Krs-One & Greenie - T'Cha Student Intro lyrics

KRS-ONE: Welcome to the Temple, class is in session Me, I'm the teacher---asking all questions Question 1 - What am I being?

GREENIE: Y-Y-Y-Y-You a rapper!

KRS-ONE: Wrong! I'm emceeing

GREENIE: What's the difference?

KRS-ONE: Well, it's the unity; The rapper is corporate, the emcee is community

GREENIE: Community rap?

KRS-ONE: It's something like that for emceein' but the question was
'What am I being?"

GREENIE: What are you being?

KRS-ONE: Can anyone answer this? What are you seeing? Can anyone answer Kris?

GREENIE: When you say "What are you being?-- Does that mean you're BEING your emceeing?"

KRS-ONE: Yes! But what I'm being is hip-hop THAT'S what's really gettin' respect on your block

GREENIE: Hip-Hop! ?

KRS-ONE: That's right-- Hip-Hop Last of the human skills

GREENIE: Ahhhh Hip-Hop

KRS-ONE: Let's go further with this pre-meditated worder Kris Parker, the teacher-- I know you hearda All the sciences, makin' instruments out of appliances, showin' you what self-reliance is

GREENIE: but whose rhyme this is? Why's whack emcees in our face like sinuses? You positive like plus, Kris, and they minuses-- Ideas are going through my mind like a Catscan I'm not a white emcee who pretends to be a Black man I was writing rhymes when they invented Pac-Man now my rhyme'z is tight like that suit on Batman You kept it real, Kris, you came out as a rosta; I'm comin' out controversial talkin' 'bout Schvartze Rappers are whack today but I don't need to dis' one My rhyme style is THIS one