Necessary - Boogie Down Productions

When some get together and think of rap they tend to think of violence

But when they are challenged on some rock group the result is always silence

Even before the rock and roll era violence played a big part in music

Its all according to your meaning of violence and how or in which way you use it

No its not violent to show in movies the destruction of the human body

But yes of course its violent to protect yourself at a party

And oh no its not violent when under the christmas tree is a look-alike gun

But yes of course its violent to have an album like krs-one

By all means necessary its time to end the hypocrisy

What I call violence I cant do but your kind of violence is stopping me

By all means necessary the rap audience must grow up

The same type of fightin we do they do except weve got nothing to blow up

It doesn＇t matter if you win or lose its only how good you play the game

This is the oldest sneak attack because it takes away our senses to gain

If all I do is play the game then I am just mediocre

We strive to be the best we can be not to just get over

Some people say that life on a whole is serious and nothing is funny

Thats only if you base your life around competition and money

Yeah Im making some money hes making some money but none of these things are necessities

What I find to be a necessity is controlling a positive destiny

With this money fame glory and credit will come in time

The people down with me know this every minute they hear me sayin rhymes

I got some friends I got some allies like stet and big daddy kane

They know that by all means necessary that peace is the name of this game

Whether peace by war or peace by peace the reality of peace is scary

But we must get there one way or another by all means necessary