| Oh, do it now, oh, do it now
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| Yeah, we celebrate diversity in the university
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| Everybody can’t be a queen, everybody can’t be a ho and a bitch (Ha ha)
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| Everybody can’t b e a philosopher
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| Some of y’all gotta load up the clip
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| Word up, watch this
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| It goes 1, 2, 3 we the best
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| Knowledge Reigns Supreme, as you can see, or KRS
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| You don’t wanna test the team, why get a vest
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| You don’t wanna be cursed in a verse, by the blessed
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| KRS with the sound for the east and the west
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| Follow no, follow no, follow no, follow no beast on a quest
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| Somebody gotta be fresh
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| Somebody gotta be whack
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| Somebody gotta be the emcee
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| Somebody gotta do the rap
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| Somebody gotta be smart
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| Somebody gotta do that
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| Somebody gotta do art
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| Somebody gotta be black
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| Somebody gotta have heart
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| Somebody gotta be white
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| Somebody gotta do their part
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| Somebody gotta be bright
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| Somebody gotta be up
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| Somebody gotta be down
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| Somebody gotta be the teacher
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| Somebody gotta be the clown
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| Somebody gotta be lost
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| Somebody gotta be found
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| Somebody gotta be in the economy making the money go round
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| Somebody gotta be the president
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| Somebody gotta get down
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| Somebody gotta be hesitant
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| Somebody gotta be relevant
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| Somebody gotta be celibate
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| Somebody gotta be having their sex in a lex for the hell of it
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| Somebody gotta be intelligent
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| Somebody gotta be illiterate
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| Somebody gotta go all the way
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| Somebody gotta go a little bit
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| Somebody got to be an idiot
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| Somebody gotta be belligerent
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| Somebody gotta be hip hop
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| Cause somebody else is living it
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| Somebody gotta be spitting it
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| Somebody gotta be ignorant
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| Somebody gotta be holy
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| But somebody gotta have sin in it
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| Somebody gotta be losing it
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| Somebody gotta be winning it
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| Somebody gotta be flippin' the style I’m kicking just a little bit
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| Somebody gotta be into it
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| Somebody gotta be out of it
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| Somebody gotta be up for it
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| Somebody gotta be doubtin' it
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| Somebody gotta be running it
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| Somebody gotta be all that
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| Somebody don’t even know that
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| Somebody gotta come right here
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| Somebody else gotta go back
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| Somebody gotta be scheming
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| Somebody gotta be a witness
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| Somebody gotta be seeing in the meaning is different
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| Somebody else gotta be somebody, for some else to be somebody
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| Somebody else to run into to wealth, to try to create one body
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| One aim, one God, one destiny
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| I’m not non-violent, you can back up off of me
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| I sip my tea, and cock back three
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| One for Tiny Tim, Mr. Walt, and Evil Dee
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| I hope you all see, the need for unity
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| I’ll never stop speaking about Marcus Garvey
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| Kwame Ture or Malcolm X all day
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| Black leadership today is all play
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| Y’all play, y’all immature black behavior
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| Is worse than being a traitor
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| Do on to others, as you would have done do to your neighbor
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| Big up to my philosophy majors
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| Free Mumia Abu-Jamal from the cages
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| We writes the pages and teach all ages
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| Justice, tell me what we want now
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| Justice, for Mumia Abu-Jamal
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| Or justice for Amadou Diallo
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| Justice, there is no peace without (*Justice*)
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| All dem mercy, now watch this
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| Follow no beast, on a quest
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| Do you hear me?
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| Follow no beast, on a quest
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| Word
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| Hip Hop ya don’t stop
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| Tiny Tim ya don’t stop
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| KRS ya don’t stop
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| Get by us |