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