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Temple Tactics

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: KRS One Canonical path: /krs-one/temple-tactics Related lyric paths: 6
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Temple Tactics

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All rise!

From around the way to around the world

The ever-sinner of Matthew Netta, gets it together

Every time I manifest the vocals we think

My voice is registered with your local presinct

I lead through knowledge, you don't see me till college

KRS-One is like that oatmeal porridge

When you get older and you realise you need it

That's when you retrieve it, now class be seated

This Boogie Down lingo is produced by Domingo

Wild styles I bring you, now go re-write your single

My last name should be Kringle for the gift

On the drummachine I program songs like Steve Smith

Don't Rif, Kin, you're not loud

you're not listening, I self-create my position

Any room I enter I transform to a church

Before you see through battle you should do some research

For we break

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-Has more rhymes than a train has tracks

-Able to leave sucker MC's in a single rhyme

Break-over, take-over, total make-over

When I rap it slabs a flack on your Range Rover

You's a joke clown plus you broke down

Like a coat of a cardigan KRS-One be flowing at your party

Your whole crew jetting they be seriously threating

My lyric weapon be upsetting the jamsession

Gather round now for a very important lesson

KRS-One is not the one you should be testing

No guessing, we follow strict mathematics

Temple tactics and word magic

So step up if you wanna get hurt

All year around our shows be worth

The force I observe lifts up your skirt

Leave your space cabin Captain Kirk covered in dirt

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-Has more rhymes than a train has tracks

-Able to leave sucker MC's in a single rhyme [x2]

You got the long lasting, floors matching without asking

Rhymes with a passion, KRS-One, broadcasting

Never crashing cos I'm never speeding

You should be heading, what do you trick and I be reading

Leading the new school, with new rules for new fools

Flash styles and young MC's it makes they crews drool

Some say you cruel when I bust off like a new tool

Making a man you do as I drop two jewels

Positive and negative, mutualist disadditive, but I'm not giving it

The Godess is my relative, knowledge I be living it

I creep with it, come to elect ya and you'll witness it

Lyrics I'll be flicking it

Don't step this way if you begin in it

Push your hands up if you've been in it

Let me now get into it, straight rhymes hit the innercit'

When it splatter they say "Damn, those rappers"

Switching ya, fixing a glitch in ya

Pulling the bitch in ya out, taking a bum a ridiculour route

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-Has more rhymes than a train has tracks

-Able to leave sucker MC's in a single rhyme [x4]

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