1.
Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party.
Kool Moe Dee
2.
I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.
Kool Moe Dee
3.
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood.
Kool Moe Dee
4.
Any man without a woman is incomplete, and vice-versa she's obsolete.
Kool Moe Dee
5.
The lack of facts holds you back. The odds are stacked against a weak mind.
Kool Moe Dee
6.
I stayed away from drugs, I never smoked a pipe. When I wanna get high, I smoke the mic. I never did white lines, I only write lines, and I ain't sniffin' nothing but the vapors from hype rhymes.
Kool Moe Dee
7.
I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.
Kool Moe Dee
8.
Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.
Kool Moe Dee
9.
The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.
Kool Moe Dee
10.
You wanna know my occupation?
I get paid to rock the nation.
I go to work.
Kool Moe Dee
11.
Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.
Kool Moe Dee
12.
Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.
Kool Moe Dee
13.
Learn your past, find your path.
Kool Moe Dee
14.
You better wake up before it's too late, or they'll be doing your makeup down at the coroner's place.
Kool Moe Dee
15.
I was thinking as I bent over to receive my injection, next time I'm gonna use protection.
Kool Moe Dee
16.
Your mouth smells like my jock strap.
Kool Moe Dee
17.
My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .
Kool Moe Dee
18.
I was always talking about what I could and would do, and you would always make rhymes about the competion even though we werent thinking about competition.
Kool Moe Dee
19.
In the street, your mouth's a beak, big like a bird, and your future's bleak.
Kool Moe Dee
20.
A lot of the old-school artists didn’t even respect what’s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasn’t really respected. The sentiment was emcees only did that if they couldn’t write. The coming off the top of the head rhymer had a built-in excuse to not be critiqued as hard
Kool Moe Dee
21.
Lust is weak desire. A woman without a good head on her shoulders is nothing but a piece of meat.
Kool Moe Dee
22.
My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.
Kool Moe Dee
23.
I don't write, I build a rhyme.
Kool Moe Dee
24.
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 you're nothing, knowledge is king.
Kool Moe Dee
25.
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough.
Kool Moe Dee
26.
LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ass to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L.
Kool Moe Dee
27.
Americanomics works, and I won't argue that is true.
But if the economy is getting better, getting better for who?
Well, if you ask me, I'm doing much worse than before,
With the welfare cuts, I don't eat no more.
So if I did wanna go out, I couldn't go nowhere,
Cause I ate every last one of them reindeer.
Rudolph first, I went down the list,
I got so hungry, I just couldn't resist.
I ate Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Dixon,
Fried them up and then started to mix them.
And before you knew it, they were all gone,
I wonder what y'all gonna do about my reindeer song!
Kool Moe Dee
28.
Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Kool Moe Dee
29.
You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.
Kool Moe Dee
30.
I know the game, it's old and lame:
You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.
Kool Moe Dee
31.
Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to keep up.
Kool Moe Dee
32.
For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.
Kool Moe Dee
33.
I'm on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.
Kool Moe Dee
34.
As I turned around to receive my injection,
I said, 'Next time I'll use some protection.'
If I see another girl and I get an erection...
I'm walking in the other direction!
Kool Moe Dee
35.
Once you understand that there's a spiritual math, add soul to the science and subtract the riff-raff. 24-7-365, cause 9 to 5 ain't alive.
Kool Moe Dee