Step Up Lyrics - Linkin Park

1 Yo (yo)

2 Watch as the room rocks, mentally moonwalk

3 Mixed media slang banging in your boom-box

4 Verbal violence, lyrical stylist

5 In a time when rock/hip-hop rhymes are childish

6 You can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty

7 Rapping to a beat doesn't make you an emcee

8 With your lack of skill and facility, you're killing me

9 And a DJ in the group just for credibility

10 I heard that some of you are getting help with your rhymes

11 You're not an emcee if someone else writes your lines

12 Rapping over rock doesn't make you a pioneer

13 'Cause rock and hip-hop have collaborated for years

14 But now they're getting randomly mixed-and-matched up

15 All after a fast buck, and all the tracks suck

16 So how does it stack up? None of it's real

17 You wanna be an emcee? You've got to study the skill

18 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

19 Bring it to you every time like this?

20 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

21 Step, step up, step, step up

22 So you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity

23 But mentally you don't have the hip-hop energy

24 With a tendency to make up stories

25 It sounded like the only hip-hop you heard was Top 40 (Top 40)

26 And your record company's completely missing it

27 And all the kids are dissing it for not being legitimate

28 So in a battle you can't hack it

29 React with whack shit

30 And get smacked with verbal backflips

31 Get your ass kicked with a fabulous battle catalyst

32 It's taken decades for emcees to establish this

33 You're new to hip-hop, and welcome if your serious

34 But not on the mic - leave that to the experienced

35 ''(Using waves of sound, the true master paralyzes his opponent, leaving him vulnerable to attack.)''

36 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

37 Bring it to you every time like this?

38 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

39 Step, step up, step, step up

40 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

41 Bring it to you every time like this?

42 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

43 Step, step up, step, step up

44 ''(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:)''

45 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

46 Bring it to you every time like this?

47 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

48 Step, step up, step, step up

49 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

50 Bring it to you every time like this?

51 Who can rock a rhyme like this?

52 Step, step up, step, step up

53 Step up!

54 (Mixed media)

55 (Mixed media)

56 (Mixed media)

57 (Step up to the microphone)

58 (And you do it like this)

59 (And you do it like this)

60 (Step up to the microphone)

61 (Mixed media)

62 (And you do it like this)

63 (Mixed media)

64 (Step up to the microphone)

65 (And you do it like this)

66 (Mixed media)

67 (Step up to the microphone)

68 (And you do it like this)