KRS-One — Opening Remarks

[Intro] Yes I want to welcome you all to the 23rd album Between Da Protests We gon' have to to rise on this ya'll But just before we begin Lemme spit on these cats [Verse] Fake rappers I respect none, DJs too You know my way, we ain't you 5, 4, and three are taken and we ain't two 33 years later, we ain't through Black lives been mattered yo cause we ain't blue Selling out the culture is something we don't do They call me the teacher that be so true Cause I mastered the element of MCing like CO2 We so new, you know what we been through just to survive All this debate about the top five, put it aside Here's the real top five list It's KRS, Blast Master, KRS-One, The Teacher, and Chris Rappers going through some type of identity crisis G-O-D is my image of life 'cause they don't like Chris My mother is Ahset better known as Isis I drop on the set like Horus, where the mic is I'm the difference between what the real and the hype is What the wrong and the right is What the darkness and the light is But rappers want to fantasize about battling me They sleep and I'm over their whole head like a canopy I'm chilling in Atlanta sipping Daiquiris Don't come after me, I rapid fire rap-rap-rapidly It's a catastrophe you not as fast as me OG rappers coming after me, they're in back of me You wanna come after me here's the truth I'm invading your space like [?], let's get loose You can't hang, I got the noose When I train on tracks I'm the engine you're the caboose I'm sipping the Remy Ma while I salute Papoose I don't battle young rappers that's child abuse I'm tightening the noose, put hands on you like a masseuse And De La your soul like I'm Posndous You'll be calling for a turce while I'm cooking your goose Got the deuce-deuce for when you chickens come to roost Man I'm mobile like boost while they're failing So Imma put 'em down under like these dudes was Australian Rappers couldn't see me in the 80's or the 90's Thirty years later they wanna act like they're grimy Now they wanna find me in the new millenium But I'm a cannibal, I'll breakfast lunch and dinner them