The Gospel of Hip-Hop - MC Lars, KRS-One

KRS-One:

It’s always a privilege to spit with Lars

I’m a reality speaker, forget them cars

I’m learning how to teleport to reach to Mars

When you love this and live this you spit your bars

I spit a quick barrage, switch to ours

Before you get burnt by all these lit cigars

I spit because the time is upon us

Prophecy: education, Nostradamus

Are they the future, or really far behind us

Past perceptions trying to find us and blind us

It’s funny especially when Nostradamus

And none of these prophecies saw the Obamas

Life is a stage and it goes through dramas

So rewrite your script and replace your commas

Life is the crown-work, you’re the farmer

The seed is the idea, Kris Parker!

Everything’s falling apart

(Can't you tell me, can’t you tell me!)

Everything’s falling apart

(Can't you tell me, can’t you tell me!)

MC Lars:

Born in 82, I voted for Obama

It took ten years but they finally got Osama

PAX Americana, going Seal Team Six

Time to heal these kids, Kris I know they feel these riffs!

Hip-hop is the culture I watch it grow and breathe

The iGeneration knows exactly what it needs

We’re keeping our humanity, empowerment through art

Society is changing, evolution starts (you see)

Hip-hop taught me how to be a man

How to find my voice and love everything I am

Inspired by the youth, their knowledge and their passion

The way they shine the light, like Plato did in Athens (teach!)

What this means is that Knowledge Reigns Supreme

Over Nearly Everybody, never give up on your dreams

Clean energy, equality and a cure for AIDS

It’s on us 'cause we’ve got it and that’s why we keep the faith

KRS-One:

The weather’s going crazy

The Earth’s magnetic field is getting wavy

People are feeling more lazy, the future is hazy

In prayer we ask, «Is this the end?»

and God replies, «Maybe.»

The whole system is shaky and unreliable, national debt is astronomical

Poor people find this desirable, screaming «I got money!»

when poverty is

undeniable

The corruption is diabolical, at times even comical

I’m not typical, I’m topical, poetically philosophical

Today’s education is unappliable

I think with my abdominal, life is phenomenal

You make it all up with your optical, every moment is optional

That means anything I think in a blink is possible

MC Lars:

Yo, I’m in a van with my band rocking clubs, rocking pubs

Worldwide and I do it for the love 'cause

I see the light in the eyes of the audience

The elements are heaven sent it’s awesome and it’s obvious

You see, we’ve been graph writing since the hieroglyphics

Breakin' since the dawn of time, 'cause we’re so prolific

It’s that universal rhythm, griots on a mission

Going back to Africa, with stories they were spittin'

Ableton, Serrato, look how far we’ve come

Before we had computers DJs beat on logs and drums

Humming melodies and lyrics I can hear it in my spirit

Peace to Scott La Rock, 'cause he helped to engineer it (legend)

Want to spread the message of salvation over 808s

Digital humanities, we candidly deflect the hate

Let’s work heal the planet — hip-hop — it’s the gospel

With KRS the teacha and MC Lars apostle