You know.. life is funny..

If you don't repeat the actions of your own success

you won't be successful

You gotta know your own formula, your own ingredients

What made you, YOU..



1987 I was at the Latin Quarters

Listenin to Afrika Bambaata give the order

The call of the order was to avoid the slaughter

He said, ""Record companies ain't got nuttin for ya!""

Without a lawyer, he taught The Infinity Lessons

In how hip-hop could be a, many a blessing

And that was great, so in 1988

there was no debate, we had to end the hate

The name of the game was ""Stop the Violence""

and unity, knowledge, and self-reliance

We - started talkin bout Martin and Malcolm

Had these ghetto kids goin, ""Huh, what about him?""

1989, Professor Griff speaks his mind

but his freedom of speech is declined

1990 came with the West coast

East coast, West coast, who is the best coast?

Lookin back now, of COURSE it was bogus

The whole argument was where we lost focus

We got hopeless; not with the lyrics and music

but with hip-hop, and how we used it

Or abused it, you know how the crew get

""You like it cause you choose it""

1991, we opened our eyes

with Human Education Against Lies, we tried

to talk about the state of humanity

But all these others rappers got mad at me

They called me ""Captain Human"", another message was sent

""Self Destruction don't pay the {fuckin} rent""

Remember that? Nobody wanted conscious rap

It was like - where these ballers at?

Where can they call us at? All was wack

Hip-Hop culture was fallin flat and that was that

So in 1992, I found my crew

They said, ""Yo Kris, what you wanna do?""

I said, ""Damn - why they wanna get with me?

If I bust they {shit} I'm contradict