I Been There

[Chorus: x2]

I talk how I talk when I talk cause I been there

I walk how I walk when I walk cause I been there

On your own sleepin in the park yeah I been there

How we really gonna survive? Let us begin there

[KRS-One]

I'm talkin to the little you but, there is a bigger you

The bigger you is spiritual, little you that is physical

KRS is givin you, somethin more than I get with you

I'm hittin you, splittin you, rippin you down with me

You busted that metaphysical rap, at the pinnacle I'm at

I'm down here just to deal witchu cats

I never bleep you, I just remind you that they don't need you

They gonna keep you for as long as they can eat you

But that mic you speak through goes from here to Mogadishu

And how you represent US is the issue

I'm not here to diss you, or dismiss you

But at any moment we can be hit with missiles

[Chorus]

[KRS-One]

How many MC's must get dissed

How many young men must get frisked

How much ice can really go on one wrist

How many shots get fired at a target and just miss

We gonna live like this?

I walk the same path that Ma$e do

But he went in the church, I stayed out to face you

The difference between us is not just man to man

But in fact it's fan to fan

People that buy KRS-One goin places

People that buy your shit, they catchin cases

My people eat, your people cheat

Such is the words you speak and you reap

You can pop that shit if you like

But people that buy KRS-One, they lookin for the light

Like NYCE, Jada, Lizzard, B.C.

Harold, Symone, Server yo man see me

[Chorus]