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