Linkin Park - Step Up Bass

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Linkin Park
Step Up 
Hybrid Theory EP

(After guitar intro)

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Chorus bass

Who can rock a rhyme like this?
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Complete lyrics:

Yo, watch as the room rocks, mentally moonwalk
Mix 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 emcee if someone else writes your lines
Rapping over rock doesn’t make you a pioneer
‘Cause rock and hip-hop’ve 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, you got to study the skill

Who can rock a rhyme like this
Bring it to you every time like this
Who can rock a rhyme like this
Step, step up, step, step up

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 (top 40)
And your record company is completely missing it
And all the kids are dissing it for not being legitimate
So in a battle you can’t hack it, react with whack ***
And get smacked with verbal backflips
Get your ass kicked be fabulous battle catalysts
It’s taken decades for MC's to establish this
You’re new to hip-hop and welcome if you’re serious
But not on the mic, leave that to the experienced

Using the waves of sound
The true master paralyzes his opponent
Leaving him vulnerable to attack

Who can rock a rhyme like this
Bring it to you every time like this
Who can rock a rhyme like this
Step, step up, step, step up

Who can rock a rhyme like this
Bring it to you every time like this
Who can rock a rhyme like this
Step, step up, step, step up, step up

After years of painstaking 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
And space is used to carefully attack
And neutralize the cellular structure
Of the human body
And the question must be asked

Who can rock a rhyme like this
Bring it to you every time like this
Who can rock a rhyme like this
Step, step up, step, step up

Who can rock a rhyme like this
Bring it to you every time like this
Who can rock a rhyme like this
Step, step up, step, step up, step up

Mix Media
Mix Media
Mix Media
Step up to the microphone
And you do it like this
And you do it like this
Step up to the microphone
Mix Media
And you do it like this
Mix Media
Step up to the microphone
And you do it like this
Mix Media
Step Up to the microphone
And you do it like this