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 

[Kris] 
One : Breaking or breakdancing 
Rally b-boying, freestyle or streetdancin' 
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 [bad word] 
Our codes throughout the nation 
Eight: Street [bad word] 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 have it, I'm the present power! 
 [bad word]  
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* 

[Kris] 
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 ecstacy 
Gettin' [bad word]  fallin' out next to me 
But like I told those in the ghettoes 
Here's the facts! [bad word] 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! 
 [bad word]  
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'", "talk to the fullest", "no doubt" 

[Kris] 
You know that's why these rappers can't hang 
Cause the essence of hip-hop is not a material thang 
They so careless, hip-hop is in an awareness we give 
Rap we do, hip-hop we live 
How many times I gotta say it? How 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! 
 [bad word]  repeat 3X] 
Hip-Hop is something you live!