* originally the b-side to "Love Sick" off of Step in the Arena



[Guru]

Now I'm about to get funky.. to somethin that Premier plays

Funky.. we gonna do it this way

I'm gettin funky.. to somethin that Premier plays

I'm the Guru and we'll do it this way

Now give the credit.. where it is due

Give the credit y'all.. where it's due

Now give the credit.. where it is due

Give the credit y'all.. where it's due



I'm heated up, cause I'm seein folks that are so phony

They didn't know me when I was broke and I was lonely

Only a few came to check me, so they come first..

.. and yo our people come next G

We'd go to a club, the Milky Way or the Payday

The outlaw spots, where the music was real hot

And you wasn't there, when the underrated, real MC's

came equipped.. and used to kick slick lyrics

All live, without no lipsync

To a dope crate, building skills from instinct

I'm tired of people, gettin all excited

I'm not trippin on just a thing, but I'm delighted

to let you know, that some others be flim-flammin

I'll let you know, that all this time, we been jammin

So give up the props Hobbes, jealousy's a flaw

If the next man deserves it, earns it, it should be law

So let him pass right through

Because you got to give the credit y'all where it is due



* DJ Premier cuts up "give it to me" *



[Guru]

You know you got to give the credit.. where it is due

Give the credit y'all.. where it's due

Give the credit.. where it is due

Give the credit y'all.. where it's due



Some of the dopest MC's don't really get enough light

Cause their record companies don't really market them right

Most of the people signin ac