Step Up (Hybrid Theory EP)

Yo

Watch as the room rocks, mentally 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 MC if someone else writes your lines

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 MC, 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

And sounding like the only hip hop you've heard is top 40 (Top 40)

And your record company is completely missing it

And 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 MC's to establish this

You're new to hip-hop, and welcome if you're serious

But not on the mic, leave that to the experienced

(Using the 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 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…)

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

Mix Media

Mix Media

Mix Media

Step up to the microphone

And you do it like this

And you do it like this

Step up to the microphone

Mix Media

And you do it like this

Mix Media

Step up to the microphone

And you do it like this

Mix Media

Step up to the microphone

And you do it like this