Step up/Nobodys listening/It´s going down
Linkin Park
Lp Underground v4.0 (2004)

Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Bring it to you every time like this?
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Step, step up, step, step up

Watch as the room rocks
Mentally moonwalk
Mixed media slang
Banging in your boom box verbal violence
Lyrical stylist
In a time when rock hip hop rhymes are childish
You can’t tempt me with rhymes that are empty
Rapping to a beat doesn’t make you an emcee
With your lack of skill and facility
You’re killing me
And a dj in the group just for credibility
I heard that some of you are getting help with your rhymes
You’re not an emcee if someone else writes your lines
And rapping over rock doesn’t make you a pioneer
Cause rock and hip hop have collaborated for years
But now they’re getting randomly mixed and matched up
All after a fast buck and all the tracks suck
So how does it stack up? None of it’s real
You want to be an emcee you’ve got to study the skill

Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Bring it to you every time like this?
Who can rock a rhyme like this?
Step, step up, step, step up


Yo peep the style and the kids checking for it
The number one question is
How could you ignore it
LP back in the cut
Over basement tracks
With raps that got you backing this up like
[Rewind That]
We're just rolling with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylistic division
With these non-stop lyrics of life living
Not to be forgotten
But still unforgiven
But in the meantime there are those who wanna
Talk this and that/so I suppose that
It gets to a point where feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt

Try to give you warning
But everyone ignores me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening
Call to you so clearly
But you don't want to hear me
[Told you everything loud and clear]
But nobody's listening


This song is called It´s going down, you ready?

When I say It´s going, you say down
It´s going-down!
It´s going-down!


Check it out It’s going down
The rhythm projects round my next sound
Reflects the complex hybrid dialect now
Detect the mesh of many elements compressed down
The melting pot of a super future X-style
The combination of a vocal caress
With lungs that gasp for breath
From emotional stress
With special effects
And a distorted collage
Carefully lodged between beats of rhythmic barrage
It’s going down
The logical progression on the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line
To blur the edges so they blend together properly
Take you on an audible odyssey now
It’s going down
The logical progression on the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line

It’s going down
Put it out for the world to see
LP and Xmen to the 10th degree
It's goin down
Nobody in the world is safe
When we melt down the wax in your record crate
It's goin' down
Put it out for the world to see
LP and Xmen to the 10th degree
It's goin down
Nobody in the world is safe

When I say It´s going, you say down
It´s going-down!
It´s going-down!