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Step Up / Nobody's Listening / It's Goin' Down (Live)

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Step Up / Nobody's Listening / It's Goin' Down (Live)

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Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Bring it to you every time like this?(like this)

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Step, step up, step, step up

Here we go

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Bring it to you every time like this?(like this)

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Step, step up, step, step up

Keep it up

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Bring it to you every time like this?(like this)

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Step, step up, step, step up

Watch as the room rocks

Men only 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 MC

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 MC 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 MC?

Then help us out y'all come on

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Bring it to you every time like this?(like this)

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Step, step up, step, step up

C'mon

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Bring it to you every time like this?(like this)

Who can rock a rhyme like this?(like this)

Step, step up, step, step up

Mr Hanh

Check this out

Yo, peep the style and the kids checking for it

The number one question is how could you ignore it

LP back in the cut over basement tracks

With raps that got you backing this up like

Rewind that we're just rolling with the rhythm

Rise from the ashes of stylistic division

With these non-stop lyrics of life living

Not to be forgotten but still unforgiven

But in the meantime there are those who wanna talk this and that

So I suppose it gets to a point where feelings gotta get hurt

And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt

Chester:

Tried to give you warning but everyone ignores me

Told you everything loud and clear

But (nobody's listening)

S'right

Called to you so clearly but you don't want to hear me

Told you everything loud and clear

But nobody's listening

This song is called it's goin' down

You ready?

Help me out y'all

When i say it's goin', you say down

It's goin' (down)

It's goin' (down)

When i say it's goin', you say down

It's goin' (down)

It's goin' (down)

When i say it's goin', you say down

It's goin' (down)

It's goin' (down)

When i say it's goin', everybody down

It's goin' (down)

Check it out, it's goin' down

The rhythm projects 'round the next sound

Reflects the complex hybrid dialect now

Detects the mesh of many elements compressed down

The melting pot of a super-futuresque style

The combination of vocal caress

With lungs the gasp for breath

From emotional stress

With special effects

And a distorted collage

Carefully lodged between beats of rhythmic barrage

It's going down

The logical progression on the timeline

The seperation narrowed down to a fine line

To blur the edges so they blend together properly

Take you on an audible odyssey

Now it's going down

A logical progression on the timeline

The seperation narrowed down to a fine line

That's right

It's goin down

Out for the world to see

LP and X-Men to the 10th degree (It's goin down)

Nobody in the world is safe

When we melt down the wax in your record crate (It's going down)

Out for the world to see

LP and X-Men to the 10th degree (It's goin down)

Nobody in the world is safe

Take you on an audible odyssey

Now it's going down

A logical progression on the timeline

The seperation narrowed down to a fine line

We do it like this

Mr Hahn

Make some noise

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