KRS-One - 9 Elements lyrics

Well my ladies and gentlemen
This is a rapsession and
My name is "KRS-One!"
And when I talk about "Hip-Hop Music!"
I know

One: Breaking or breakdancing
Really b-boying, freestyle, street dancin'
Two: MC'ing or rap
Divine speech what I'm doing right now
No act
Three: Grafitti art or burning, bombin'
Taggin', writin', now you're learning! uh!
Four: DJ'ing, we ain't playing!
Scratch You know what I'm saying!
Five: Beatboxing
Give me a beatboxin Yes and we rockin'!
Six: Street fashion, lookin' fly
Catchin' the eye while them cats walk on by
Seven: Street language
Our verbal communication
Our codes throughout the nation
Eight: Street knowledge, common sense
The wisdom of the elders from way back whence
Nine: Street entrepreneurialism
No job, just get up call 'em and get 'em
Here's how I'm tellin' it, all 9 Elements
We stand in love, no we're never failing it
Intelligent? No doubt
Hip-Hop? We're not selling it out
We're just lettin' it out
If you're checkin' us out this hour
We teatchin' Hip-Hop
Holy Integrated People Having
Omnipresent Power!

Rap is something you do!
3x Hip-Hop is something you live! scratched
Rap is something you do!
Hip-Hop is something you live! scratched

Skaters, BMX-bike riders rock
Don't you ever stop! You are Hip-Hop
You doing the same things we did
On our block in the suburbs
You know you be packing that black block
Selling that crackrock and ecstasy
Gettin' pissydrunk, fallin' out next to me
But like I told those in the ghettoes
Here's the facts! True Hip-Hop is
So much more than that
Some much more than rap
So much more than beats
Hip-hop is all about victory over the streets
What you see on TV is a lie
That's not something you wanna live
Or pattern your life by
But, huh that's too much preachin' ain't it?
You don't want the edutainment
You wanna be dead on the pavement
Well, so be it
Some of ya'll ain't gonna see it
Others wanna enslave your mind!
Kris wanna free it!

Rap is something you do!
5x Hip-Hop is something you live! scratched

"Oh yea" scratched - From "P is dead"

"I have spent my whole life livin'"
"hip hop to the fullest", "no doubt"

You know that's why these rappers can't hang
Cause the essence of Hip-Hop is
Not a material thing they so careless
Hip-Hop is in awareness we give
Rap we do, Hip-Hop we live
How many times I gotta say it? How
Long the radio ain't gonna play it
And you Hip-Hoppers sit back and okay it
Think about it! (think about it)
The present course of action
We have got to reroute it!

Hip-Hop is something you live!