Linkin Park – Step Up (Guitar)

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[Intro] N.C. Yo... [Verse 1]

G#m
Watch as the room rocks, mentally moonwalk

Mixed Media slang banging in your boom box

E
Verbal violence, lyrical stylist

In a time when rock hip-hop rhymes are childish

G#m
You can't tempt me with rhymes that are empty

Rapping to a beat doesn't make you an MC

E
With your lack of skill and facility, you're killing me

And a DJ in the group just for credibility

G#m
I heard that some of you are getting help with your rhymes

You're not an MC if someone else writes your lines

E
Rapping over rock doesn't make you a pioneer

âCause rock and hip-hop have collaborated for years

G#m
But now they're getting randomly mixed and matched up

All after a fast buck, and all the tracks suck

E
So how does it stack up? None of it's real

You want to be an MC, you've got to study the skill [Chorus]

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

C#m                  F#m
Bring it to you every time like this?

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

A5                  B
Step, step up! Step, step up!

[Verse]

G#m
So, you pick up a pen and write yourself a new identity

But mentally, you don't have the hip hop energy

E
With a tendency to make up stories (Bullshit)

Sounding like the only hip hop you've heard is top 40

G#m
And your record company is completely missing it

All the kids are dissing it for not being legitimate

E
So in a battle, you can't hack it, react with whack shit

And get smacked with verbal back flips

G#m
Get your ass kicked by fabulous battle catalysts

It's taken decades for MC's to establish this

E
You're new to hip-hop, and welcome if your serious

But not on the mic, leave that to the experienced

G#m
Using the waves of sound

A5                 B  A              G#m
The true master paralyzes his opponents

  F#m    G#m             B
Leaving him vulnerable to attack

[Chorus]

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

C#m                  F#m
Bring it to you every time like this?

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

A5                  B
Step, step up! Step, step up!

[Bridge]

G#m                                     A
After years of pain-staking research by the world's leading sound scientists

G#m                                     A
We here at the sound institute have invented a reliable audio weapons system

G#m                                     A                                G#m
Actual movement of musical sound in space used to carefully attack and

 A
neutralize the cellular structure of the human body And the question must be askedâ¦

[Chorus]

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

C#m                  F#m
Bring it to you every time like this?

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

A5                  B
Step, step up! Step, step up!

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

C#m                  F#m
Bring it to you every time like this?

G#m                  E5 D#5
Who can rock a rhyme like this?

A5                  B
Step, step up! Step, step up!

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