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 (bullshit)
 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 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
 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
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 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!
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 Step up to the microphone
 And you do it like this
 And you do it like this
 Step up to the microphone
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 And you do it like this
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 Step up the microphone
 And you do it like this
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 Step up the microphone
 
 And you do it like this