"Take It" lyrics
(feat. KRS-One)
[KRS-One:]
It's not about a salary, it's all about reality
I'm all in the academy, exposing all the fallacies
Not who other rappers be, few can go on after me
I know the city's trapping me, watch 'em like my calories
Cats that wanna battle me, they learn of the catastrophe
Don't bring your rapping back to me
Never will you ever challenge me with what you chat to me
Sealed is my anatomy, I do it lyrical mastery, KRS. Oh!
The time has arrived as your wake up call
When I'm rhyming, I'm obliged to shake up all
It be a claat, this will drop the mic and take a ball
Too many part-time rappers that fake and stall
When you see KRS, you will say I'm tall
'Cause no I don't take shorts, not at all
Philosopher, not some trick in the mall
Before rock met rap, I was sicker than all
I mastered this! Few rappers going after Kris
Thirteen albums, you do the math on this!
Obviously, knowledge you have to get
What the ignorant don't know, hell they'll laugh at it
All my college students you know you have to get
Your receipt, I mean degree, it's only facts I spit
Take it, 'cause everyone ain't gonna make it
If you're hearing my voice, you have a choice now take it!
[Will.I.Am (KRS):]
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
[KRS-One:]
I rhyme, for the inner-city
No I don't ask for no praise or no pity
I got the power, you want to stay with me
Further down this lyrical road, it gets tricky
Stay with me! A different type of rapper MC-ing
Seeing is believing but believing is seeing
And seeing is agreeing with the truth of your higher being
So when I'm rhyming, I take time with the minds I'm freeing
The teacher is teaching, the student is seeking
Them hookers be creeping instead of a book on the weekend
I'm looking to nuking 'em all in the dust
They reject knowledge and without the anointing, you rust
Laugh if you must, but trust that I see you naked
You need what I'm giving, but you front and you faking
So like I stated, everybody ain't gonna make it
But if you're hearing my voice, you have a choice now take it!
[Will.I.Am (KRS):]
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
[KRS-One:]
I'll keep on bringing it, singing it 'til your ears is ringing
And steaming, gleaming the dream and true MC-ing with meaning
And see men, we all fiending for the cream and the screaming
A demon got us believing screaming rhyming for no reason!
Every weekend we weaken, discipline is what we needing
But we too busy freaking to understand divine speaking
KRS and BBE, with Will 1X and Phife Dawg, you'll see me
Oh! Oh! It's the real hip-hop
KRS-One, shout out to Scott La Rock
We do it from here to there, every city, every block
And now it's about time we stop!
It's not about a salary, it's all about reality
I'm all in the academy, exposing all the fallacies
Not who other rappers be, few can go on after me
I know the city's trapping me, watch 'em like my calories
Cats that wanna battle me, they learn of the catastrophe
Don't bring your rapping back to me
Never will you ever challenge me with what you chat to me
Sealed is my anatomy, I do it lyrical mastery, KRS. Oh!
The time has arrived as your wake up call
When I'm rhyming, I'm obliged to shake up all
It be a claat, this will drop the mic and take a ball
Too many part-time rappers that fake and stall
When you see KRS, you will say I'm tall
'Cause no I don't take shorts, not at all
Philosopher, not some trick in the mall
Before rock met rap, I was sicker than all
I mastered this! Few rappers going after Kris
Thirteen albums, you do the math on this!
Obviously, knowledge you have to get
What the ignorant don't know, hell they'll laugh at it
All my college students you know you have to get
Your receipt, I mean degree, it's only facts I spit
Take it, 'cause everyone ain't gonna make it
If you're hearing my voice, you have a choice now take it!
[Will.I.Am (KRS):]
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
[KRS-One:]
I rhyme, for the inner-city
No I don't ask for no praise or no pity
I got the power, you want to stay with me
Further down this lyrical road, it gets tricky
Stay with me! A different type of rapper MC-ing
Seeing is believing but believing is seeing
And seeing is agreeing with the truth of your higher being
So when I'm rhyming, I take time with the minds I'm freeing
The teacher is teaching, the student is seeking
Them hookers be creeping instead of a book on the weekend
I'm looking to nuking 'em all in the dust
They reject knowledge and without the anointing, you rust
Laugh if you must, but trust that I see you naked
You need what I'm giving, but you front and you faking
So like I stated, everybody ain't gonna make it
But if you're hearing my voice, you have a choice now take it!
[Will.I.Am (KRS):]
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
Just take it, you need it
We got way more in store, believe me
Consume it, inhale breathe it
(take t-take take t-take t-take take it!)
[KRS-One:]
I'll keep on bringing it, singing it 'til your ears is ringing
And steaming, gleaming the dream and true MC-ing with meaning
And see men, we all fiending for the cream and the screaming
A demon got us believing screaming rhyming for no reason!
Every weekend we weaken, discipline is what we needing
But we too busy freaking to understand divine speaking
KRS and BBE, with Will 1X and Phife Dawg, you'll see me
Oh! Oh! It's the real hip-hop
KRS-One, shout out to Scott La Rock
We do it from here to there, every city, every block
And now it's about time we stop!
Writer(s): Will Adams, C. Parker
