Watch as the room rocks
Mentally moonwalk
Mixed media slang
Banging in your boom box verbal violence
Lyrical stylist
In a time when rock hip hop rhymes are childish
You can’t tempt me with rhymes that are empty
Rapping to a beat doesn’t make you an emcee
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 emcee if someone else writes your lines
And rapping 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 want to be an emcee you’ve got to study the skill
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Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Bring it to you every time like
this? [2x]
Step, step up, step, step up

[Mike Shinoda]
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
Sounding like the only hip hop you’ve heard is top 40
And your [bad word] is completely
missing it
All the kids are dissing it for not being legitimate
So in a battle you can’t hack it
React with whack [bad word] And get smacked with verbal back flips
Get your [bad word] kicked by fabulous
battle catalysts
It’s taken decades for emcees
to establish this
You’re new to hip hop and [bad word] if your serious
But not on the mic
Leave that to the experienced

(Using the waves of sound the [bad word] master paralyzes his opponents, leaving
him vulnerable to attack)
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(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 [bad word] of the human body, and the question must be asked.)
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