Hip Hop Rules
KRS-One / Boogie Down Productions
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Come again-a man
This is KRS-One on a rap 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're 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 can't take it (come now)
Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule
And these other industries out here can't 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 non-stop
And right after Flash, Run-D.M.C. drop
Now, they had to pay attention to the scale
Where other music fail, hip-hop prevail
See rap music has gone platinum from the start
So now in '89 we gettin' present as an art
Me ask, is it because
We got the '89 vision?
Whoa whoa whoa
Or is it because
It's a unanimous decision?
Hey hey hey hey
The hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule
And these other industries out here can't take it (come now)
Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule
And these other industries out here can't 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 now)
Rap music, we want the rap music
I pick up the mic and fling down crazy lyrics
I put it pon 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 that you just can't bear it
Jealous of Miss Melody, me and Derek
See Derek is D-Nice and I'm KRS-One-a
We rock you in the winter and we rock you last summer
We want to battle me, you got to wake up in the mornin'
'Cause if you're still sleepin', then I'ma start yawnin'
Because
Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule
And these other industries out here can't take it (come now)
Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule
And these other industries out here can't 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 now)
Rap music, we want the rap music
Put up your hands if you like rap music (bo!)
Put up your hands if you like rap music
Miss Melody, boy she always on the mixer
And D-Square love rap music-ah
DJ Doc, boy yes he's on the mix an'
KRS-One'll flash a lyric, me say
Here comes Yvette on the lyric, and
Big Kap rockin' on the mix, and
BDP, boy we'll flash a lyric-ah
Knock the suckers down every time them hear it
Because
Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule
And these other industries out here can't take it (come now)
Come again
We want
Bo!
Come again
Bo!
Fatback Band
Sugarhill Gang
Disco, jazz
Drop
Is it because
We got the '89 vision?
Whoa whoa whoa
Or is it because