KRS-One, Stetsasonic, Kool Moe Dee, MC L

Self Destruction<br><br>Chorus: Self-Destruction, ya headed for Self-Destruction 2X <br><br>[KRS-One]<br>Well, today`s topic, self destruction<br>It really ain`t the rap audience that`s buggin<br>It`s one or two suckas, ignorant brothers<br>Trying to rob and steal from one another<br>You get caught in the mid<br>So to crush the stereotype here`s what we did<br>We got ourselves together <br>so that you could unite and fight for what`s right<br>Not negative `cause the way we live is positive<br>We don`t kill our relatives<br><br>[MC Delight (Stetsasonic)]<br>Pop pop pop<br>when it`s shot who`s to blame?<br>Headlines, front page, and rap`s the name<br>MC Delight here to state the bottom line<br>That black-on-black crime was way before our time<br><br>[Kool Moe Dee]<br>Took a brother`s life with a knife as his wife<br>Cried cause he died a trifling death<br>When he left his very last breath<br>Was I slept so watch your step<br>Back in the sixties our brothers and sisters were hanged<br>How could you gang-bang?<br>I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan<br>and I shouldn`t have to run from a black man<br>cause that`s<br><br>Chorus<br><br>[MC Lyte]<br>Funky Fresh dressed to impress ready to party<br>Money in your pocket, dying to move your body<br>To get inside you paid the whole ten dollars<br>Scotch taped with a razor blade taped to your collar<br>Leave the guns and the crack and the knives alone<br>MC Lyte`s on the microphone<br>Bum rushin and crushin, snatchin and taxin<br>I cram to understand why brother`s don`t be maxin<br>There`s only one disco, they`ll close one more<br>You ain`t guarding the door<br>so what you got a gun for?<br>Do you rob the rich and give to the poor?<br>Yo Daddy-O, school em some more<br><br>[Daddy-O, Wise (Stetsasonic)]<br>Straight from the mouth of Wise and Daddy-o<br>Do a crime end up in jail and gotta go<br>Cause you could do crime and get paid today<br>And tomorrow you`re behind bars in the worst way<br>Far from your family, cause you`re locked away<br>Now tell me, do you really think crime pays?<br>Scheming on taking what your brother has?<br>You little suckers.. you talkin` all that jazz.<br><br>[D-Nice]<br>It`s time to stand together in a unity<br>Cause if not then we`re soon to be<br>Self-destroyed, unemployed<br>The rap race will be lost without a trace<br>Or a clue but what to do<br>Is stop the violence and kick the science<br>Down the road that we call eternity<br>Where knowledge is formed and you`ll learn to be<br>Self-sufficient, independent<br>To teach to each is what rap intended<br>But society wants to invade<br>So do not walk this path they laid.<br>It`s<br><br>Chorus<br><br>[Ms. Melodie]<br>I`m Ms. Melodie and I`m a born again rebel<br>The violence in rap must cease and seckle<br>If we want to develop and grow to another level<br>We can`t be guinea pigs for the devil<br>The enemy knows, they`re no fools<br>Because everyone knows that hip-hop rules<br>So we gotta get a grip and grab what`s wrong<br>The opposition is weak and rap is strong<br><br>[Doug E. Fresh]<br>This is all about, no doubt, to stop violence<br>But first let`s have a moment of silence<br>*Fresh beatboxes*... swing<br>Things been stated re-educated, evaluated<br>THoughts of the past have faded<br>The only thing left is the memories of our belated<br>and I hate it, when<br>Someone dies and gets all hurt up