Linkin Park - Step Up (1999 demo) lyrics

Yo (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 emcee With your lack of sk** and facility, you're k**ing 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 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 s** So how does it stack up? None of it's real You wanna be an emcee? You've got to study the sk** 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 It sounded like the only hip-hop you heard was Top 40 (Top 40) And your record company's 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 sh** And get smacked with verbal backflips Get your a** kicked with a fabulous battle catalyst 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 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 (After years of painstaking research, by the worlds leading sound scientists. We here at the Sound Institute have invented a reliable "Audio Weapon System". Actual movement of musical sound in space is used to carefully attack and utilize the cellular structure of the human body, so 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! (Mixed media) (Mixed media) (Mixed media) (Step up to the microphone) (And you do it like this) (And you do it like this) (Step up to the microphone) (Mixed media) (And you do it like this) (Mixed media) (Step up to the microphone) (And you do it like this) (Mixed media) (Step up to the microphone) (And you do it like this)