KRS-ONETHE TEACHAA trip into the black

struggle!

KRS-One Up-Bringing Lawrence Parker Born in 1965 in Park Slope, Brooklyn Left home to become MC and a philosopher at age 14 He ended up in a homeless shelter in the South Bronx Lawrence was righting graffiti at the time with the

name KRS-One(Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone)

While at his shelter he had counselor named Scott Sterling better known as “DJ Scott La Rock”

Together they created Boogie Down Productions in 1987 releasing their first album “Criminal Minded”

KRS-One’s achievements He was not a gangster rapper, he looked

at his work as “rebellious music” Introduced hip-hop to a reggae style of

rap(Shabba Ranks album) Scott La Rock dies, he joins Jive records

makes “My Philosophy” He got a “Lifetime Achievement Award”

from BET Hip Hop awards in 2007

Black Cop Buck buck buck-buck-buck, buck-buck buck buck! All rude bwoy lissen up! Black cop!! Black cop black cop black cop Stop shootin black people, we all gonna drop You don't even get, paid a whole lot So take your M-60 and put it 'pon lock! Take your four-five and you put it 'pon lock! Lookin for your people when you walk down a block Here in America you have drug spot They get the black cop, to watch the drug spot The black drug dealer just avoid black cop They're killin each other on a East Coast block Killin each other on a West Coast block White police, don't give a care about dat Dem want us killin each other over crack Anyway you put it it's a black on BLACK Black cop black cop black cop Black cop black cop black cop Thirty years, there were no black cops You couldn't even run, drive round the block Recently police trained black cop To stand on the corner, and take gunshot This type of warfare isn't new or a shock It's black on black crime again nonSTOP Black cop!! Black cop black cop Black cop black cop black cop

"Don't be the sucker.. Don't be the sucker comin into my face.. Don't be the sucker.."

Here's what the West and the East have in common Both have black cops in cars profilin Hardcore kids in the West got stress In the East we are chased by the same black beast The black cop is the only real obstacle Black slave turned black cop is not logical But very psychological, haven't you heard? It's the BLACK COP killin black kids in Johannesburg Whassup black cop, yo, whassup?! Your authorization says shoot your nation You wanna uphold the law, what could you do to me? The same law dissed the whole black community You can't play both sides of the fence 1993 mad kids are gettin tense Black cop!! Black cop black cop black cop Stop shootin black people we all gonna drop You don't even get, paid a whole lot Take your four-five and you put it 'pon lock! Take your M-60 and put it 'pon lock! Take your uzi, put it 'pon lock! Black cop black cop black cop Black cop black cop black cop

Black cop meaning KRS-One is bringing up a stand point that there

are black cops killing black people in the ghetto He says whites look at is as black on black

crime which was what they wanted(wanted blacks to turn on each other)

KRS-One also says that they have a “black cop watching the crack spot”

The meaning behind that is that having a under cover black cop can get into a circle of drug trade and bust everyone.(cause he is black)

Stop The Violence Worldwide B.D.P. are the freshest Worldwide, worldwide, worldwide

One, two, three, the crew is called B.D.P. And if you want to go to the tip top Stop the violence in hip-hop, Y O

Time and time again, as I pick up the pen As my thoughts emerge, these are those words I glance at the paper to know what's going on Someone's doing wrong, the story goes on Mary Lue's had a baby someone else

decapitated The drama of the world shouldn't keep us so

frustrated I look, but it doesn't coincide with my books Social studies when I speak upon political crooks It's just the presidents, and all the money they

spent All the things they invent and how the house is

so immaculate

They paid missiles, my family's eating gristle Then they get upset when the press blows the

whistle Of course the main profiles are kept low You temper with some jobs, now the press is

controlled Not only newspapers, but every single station You only get to hear the president is on vacation But ehrm, stay calm, there's no need for alarm You say go back to your mom, and you're off to

Vietnam You shoot to kill, come back and you're a

veteran

But how many veterans are out there pedaling? There's no telling, 'cause they continue selling As quiet as it's kept, I won't go into depth You can talk about Nigeria, people used to laugh

at ya Now I take a look, I say U.S.A. for Africa?

What's the solution, to stop all this confusion? Rewrite the constitution, change the drug which

you're using Rewrite the constitution or the emancipation,

proclamation We fight inflation, yet the president's still on

vacation

B.D.P. posse I say "One two three, the crew is called B.D.P.

And if you wanna go to the tip top Stop the violence in the hip-hop, Y O" Find More lyrics at www.sweetslyrics.com

This might sound a little strange to you Well here's the reason I came to you We gotta put our heads together, and stop the

violence 'Cause real bad boys move in silence When you're in a club, you come to chill out Not watch someones blood just spill out That's what these other people want to see Another race fight endlessly You know we're being watched, you know we're

being seen

Stop the Violence Meaning KRS-One is talking about how the gov.

has control over everything The gov. has money to buy weapons for

war but people in the hood are still living poorly

He also says that black people went back to vietnam and came back and kept selling drugs

Going to war was looked at as a opportunity but the government was doing little for the people who came out of war.

Facts Behind the Song For the Vietnam War the U.S. spent 700

billion dollars Only 500 million was getting spent to

help save the South Bronx Drugs were coming in by the load from

the Vietnam war and cocaine was booming in the 70’s and 80’s.

Sorces http://

wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_was_spent_on_the_Vietnam_war

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9904.worth.bronx.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRS-One http://www.lyricsdepot.com/krs-one/black-cop.html

http://www.communityconsciousculturalevents.com/krs-one_stop_the_violence

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/krs-one-biography/fe636a3170d3e44c482568c8002fa6d6