Hip Hop Rules

[Intro: KRS-One]

Come again down man

This is KRS-One on to wreck RUFF RUFF RUFF 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!

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 1]

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-DMC 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 '89 we gettin' present as an art

Me ask, is it because, we've got the '89 vision?

Whoa whoa whoa!

Or is it because, it's a unanimous decision

Hey hey hey hey

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 2]

I pick up the mic and put down crazy lyrics

I put it 'pon the phonograph so everyone can hear it

You want to sound like me bwoy, you can't come near it

'Cause when I flash a new style, the people dem a cheer it

You get so jealous 'til you just can't bear it

Jealous of Ms. Melodie, me and Derrick

See Derrick 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'ma start yawnin'

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 3]

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 we'll flash a lyric a

Knock the suckers down every time dem hear it, because

[Chorus]

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!

* dub/instrumental of first verse reprised to fade *