[Chorus: KRS-One]
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We keep showin you, and showin you, and showin you
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This is what it is!
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We gon' flow with you, you know it's true, hip-hop
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This is what it is!
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We keep showin you, and showin you, and showin you
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This is what it is!
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We gon' flow with you, you know it's true, hip-hop
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This is what it is!
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[KRS-One]
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A man once said that the streets are watchin us
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If this be the truth we must keep hip-hop in us
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They'll never topple us
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You done heard them thugs, now it's time to hear from the philosophers
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Buildings fallin, employment stallin us
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Now it's time, the future is callin us
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Television is boring us
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Radio is whorin us, lurin us with a chorus plus
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You can't even trust
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The church, the synagogue, they all deceivin us
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It's time to believe in us
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To believe in a hip-hop lifestyle that agrees with us
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No squeeze or bust (bo! bo!) you find ease with us
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The DJ's, the MC's is us
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The ice we've seen enough
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It's time for hip-hop and this is what it is!
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[Chorus]
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[KRS-One]
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You know we lead a movement, it's called "I Am Hip-Hop"
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Cats debate about it, but I am hip-hop
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Cats wanna talk about but I am hip-hop
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My cats in New York like "I am hip-hop"
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My cats in Atlanta like "I am hip-hop"
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Cats in Miami like "I am hip-hop"
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Chi-Town like "I am hip-hop"
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All over L.A., "I am hip-hop"
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Keep the rawness; the gutter the real
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The movement's growin like corn in the field
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KRS-One was born with the steel
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I'm on top of my game like Shaquille O'Neal
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No surprises, hip-hop come in all sizes
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Now watch as KRS rises up, up-up, up and away~!
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Now you critics mouth shut, got nothin to say
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And that's good for the kids, cause hip-hop
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This is what it is!
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[Chorus]
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[KRS-One]
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Stay focused... focused...
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Stay focused... oh, oh!
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Yeah, uh-huh, focused...
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Yo, look, look! This is what it is
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Y'all need to stop confusin the kids
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Makin 'em think you gotta do a bid to be hip-hop
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Man that ain't it
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Rob a nigga, kill a nigga, man that ain't shit
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How you figure, how murder make you hip?
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You need to hop to the bookstore and look for Kris
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Anything by KRS-One
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Will lead you to peace, to love, to unity & havin fun
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Y'all know, but, some of y'all don't
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And some of y'all won't that's why only some of y'all dope
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The rest of y'all, food for the Gods
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I eat everything but pop's cause I don't eat lard
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[Chorus] except for the very last three words
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This Is What It Is
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| KRS-One |
