Yo Watch as the room rocks Mentally moonwalk Mixed media slang banging in your boombox Verbal violence Lyrical stylist In a time when rock/hip-hop rhymes are childish You can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty Rappin' to a beat doesn't make you an emcee With your lack of skill and facility you're killing me And a DJ in the group just for credibility I heard that some of you are gettin' help with your rhymes You're not an emcee if someone else writes your lines Rappin' over rock doesn't make you a pioneer Cuz rock and hip-hop have collaborated for years But now they're getting randomly mixed and matched up All after a fast buck And all the tracks suck So how does it stack up? None of its real You wanna be an emcee? You gotta study the skill Who can rock a rhyme like this Bring it to you every time like this Who can rock a rhyme like this Step, step up, step, step up So you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity But mentally you don't have the hip-hop energy With a tendency to make up stories It sounded like the only hip-hop you've heard is top-40 And your record company's completely missed it And all the kids are dissin' it for not being legitimate So in a battle, you can't hack it React with whack ****, and get smacked with verbal backflips Get your ass kicked, I'm a fabulous battle catalyst It's taken decades for emcees to establish this You're new to hip-hop and welcome if you're serious But not on a mike, leave that to the experienced (Using waves of sound the true master paralyzes his opponent Leaving him vulnerable to attack) Who can rock a rhyme like this Bring it to you every time like this Who can rock a rhyme like this Step, step up, step, step up Who can rock a rhyme like this Bring it to you every time like this Who can rock a rhyme like this Step, step up, step, step up, step up (After years of painstaking research by the world's leading sound scientists We here at the sound institute have invented a reliable audio weapon system Actual movement of musical sound in space is used to carefully attack And neutralize the cellular structure of the human body So the question must be asked) Who can rock a rhyme like this Bring it to you every time like this Who can rock a rhyme like this Step, step up, step, step up Who can rock a rhyme like this Bring it to you every time like this Who can rock a rhyme like this Step, step up, step, step up, step up (Mixed media) (Mixed media) (Mixed media) Step up to the microphone And you do it like this And you do it like this Step up to the microphone (Mixed media) And you do it like this (Mixed media) Step up to the microphone And you do it like this (Mixed media) Step up to the microphone And you do it like this
[00:06.50]Yo [00:07.72]Watch as the room rocks [00:09.03]Mentally moonwalk [00:10.11]Mixed media slang banging in your boombox [00:12.52]Verbal violence [00:13.51]Lyrical stylist [00:14.78]In a time when rock/hip-hop rhymes are childish [00:17.40]You can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty [00:19.52]Rappin' to a beat doesn't make you an emcee [00:21.86]With your lack of skill and facility you're killing me [00:24.12]And a DJ in the group just for credibility [00:26.64]I heard that some of you are gettin' help with your rhymes [00:29.16]You're not an emcee if someone else writes your lines [00:31.46]Rappin' over rock doesn't make you a pioneer [00:33.87]Cuz rock and hip-hop have collaborated for years [00:36.33]But now they're getting randomly mixed and matched up [00:38.80]All after a fast buck [00:39.74]And all the tracks suck [00:41.02]So how does it stack up? [00:42.21]None of its real [00:43.28]You wanna be an emcee? [00:44.42]You gotta study the skill [00:46.02]Who can rock a rhyme like this [00:48.10]Bring it to you every time like this [00:50.80]Who can rock a rhyme like this [00:53.14]Step, step up, step, step up [00:55.33]So you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity [00:58.07]But mentally you don't have the hip-hop energy [01:00.59]With a tendency to make up stories [01:02.40]It sounded like the only hip-hop you've heard is top-40 [01:05.12]And your record company's completely missed it [01:07.65]And all the kids are dissin' it for not being legitimate [01:10.15]So in a battle, you can't hack it [01:11.76]React with whack ****, and get smacked with verbal backflips [01:14.75]Get your ass kicked, I'm a fabulous battle catalyst [01:17.34]It's taken decades for emcees to establish this [01:19.77]You're new to hip-hop and welcome if you're serious [01:22.09]But not on a mike, leave that to the experienced [01:24.56](Using waves of sound the true master paralyzes his opponent [01:31.11]Leaving him vulnerable to attack) [01:34.00]Who can rock a rhyme like this [01:36.07]Bring it to you every time like this [01:38.80]Who can rock a rhyme like this [01:41.27]Step, step up, step, step up [01:43.65]Who can rock a rhyme like this [01:45.74]Bring it to you every time like this [01:48.41]Who can rock a rhyme like this [01:50.81]Step, step up, step, step up, step up [02:31.88](After years of painstaking research by the world's leading sound scientists [02:36.92]We here at the sound institute have invented a reliable audio weapon system [02:41.74]Actual movement of musical sound in space is used to carefully attack [02:46.10]And neutralize the cellular structure of the human body [02:49.30]So the question must be asked) [02:50.78]Who can rock a rhyme like this [02:52.88]Bring it to you every time like this [02:55.31]Who can rock a rhyme like this [02:57.60]Step, step up, step, step up [03:00.34]Who can rock a rhyme like this [03:02.45]Bring it to you every time like this [03:05.09]Who can rock a rhyme like this [03:07.27]Step, step up, step, step up, step up [03:10.34](Mixed media) [03:17.85](Mixed media) [03:20.07](Mixed media) [03:21.04]Step up to the microphone [03:22.94]And you do it like this [03:27.85]And you do it like this [03:30.72]Step up to the microphone [03:34.64](Mixed media) [03:37.70]And you do it like this [03:39.60](Mixed media) [03:40.31]Step up to the microphone [03:42.47]And you do it like this [03:44.33](Mixed media) [03:45.27]Step up to the microphone [03:49.69]And you do it like this [03:53.68]
