Step Up (Linkin Park Cover) [Soundcloud Version] lyrics

[Intro: NSASS]
Yo

[Verse 1: NSASS]
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 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? You've got to study the skill

[Chorus: NSASS]
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Take it to you every time like this?
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Step, step up, step, step up
[Verse 2: NSASS]
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 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 sh*t
And get smacked with verbal back flips
Get your ass kicked by fabulous battle catalysts
It's taken decades for MCs 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

[Pre-Chorus: NSASS]
Using the waves of sound
The true master paralyzes his opponents
Leaving him vulnerable to attack

[Chorus: NSASS]
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Take 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?
Take it to you every time like this?
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Step, step up, step, step up
[Bridge: NSASS]
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: NSASS]
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Take 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?
Take it to you every time like this?
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Step, step up, step, step up!