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LINKIN PARK lyrics : "Step Up"


Watch as the room rocks
Men only moonwalk

Mixed media slang
Banging in your boom box verbal violence
Lyrical stylist

In a time when rock hip hop rhymes are childish
You can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty
Rapping to a beat doesn't make you an MC

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 getting help with your rhymes
You're not an emcee if someone else writes your lines
And rapping over rock doesn't make you a pioneer

Cause 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 it's real
You want to be an emcee you've got to 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
Sounding like the only hip hop you've heard is top 40

And your record company is completely missing it
All the kids are dissing it for not being legitimate
So in a battle you can't hack it

React with whack %#@!
And get smacked with verbal back flips
Get your $$# kicked by fabulous battle catalysts

It's taken decades for emcees to establish this
You're new to hip hop and welcome if your serious
But not on the mic

Leave that to the experienced

(Using the waves of sound the true master paralyzes his opponents, leaving him

vulnerable to attack)

[Chorus (2x)]


(After years of pain staking research by the world's leading sound scientists, we
here at the sound institute have invented a reliable audio weapons system. Actual

movement of musical sound in space used to carefully attack and neutralize the
cellular structure of the human body, and the question must be asked.)


[Chorus (2x)]

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