Step Up
(专辑: Hybrid Theory - 1999)
[Mike Shinoda:] 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 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 MC you've got to study the
skill [Mike Shinoda:] 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 [Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington:] 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 MCs 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 opponents, leaving him vulnerable to attack [Mike Shinoda:] 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 [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. [Mike Shinoda:] 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! [2x] Mix media [3x] Step up the
microphone And you do it like this And you do it like Step up the
microphone Mix media And you do it like this Mix media Step up the
microphone And you do it like this Mix media Step up the
microphone And you do it like this