Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The French Connection, artist - KRS-One. Date of issue: 31.12.1996
Song language: English
The French Connection |
| Droppin on em like this |
| Pick it up, pick it up |
| You know what time it is when KRS-One comes through |
| Representing all true hip hop culture |
| You know how we do |
| How can they throw you in prison now for long years |
| If in reality the black man doesn’t belong here |
| Have you forgotten how we got to this place |
| Why then are all the jails predominantly the black race |
| If you dont teach me my culture I dont know who I am |
| I dont know the difference between my enemy and my friend |
| So I’m robbin and killin I got nothing to live for |
| You turn my father into a boy my mother into a whore |
| Now I’m hardcore on the Ave |
| Watching while people that got me to walk fast |
| After beatin us, rapin us and robbin us |
| 400 years of that’s what’s inside of us |
| Take a look at me now I’m really your creation |
| A technological anti-human mutation |
| A mutation of a better way of life |
| You first pulled the knife but to heal it will take my whole life |
| I fought no force on this level |
| I listen to bass and treble |
| Thinking that the white man is the devil |
| Cause who could be so cruel like this |
| So heartless, so senseless |
| But I’m taught by the devil |
| To grow up and be a Devil |
| To do the same devilish things on another level |
| However when I act out the mission |
| You turn around and throw me in prison |
| You a sucker |
| If you come from France |
| And you like the breakdance say OHOH (OHOH) |
| And If you come from New York |
| And you like the way I talk say Yeah (Yeah) |
| You can kill a man by taking him out of his land |
| And putting him in a land he really doesnt understand |
| Then teach him to respect Greek mythology like |
| Pythagorus, Ptolomies, Socrates |
| These people are thieves |
| They stole us astronomy, mathematics, all tactics of biology |
| Even the concept of democracy stolen from the king Akhanoton |
| Put down the book, use your brain |
| If you dont know who you are you are clinically insane |
| The board of education can’t see that |
| Well it deserves to get beaten and robbed by black |
| Give me my frame of mind back |
| Give me my culture |
| But you dont understand that cause you a sucker |
| I see Beauval in the house, Collinet in the house |
| Sarcelles in the house, Cercle Rouge in the house |
| KRS-One rocks the mike without a doubt |
| Turning parties out |
| You know what I am about |
| Cause we will be here forever I told you |
| Soldier floods your mind like Noah |
| As you get older you’ve got to pay attention |
| At how you livin hardcore |
| You ain’t a kid anymore grow up, to blow up the spot you’re at |
| Learn the skill and go to the top of that |
| Cercle Rouge definitely rockin in rap |
| KRS-One I got your back |
| KRS-One with the freestyle rhyme |
| Representing Cercle Rouge in France |
| All the graffiti artists |
| We like to breakdance to the MC yes you know that’s me |
| KRS-One down with the BDP |
| From way back you know we take it like that |
| Kenny P and Zizwe, Will-Dee, gods of rap |
| We do it like this, do it like that |