Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy (Official HD Video)

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(children indistinct voices) - [Voiceover] So you're a philosopher? - [Philosopher] Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes. (record scratching) (lively hip-hop music) I think very deeply. I think very deeply. I think very deeply. I think. (record scratching) I think, I think very deeply. ♪ In about four seconds, a teacher will begin to speak. ♪ - [Philosopher] I think very deeply. ♪ Let us begin, what, where, why or when ♪ ♪ Will all be explained like instructions to a game ♪ ♪ See I'm not insane, in fact I'm kind of rational ♪ ♪ When I be asking you, Who is more dramatical ♪ ♪ This one or that one, the white one or the black one ♪ ♪ Pick the punk, and I'll jump up to attack one ♪ ♪ KRS-One is just the guy to lead a crew ♪ ♪ Right up to your face and diss you ♪ ♪ A lot of suckers would like to forget me ♪ ♪ But they can't, 'cause like a champ I have got a record ♪ ♪ Of knocking out the frauds in a second ♪ ♪ On the mic, I believe that you should get loose ♪ ♪ I haven't come to tell you I got juice ♪ ♪ I just produce, create, innovate on a higher level ♪ ♪ I'll be back, but for now just seckle ♪ (lively hip-hop music) ♪ In about four seconds, a teacher will begin to speak. ♪ ♪ I'll play the nine and you play the target ♪ ♪ You all know my name so I guess I'll just start it ♪ ♪ Or should I say start this, teaching I'm the artist ♪ ♪ Styles and new concepts at their hardest ♪ ♪ Yo, 'cause I'm a teacher and Scott is a scholar ♪ ♪ It ain't about money 'cause we all make dollars ♪ ♪ That's why I walk with my head up ♪ ♪ When I hear wack rhymes I get fed up ♪ ♪ Rap is like a set-up, a lot of games ♪ ♪ A lot of suckers with colorful names ♪ ♪ I'm so-and-so, I'm this, I'm that ♪ ♪ Huh, but they all just wick, wick, wack ♪ ♪ I'm not white or red or black, I'm brown ♪ ♪ From the Boogie Down ♪ ♪ Productions, of course our music be thumping ♪ ♪ Others say they're bad, but they're bugging ♪ ♪ Let me tell you something now about Hip Hop ♪ ♪ About D-Nice, Melodie, and Scott La Rock ♪ ♪ I'll get a pen, a pencil, a marker ♪ ♪ Mainly what I write is for the average New Yorker ♪ ♪ Some MC's be talking and talking ♪ ♪ Trying to show how black people are walking ♪ ♪ But I don't walk this way to portray ♪ ♪ Or reinforce stereotypes of today ♪ ♪ Like all my brothers eat chicken and watermelon ♪ ♪ Talk broken english and drug selling ♪ ♪ See I'm telling, and teaching pure facts ♪ ♪ The way some act in rap is kind of wack ♪ ♪ And it lacks creativity and intelligence ♪ ♪ But they don't care 'cause their company's selling it ♪ ♪ It's my philosophy, on the industry ♪ ♪ Don't bother dissing me, or even wishing we'd ♪ ♪ Soften, dilute, or commercialize all the lyrics ♪ ♪ 'Cause it's about time one of y'all hear it ♪ ♪ And hear it first-hand from an intelligent brown man ♪ ♪ A vegetarian, no goat or ham ♪ ♪ Or chicken or turkey or hamburger ♪ ♪ 'Cause to me that's suicide, self-murder ♪ ♪ Let us get back to what we call Hip Hop ♪ ♪ And what it meant to DJ Scott La Rock ♪ ♪ In about four seconds, a teacher will begin to speak. ♪ ♪ How many MC's must get dissed ♪ ♪ Before somebody says, Don't (beep) with Kris ♪ ♪ This is just one style, out of many ♪ ♪ Like a piggy bank, this is one penny ♪ ♪ My brother's name is Kenny, that's Kenny Parker ♪ ♪ My other brother I.C.U. is much darker ♪ ♪ Boogie Down Productions is made up of teachers ♪ ♪ The lecture is conducted from the mic into the speaker ♪ ♪ Who gets weaker? The king or the teacher ♪ ♪ It's not about a salary it's all about reality ♪ ♪ Teachers teach and do the world good ♪ ♪ Kings just rule and most are never understood ♪ ♪ If you were to rule or govern a certain industry ♪ ♪ All inside this room right now would be in misery ♪ ♪ No one would get along nor sing a song ♪ ♪ 'Cause everyone'd be singing for the king, am I wrong ♪ ♪ I say yo, what's up, it's me again ♪ ♪ Scott La Rock, KRS, BDP again ♪ ♪ Many people had the nerve to think we would end the trend ♪ ♪ With Criminal Minded, an album which is only ten ♪ ♪ Funky, funky, funky, funky, funky hit records ♪ ♪ No more than four minutes and some seconds ♪ ♪ The competition checks and checks and keeps checking ♪ ♪ They take the album, take it home, and start sweating ♪ ♪ Why? Well it's simple, to them it's kind of vital ♪ ♪ To take KRS-One's title ♪ ♪ To them I'm like an idol, some type of entity ♪ ♪ In everybody's rhyme they wanna mention me ♪ ♪ Or rather mention us, me or Scott La Rock ♪ ♪ But they can get bust get robbed, get dropped ♪ ♪ I don't play around nor do I F around ♪ ♪ And you can tell by the bodies that are left around ♪ ♪ When some clown jumps up to get beat down ♪ ♪ Broken down to his very last compound ♪ ♪ See how it sounds? A little unrational ♪ ♪ A lot of MCs like to use the word dramatical ♪ ♪ Fresh for '88, you suckers ♪ (indistinct voices)
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Length: 5min 0sec (300 seconds)
Published: Thu Jun 20 2013
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