Step Up
Watch as the room rocks,
mentally moonwalk.
[With] 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.
[If] you want to be an emcee, you’ve got to study the skill.
[Chorus:]
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 shit
and get smacked with verbal back flips.
Get your ass 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)]
