Song: Knowledge Of Self
Artist: FenaxiZ feat. The RE:Birth
Album: Fenax Iz . . . (The Audiobiography)

[Intro (The RE:Birth)]
“Knowledge, wisdom, understanding” – Jeru The Damaja, “Ya Playin’ Yaself”
(Ha, to all my people keep your head up)
“Keep it real y’all” – Nas, “Gimme Yours”
“Plus spiritual pain can bring forth physical rain
And without knowledge of self, how else can a criminal change” – AZ, Your World Don’t Stop

[FenaxiZ]
Wish I could go back to ’88, my face’d always radiate
Blind to cold facts that I would face at a later date
Tears start when peers depart this thing we call life
It tears my heart when nothing I do can bring ’em to life
From handball on the wall to them hand to hand deals
You stand tall or you fall ’cause it’s man-to-man, fa’real
So my mother pray I live to see another day, it’s probably
Why I’m breathing now since I imagine no other way
Despite a previous creed of sex, money, and drugs
Holy water was Olde E and I guess it’s funny because
Since an infant I would stand out from the rest of my class
Thinking different, I would plan out every test and I’d pass
If it was only that simple, well, we would all be set
I feel bitter like my liver that alcohol would wreck
Then overwhelmed by a spell that fast cash can cast
But now I’m looking at the future to get past my past

[Chorus 1]
“BLAOW BLAOW BLAOW BLAOW BLAOW BLAOW” – M.O.P, “Stick To Ya Gunz”
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”
“Man, listen” – Last Emperor, “Charlie”
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”
“Man, listen” – Last Emperor, “Charlie”
“In school” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”

[The RE:Birth]
The end is near, only begins what we fear of it
Unless the mind’s with architects who built pyramids
Popping raps, thirsting to learn, I twist the cap
Of what time holds, but in turn, I can’t turn back
Like abstract worth one million stars unearthed
From under all these poisons, there still lies a person
Behind the curtains, still lurking the ambition
When the junkie’s no different from a man’s addiction
Of cigarettes, infect, content in the now, no longer kings
Referred non-sensible pimps without the crown
Prefer the strength, take it to length of no bound
‘Cause the scripture lied, truth is found inner
I wanna let freedom ring and wear it on my finger
Stitch the plots, uplift the thoughts of the mental
Beyond the lyrics and merits, the peril and perish
I cherish each to keep sharing their experience

[Chorus 2]
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”

[FenaxiZ]
Please, tell me, God, was this all part of your plan
To teach me a lesson, did you stop the heart of my man
But I ain’t pointing fingers since hell and the devil exists
And I refuse to believe the only higher level is this
Where I wasted years tasting beers, just vexed with sorrow
Dwelling on my yesterdays then I’d empty extra bottles
Going on the next tomorrow, filled with greed and the lust
In this world of lost souls who lace weed with the dust
While some fuck around, catch claps, bleed when they bust
I want a wifey to raise my seeds believing in us
It’s a thin line between who the Mrs., who want riches
So it’s hard to tell the sisters from the bitches (WHAT?)
Pardon, see, my problem be I can’t view women properly
Probably, it’s part of me that was taught pussy’s property

[Chorus 3]
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”
“Man, listen” – Last Emperor, “Charlie”
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”
“In school, knowledge of self would be the focus” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”
“Man, listen” – Last Emperor, “Charlie”
“In school” – KRS-ONE, “Squash All Beef”