Hip Hop Rules

[KRS-One] Come again down, man This is KRS-One on to wreck rough, rough, rough stuff So, we're gonna do it like this now Put up your hands if you love hip hop music like I do, seen? And we gonna do it like this now Listen to the lyrics! Bo! Me say hip hop rule, hip hop rule And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again! Hip hop rule, hip hop rule And these other industries out here cannot take it; we want Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! Rap music, we want the rap music, come again! Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! Rap music, we want the rap music Way back in the days, 1979 Fatback Band made a record usin' rhyme In the same year come the Sugarhill Gang With the pow pow boogie, and the big bang-bang R&B, Disco, Pop, Country, Jazz All thought Hip-Hop, was just a little fad But here comes Grandmaster Flash nonstop And right after Flash, Run-D.M.C. dropped Now, they had to pay attention to the scale Where other music failed, hip-hop prevailed See, rap music has gone platinum from the start So, now, in eighty-nine we gettin' present as an art Me ask, is it because we've got the eighty-nine vision? Whoa, whoa, whoa! Or is it because it's a unanimous decision? Hey, hey, hey, hey That hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again! Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule And these other industries out here cannot take it; we want Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! Rap music, we want the rap music, come again! Rap music, we want the rap music, come down! Rap music, we want the rap music I pick up the mic and put down crazy lyrics I put it upon the phonograph so everyone can hear it You want to sound like me, boy? You can't come near it 'Cause when I flash a new style, the people - dem a-cheer it You get so jealous till you just can't bear it Jealous of Ms. Melodie, me and Derek See, Derek is D-Nice, and I'm KRS-One, ah We'll rock ya in the winter, and we rocked ya last summer You want to battle me, you got to wake up in the morning 'Cause if you're still sleepin', then I'm a start yawnin' Because, ah, hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again! Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule And these other industries out here cannot take it; we want Rap music, we want the rap music, bo! Rap music, we want the rap music, come again! Rap music, we want the rap music, come down! Rap music, we want the rap music Just put up your hands if you like rap music Put up your hands if you like rap music Ms. Melodie, boy, she always on the mixer And D-Square love rap music, ah DJ Doc boy - yes, he's on the mix, and KRS-One'll flash a lyric; we say Here comes Yvette on the lyric and Big Kap, rockin' on the mix, and BDP boy will flash a lyric a Knock the suckers down every time dem hear it, because... Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule And these other industries out here cannot take it, come down! Come again! We want! Bo! Come again! Bo!