DISSNATION
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You Really Don’t Want It

By KRS-One · Targeting Nelly

You Really Don’t Want It is a diss track by KRS-One targeting Nelly. KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

Released2002
Annotated4
ExplicitYes
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Lyrics & breakdown

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  1. 01

    [Hook]

    02

    My rhymes still be ill

    03

    You don't really want it

    04

    I suggest you chill

    05

    You don't really want it

  2. 06

    #1 I'm still

    07

    You don't really want it

    08

    The prophecy is fulfilled

    09

    You don't really want it

  3. 10

    KRS in the streets

    11

    You don't really want it

    12

    I drop the rawest beats

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    You don't really want it

  4. 14

    No ice just heat

    15

    You don't really want it

    16

    Playa face defeat

  5. 17

    [Verse 1]

    18

    That was a nice try Nelly, I don't mean to be bold

    19

    But put that "Hot in herre" bullshit on hold

    20

    And let's get down to the facts of the matter

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    In the dictionary, under whack rap: you the rapper

  6. 22

    It's simply 'cause you're lacking the spectacular vernacular

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    And hip hop's character seems to be in back of ya

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    Either that or you're truly amateur, I'm asking ya:

    25

    How does it feel to have the whole world laughin' at ya?

  7. 26

    You just too stupid to see

    Multi-line diss block
    27

    I was made on the streets, you was made on MTV

    28

    How you gonna talk about my nose to attack me?

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    When you steady guzzling them pills for your acne?

    Block noteTurns the target into a visual punchline

    TargetNelly

    MeaningWhat it means: In “How you gonna talk about my nose to attack me?,” KRS-One reduces Nelly to an exaggerated physical caricature instead of engaging the target's preferred public image. Why it was said: KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition. A visual insult is easy for an audience to remember and repeat; the goal is to make ridicule of Nelly travel beyond the song itself.

    ContextKRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

  8. 30

    My nose comes from a line of kings

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    Your acne comes from you eatin' the wrong things

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    Your words don't make me hurt, they make me work

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    You'll hurt when you find it's you gettin' jerk

  9. 34

    I tell ya, it don't take me to say

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    Don't buy your album, street cats ain't buyin' it anyway

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    You tellin' me make up my mind

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    Yet on your album, you don't know if you wanna sing, or rhyme

  10. 38

    [Hook]

  11. 39

    [Verse 2]

    Multi-line diss block
    40

    You tryna diss me? How?

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    If it wasn't for the true-school your bitch-ass wouldn't be here now

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    Blaow, blaow, show me respect from the gate

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    Or I'mma have to drown you kids like Andrea Yates

    Block noteQuestions the target's judgment

    TargetNelly

    MeaningWhat it means: In “If it wasn't for the true-school your bitch-ass wouldn't be here now,” KRS-One characterizes Nelly as unintelligent, careless, or unable to understand the situation being addressed. Why it was said: KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition. The insult makes the target's decisions part of the evidence: a poor response can be framed not as strategy, but as proof that Nelly never understood the contest.

    ContextKRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

  12. 44

    You can't handle the break, I'm a flamethrower, you a bic lighter

    Multi-line diss block
    45

    You think I'm cocky 'cause you a dick rider

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    I spit tighter, I'm not like all the rest

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    I'm not a playa, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express

    Block noteUses gendered or sexual humiliation

    TargetNelly

    MeaningWhat it means: In “You think I'm cocky 'cause you a dick rider,” KRS-One uses gendered or sexual language to question Nelly's masculinity or humiliate the target in front of the audience. Why it was said: KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition. The tactic tries to trigger an emotional reply and damage Nelly's public image, even though the framing itself can reproduce homophobic or sexist stereotypes.

    ContextKRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

  13. 48

    So nevertheless I'mma teach ya, teach ya

    Multi-line diss block
    49

    But when them slugs hit you, you'll be screaming, "Momma, E.I.! E.I.!"

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    You never seen me sing? You don't know what I bring?

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    You'll be singing the blues like B.B. King

    Block noteImagines the battle as physical destruction

    TargetNelly

    MeaningWhat it means: In “But when them slugs hit you, you'll be screaming, "Momma, E.I.! E.I.!",” KRS-One converts lyrical defeat into death, shooting, burial, or bodily harm directed at Nelly. Why it was said: KRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition. The violent image makes the response sound final: instead of proposing an endless exchange, the artist depicts Nelly as unable to return for another round.

    ContextKRS-One released the track during his early-2000s exchange with Nelly over claims about respect, commercial success, and hip-hop tradition.

  14. 52

    I'm all about the unity of Miss and Misters

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    You all about grabbing money and dissing our sistas

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    Take your ass back to TV land

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    And let this be a lesson, you can't see me, man!

  15. 56

    [Hook]

  16. 57

    [Verse 3]

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    Just when I thought I could do my gospel

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    And become an apostle I got a whole to get hostile

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    I don't mean to knock you Nelly

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    But ain't you that MTV house nigga with a spine like jelly?

  17. 62

    I'mma do this by the book, for the art

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    I heard what you said on BET's 106 and Park

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    But what you don't know, is right around the corner on 3rd

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    I hold a Desert Eagle and no, it's not a bird

  18. 66

    You sound absurd, you gonna bring me back?

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    I taught all year round the [?] [?] [?]

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    You copycat, with sloppy raps

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    You chill with *Nsync, I chill where hip-hop be at

  19. 70

    [Hook]