9 Elements Lyrics - Kristyles - Krs One

Well my ladies and gentlemen 

This is a rap session and my name is "KRS-ONE!" 

And when I talk about "Hip-Hop Music!", I know 

[Kris] 

One: Breaking or break dancing 

Really b-boying, freestyle or street dancin' 

Two: MC'ing or rap 

Divine speech what I'm doing right now no act 

Three: Grafitti art or burning bombin' 

Taggin', writin', now you're learning! uh! 

Four : DJ'ing, we ain't playing! 

{*scratch* You know what I'm saying! 

Five : Beatboxing 

Give me a {*beatboxin* Yes and we rockin'! 

Six: Street fashion, lookin' fly 

Catchin' the eye while them cats walk on by 

Seven: Street language, our verbal communication 

Our codes throughout the nation 

Eight: Street knowledge, common sense 

The wisdom of the elders from way back whence 

Nine : Street entrepreneur realism 

No job, just get up call 'em and get 'em 

Here's how I'm tellin' it, all 9 Elements 

We stand in love, no we're never failing it 

Intelligent? No doubt 

Hip-Hop? We're not selling it out, we're just lettin' it out 

"If you're checkin' us out this hour, we teachin' Hip Hop; 

Holy Integrated People Havin' Omnipresent Power." 

[Chorus] 

Rap is something you do! 

3x Hip-Hop is something you live! *scratched* 

Rap is something you do! 

Hip-Hop is something you live! *scratched* 

[Kris] 

Skaters, BMX bike riders, rock 

Don't you ever stop! You are hip-hop 

You doing the same things we did on our block in the suburbs 

You know you be packing that black block 

Selling that crack rock and ecstacy 

Gettin' pissy drunk, fallin' out next to me 

But like I told those in the ghettos 

Here's the facts! True hip-hop is so much more than that 

Some much more than rap, so much more than beats 

Hip-hop is all about victory over the streets 

What you see on TV is a lie 

That's not something you wanna live or pattern your life by 

But, huh that's too much preachin' ain't it? 

You don't want the "edutainment", you wanna be dead on the pavement 

Well, so be it, some of ya'll ain't gonna see it 

Others wanna enslave your mind! Kris wanna free it! 

[Chorus] 

Rap is something you do! 

5x Hip-Hop is something you live! *scratched* 

"Oh yea" *scratched* --- From "P is free" 

"I have spent my whole life livin'", "talk to the fullest", "no doubt" 

[Kris] 

You know that's why these rappers can't hang 

Cause the essence of hip-hop is not a material thang 

They so careless, hip-hop is in a {? we give 

Rap we do, hip-hop we live 

How many times I gotta say it? How the radio ain't gonna play it 

And you hip-hoppers sit back and okay it 

Think about it! (think about it) 

The present course of action, we have got to reroute it! 

[Chorus: repeat 3X] 

Hip-Hop is something you live!