Knowledge is King

By Kool Moe Dee

On Knowledge is King

Released on May 30, 1989

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[Verse 1]

I'm not goin', I'm gone

Up, up, up and away and I'm on

A higher plane with a brain with a flame

Feel the fire, desire the same

Knowledge and wisdom and understanding

Possessed by gods, transferred to man in

A script or a book or a scripture that looks

Like a Biblical writing, inviting a hook

Of a song, sing along with a strong subliminal

Message divesting all men from criminal

Acts of the Devil, revealed and reveled

Designed to decline the mind to lower level

Read the Holy Qur'an or the Bible

Because it's liable to be your revival

For the weak that seek power it'll bring

Infallible power, knowledge is king


[Verse 2]

Now who wants some? Come get it

A battle is a test of wits and I'm witted

Hard beats a torch and I lit it

Set the world on fire, I did it

Now that it feels good, I'm heating up

I feed off knowledge and can't eat enough

'Cause knowledge is infinite, suckers ain't into it

Ignorance is bliss and they're kin to it

They party and dance and don't ever glance

At a book or look for their mind to advance

Caught in a rut chasing butt

Tryna get a dollar or a nut

Evil feeds off a source of apathy

Weak in the mind and of course you have to be

Less than a man, more like a thing

No knowledge or nothing, knowledge is king


[Verse 3]

My knowledge comes from a spiritual force

Stronger than any earthly source

Of propaganda, hype or slander

I don't believe the hype, I understand the

Media dictates the mind in rotate

The way you think, it syncopates slow-paced brains

Can't maintain, ascertain

Insipid, inane, crass, vain

Insane lame traditions

All praise fame positions

Wanna be a star, drive a big car

Live bourgeois and don't know who you are

Lost in the sauce and praising the dollar

Whether your faith is Christ or Allah

The knowledge of God will teach one thing

The dollar is moot, knowledge is king


[Verse 4]

My rhymes make a weak mind anorexic

You can't hang without slang so eject it

I've selected rhymes for records

To affect the effect of the rhyme that left it

Hangin' like a pound that can't come down

But you're hanging in the brain so your brain is hell-bound

Lost and found by the serpent sound

"What you don't know can't hurt", that's profound

Absurd's a better word

An ignorant fool is a real cool nerd

Your pockets are fat with an empty head

Got a little bit fame and a name and you're brain dead

You count dollars so you think you're in

You know how to count but you don't know when

Add history today and it will equal the future

Repetitive mistakes because the brain ain't acute

You need knowledge to understand the concept of sacrifice

But we don't understand so we have to fight

War, killing people we never saw before

Some don't even know what they're killing for

Following rulers instead of the prophets

The wicked can rule ya but the knowledge can stop it

Souls can't be controlled 'cause it's a spiritual thing

But you got to have knowledge, knowledge is king


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