Linkin Park Lyrics

Album: Hybrid Theory (EP)

Step Up Lyrics

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 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)]