KRS-One — Same Shit

[Intro] Ladies and gentlemen Its time to kick ass Yeah Same shit Yeah Same shit Wake up [Verse 1] Listen Terrorists and governments play the same game Banks and big business take the same blame Open your brain The Klan and the cops are the same Slave quarters, blocks, and prison blocks are the same They only separated by name Overrated by fame What's in a name? Our colonists is the same People can't really see it Because they're blocked by the name But really Nazi Germany and your black is the same Look Wall Street and Main Street Really that's the same street Drug talk, corporate talk Really that's the same speak Boom bap, boom bip Really that's the same beat A throne or a chair in your home Really that's the same seat I wrote and recorded this album in the same week California and Barcelona Its got the same heat I walk the same street Put no trust in the game Good cop, bad cop They one and the same Same shit [Bridge] You know Listen [Verse 2] Rapper and politicians they want the same thing To kneel before their master and kiss the same ring But Solomon and Selassi them are the same king So from (?) I spit the same swing Ding ding ding, there goes the bell I'm the same as heaven, these dudes the same as hell I'm the same as the plane at liftoff, fly They the same as a rip-off, a lie I remind you Don't let the criminal mind blind you Instead let the spiritual mind find you See I'm you Just twenty years ahead Its to your advantage to hear KRS-ONE and rewind what he said Its the same shit [Bridge] Its the same shit Look [Verse 3] Drug cartels is what sells the medical Drug spots and drug stores are identical Y'all need to wake up and join with the woke folk Ignorance is only gonna keep you with them broke folk KRS is on some cool shit I ain't nothing to fool with I teach more kids than the school gets Game over, stupid Its like we at the eight ball corner pocket And I got the pool stick You can say whatever, me I'm living better and better Getting cheddar, out in Greece getting the feta Up in Catalonia only eating paella Up in Italy getting bread, call it bruscetta I spit They cruise cars, I cruise ships Democrat and Republican, that's the same shit Its the same shit