Watch as the room rocks Mentally moonwalk Mixed media slang bangin' in your boombox Verbal violence Lyrical stylist In a time when rock/hip-hop rhymes are childish You can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty Rappin' 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 rappin' over rock doesn't make you a pioneer 'Cause rock and hip-hop been collaboratin' 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 wanna be an MC you gotta study the skill
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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 missin' it And all the kids are dissin' it for not bein' legitimate
So in a battle you can't hack it React with whack shit And get smacked with verbal backflips Get your ass kicked with a fabulous battle catalyst It's taken decades for MCs to establish this You're new to hip-hop And welcome if your serious But not on the mic - leave that to the experienced
(spoken) Using waves of sound, the true master paralyzes his opponet, leaving him vulnerable to attack.
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(spoken) After years of painstaking 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 is Used to carefully attack And neutralize the cellular structure of the human body The question must be asked...
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(spoken) 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 Mixed media ...and you do it like this Mixed media Step up to the microphone ...and you do it like thiiiiiiisssss.......[slow & fade]