Linkin Park - Step Up lyrics

Yo

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 killin' me
And a DJ in the group just for credibility
I heard that some of you are
Gettin' help with your rhymes
You're not an MC if someone
Else writes your lines
Rappin' 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 wanna be an MC? You've
Gotta 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)
Sounding like the only hip hop
You've heard is top 40 (Top 40)
And your record company is
Completely missin' it
All the kids are dissin' it
For not bein' legitimate
So in a battle, you can't hack it
React with wack shit
And get smacked with verbal backflips
Get your ass kicked by
Fabulous battle catalysts
It's taken decades for MC's 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! Step up!

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!

Mix Media step up the microphone
And you do it like this and you do it like
Step up the microphone mix Media
And you do it like this mix Media
Step up the microphone
And you do it like this mix Media
Step Up the microphone
And you do it like this