Linkin Park - Step Up (1999 Demo)

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 cant tempt me with rhymes that are empty Rapping to a beat doesnt make you an emcee With your lack of skill and facility Youre killing me And a DJ in the group just for credibility I heard that some of you are getting help with your rhymes Youre not an emcee if someone else writes your lines And rapping over rock doesnt make you a pioneer Cause rock and hip hop have collaborated for years But now theyre getting randomly mixed and matched up All after a fast buck and all the tracks suck So how does it stack up? None of its real You want to be an emcee youve got to study the skill Who can rock a rhyme like this? Bring it to you every time like this? [2x] Step, step up, step, step up So you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity But mentally you dont have the hip hop energy With a tendency to make up stories Sounding like the only hip hop youve heard is top 40 And your record company 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 shit And get smacked with verbal back flips Get your ass kicked by fabulous battle catalysts It's taken decades for emcees to establish this Youre new to hip hop and welcome if your serious But not on the mic Leave that to the experienced (Using the waves of sound the true master paralyzes his opponents, leaving him vulnerable to attack) [Chorus (2x)] (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 structure of the human body, and the question must be asked.) [Chorus (2x)]