Well my ladies and gentlemen
This is a rapsession and my name is KRS-One!
And when I talk about Hip-Hop Music!, I know
[Kris]
One : Breaking or breakdancing
Rally b-boying, freestyle or streetdancin`
Two : MC`ing or rap
Divine speech what I`m doing right now no act
Three: Grafitti art or burning bombin`
Taggin`, writin`, now you`re learning! uh!
Four : DJ`ing, we ain`t playing!
{*scratch*} You know what I`m saying!
Five : Beatboxing
Give me a {*beatboxin*} Yes and we rockin`!
Six : Street fashion, lookin` fly
Catchin` the eye while them cats walk on by
Seven: Street language, our verbal communication
Our codes throughout the nation
Eight: Street knowledge, common sense
The wisdom of the elders from way back whence
Nine : Street entrepreneur realism
No job, just get up call `em and get `em
Here`s how I`m tellin` it, all 9 Elements
We stand in love, no we`re never failing it
Intelligent? No doubt
Hip-Hop? We`re not selling it out, we`re just lettin` it out
If you`re checkin` us out this hour, we teatchin` hip-hop
Holy integrated people have it, I`m the present power!
[Chorus]
Rap is something you do!
3x Hip-Hop is something you live! *scratched*
Rap is something you do!
Hip-Hop is something you live! *scratched*
[Kris]
Skaters, BMX-bike riders rock
Don`t you ever stop! You are hip-hop
You doing the same things we did on our block in the suburbs
You know you be packing that black block
Selling that crackrock and ecstacy
Gettin` pissydrunk, fallin` out next to me
But like I told those in the ghettoes
Here`s the facts! True hip-hop is so much more than that
Some much more than rap, so much more than beats
Hip-hop is all about victory over the streets
What you see on TV is a lie
That`s not something you wanna live or pattern your life by
But, huh that`s too much preachin` ain`t it?
You don`t want the ?education?, you wanna be dead on the pavement
Well, so be it, some of ya`ll ain`t gonna see it
Others wanna enslave your mind! Kris wanna free it!
[Chorus]
Rap is something you do!
5x Hip-Hop is something you live! *scratched*
Oh yea *scratched* --- From P is dead
I have spent my whole life livin`, talk to the fullest, no doubt
[Kris]
You know that`s why these rappers can`t hang
Cause the essence of hip-hop is not a material thang
They so careless, hip-hop is in a {?} we give
Rap we do, hip-hop we live
How many times I gotta say it? How the radio ain`t gonna play it
And you hip-hoppers sit back and okay it
Think about it! (think about it)
The present course of action, we have got to reroute it!
[Chorus: repeat 3X]
Hip-Hop is something you live!
