, cash y'all, don't last y'all

With cops y'all to blast y'all, harass y'all

Flash y'all as they pass y'all

Through the glass y'all

These videos gas y'all cause they trash y'all

I ask y'all this fact y'all unaired y'all

These cops y'all they scared y'all

They fear y'all they hear

Y'all they hate y'all

Less than 40, 000 a week, they make y'all

Cops y'all with black feet

Livin from week to week

Walk crooked beats in the streets y'all

They greet y'all with the heat y'all

To defeat y'all

It's deep y'all, hear what I teach y'all

And speak y'all

Hate - don't mess with that

Trends - don't mess with that

? - don't mess with that

Revenge - don't mess with that

Truth - yeah, mess with that

Skills - yeah, mess with that

Proof - yeah, mess with that

Build - yeah, mess with that

Wars - don't mess with that

Freaking - don't mess with that

Whores - don't mess with that

Cheating - don't mess with that

GED - mess with that

Science of mind - mess with that

Family - mess with that

Hip-Hop - we lovin that yeah, yo aiyyo, yo

Who seein us

With an overdose level of free in us

They bring the heat to us

They don't really want the beat in us

Take heed to us

While they plottin and schemin

To be deletin us

Best believe in us, they not defeatin us

Them Glocks wanna bust

With twenty-one shots to put the leak in us

So they can bloody the street with us

What does it mean to us

You know what they need from us

Give cream to us

Hide the lies and deceit from us

That doesn't equal us

Who's ready to get in the Jeep with us

Form a fleet with us and take

Back the street with us meet with us

Drop bombs in the street with us

Never saw it comin

Attack on the sneak with us

Thus, they can't compete with us

We flow through your veins like DJ's

When they cut, you'll be bleedin us

I came with Kris to heat it up

Showin my body's the temple

Hip-hop is the lock now put the key in us

Truth y'all, facts y'all, proof y'all

Black y'all time to check this map y'all

Are we goin back y'all?

Let's make a pact y'all

Come together watch your back y'all

Stay in tact y'all

Never whack - gimme dap y'all

Comin at y'all

Headcrack y'all with the facts y'all

Police y'all

On the attack y'all if ya black y'all

So if this is fact y'all, when we rap y'all

Over the track y'all

Why we rap about crack y'all?

That's whack y'all, we trapped y'all

Holdin the gat y'all just to

Kill another black y'all

Clak clak clak y'all, it's like that y'all

KRS-One yo, let's take it back y'all, listen!