[ti:Step Up] [ar:Linkin Park] [al:] [by:] [offset:500] [00:07.13]yo [00:08.44]watch as the room rocks [00:09.66]mentally moonwalk [00:10.86]mixed media slang banging in your boombox [00:13.08]verbal violence [00:14.37]lyrical stylist [00:15.60]in a time when rock/hip-hop rhymes are childish [00:17.65]you can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty [00:19.78]rappin' to a beat doesn't make you an emcee [00:22.25]with your lack of skill and facility you're killing me [00:24.58]and a DJ in the group just for credibility [00:27.45]i heard that some of you are gettin' help with your rhymes [00:29.53]you're not an emcee if someone else writes your lines [00:31.94]rappin' over rock doesn't make you a pioneer [00:34.23]cuz rock and hip-hop have collaborated for years [00:36.51]but now they're getting randomly mixed and matched up [00:39.03]all after a fast buck [00:40.55]and all the tracks suck [00:41.78]so how does it stack up? [00:42.81]none of its real [00:43.95]you wanna be an emcee? [00:44.95]you gotta study the skill [00:46.44]who can rock a rhyme like this [00:48.73]bring it to you every time like this [00:50.85]who can rock a rhyme like this [00:53.55]step, step up, step, step up [00:55.93]so you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity [00:57.68]but mentally you don't have the hip-hop energy [01:00.81]with a tendency to make up stories [01:02.94]it sounded like the only hip-hop you've heard is top-40 [01:05.78]and your record company's completely missed it [01:08.33]and all the kids are dissin' it for not being legitimate [01:10.64]so in a battle, you can't hack it [01:12.53]react with whack shit, and get smacked with verbal backflips [01:15.33]get your ass kicked, i'm a fabulous battle catalyst [01:17.49]it's taken decades for emcees to establish this [01:19.97]you're new to hip-hop and welcome if you're serious [01:22.37]but not on a mike, leave that to the experienced [01:25.17](using waves of sound the true master paralyzes his opponent [01:30.90]leaving him vulnerable to attack) [01:34.55]who can rock a rhyme like this [01:37.01]bring it to you every time like this [01:39.35]who can rock a rhyme like this [01:41.72]step, step up, step, step up [01:44.15]who can rock a rhyme like this [01:46.52]bring it to you every time like this [01:48.89]who can rock a rhyme like this [01:51.17]step, step up, step, step up, step up [02:32.60](after years of painstaking research by the world's leading [02:35.79]sound scientists [02:37.58]we here at the sound institute have invented a reliable [02:40.47]audio weapon system [02:42.22]actual movement of musical sound in space is used to [02:45.23]carefully attack [02:46.59]and neutralize the cellular structure of the human body [02:49.65]so the question must be asked) [02:52.25]who can rock a rhyme like this [02:53.41]bring it to you every time like this [02:55.76]who can rock a rhyme like this [02:58.23]step, step up, step, step up [03:00.37]who can rock a rhyme like this [03:02.89]bring it to you every time like this [03:05.27]who can rock a rhyme like this [03:07.64]step, step up, step, step up, step up (mixed media mixed media mixed media [03:22.63]step up to the microphone [03:23.69]and you do it like this [03:28.51]and you do it like this [03:31.44]step up to the microphone [03:38.79]and you do it like this [03:40.13]step up to the microphone [03:42.80]and you do it like this [03:45.99]step up to the microphone [03:47.50]and you do it like thiisss....)