Knowledge Is King - Kool Moe Dee

I’m not goin', I’m gone

Up up up and away and I’m on

A higher plane with a brain with a flame

Feel the fire, desire the same

Knowledge and wisdom and understanding

Possessed by gods, transferred to man in

A script of a book or a scripture that looks

Like a Biblical writing, inviting a hook

Of a song sing along with a strong subliminal

Message divesting all men from criminal

Acts of the Devil, revealed and reveled

Designed to recline the mind to lower level

Read the Holy Koran or the Bible

Because it’s liable to be a revival

For the weak who seek power it’ll bring

Infallible power, knowledge is king

Now who wants some?

Come get it

A battle is a test of wits and I’m witted

Hard beats a torch and I lit it

Set the world on fire, I did it

Now that it feels good, I’m heating up

I feed off knowledge and can’t get enough

'Cause knowledge is infinite, suckers ain’t into it

Ignorance is bliss and they’re kin to it

They party and dance and don’t ever glance

At a book or look for their mind to advance

Caught in a rut chasing butt

Trying to get a dollar or a nut

Evil feeds off a source of apathy

Weak in the mind and of course you have to be

Less than a man, more like a thing

No knowledge you’re nothing, knowledge is king

My knowledge comes from a spiritual force

Stronger than any earthly source

Propaganda, hype or slander

I won’t believe the hype, I understand the

Media dictates the mind and rotates

The way you think and syncopates slow pace

Brains can’t maintain

Ascertain insipid inane crass rain

Insane lame traditions

All praise fame positions

Want to be a star, drive a big car

Live bourgeois and won’t know who you are

Lost in the source and praising the dollar

Whether your faith is Christ or Allah

The knowledge of God will teach one thing

The dollar is moot, knowledge is king

My rhymes make a weak mind anorexic

You can’t hang without slang so eject it

I’ve selected rhymes for records

To affect the effect of the rhyme that left it

Hangin' like a pound that can’t come down

But you’re hanging in the brain so your brain is hell-bound

Lost and found by the serpent sound

What you don’t know can’t hurt, that’s profound

Absurd is a better word

An ignorant fool is a real cool nerd

Your pockets are fat with an empty head

Got a little bit fame and a name and you’re brain dead

You count dollars so ya think ya in

You know how to count but you don’t know when

Ask history today and it will equal the future

Repetitive mistakes 'cause the brain ain’t acute

You need knowledge to understand the concept of sacrifice

But man don’t understand so we have to fight

War, killing people we never saw before

Some don’t even know what they’re killing for

Following rulers instead of the prophets

The wicked can rule ya but the knowledge can stop it

Souls can’t be controlled 'cause it’s a spiritual thing

But you got to have knowledge, knowledge is king

Knowledge is king

Knowledge

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