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Get 'em up y'all, get 'em up y'all
This one's for all y'all, hands high y'all
Get 'em up y'all, get 'em up y'all
This one's for all y'all, hands high y'all, come on
Soul snatching through the boom box
Shook the world, every ghetto up rock
Rebel art, fist raised and hair bobbing
Beatboxing on beat street to beats knocking
Planet rocking, rock, rock, rock, rock on
Art form for the poor, hungry, broken and strong
The song of the voiceless will forever be heard
Over beat breaks on every landscape, that's word
I'm saying though, I was just in Shibuya
Seen this kid with an L.A. Sim shirt and some Pumas
Yeah man, way out in Japan
They be rocking Nike Dunks, skateboards in they hand man
Rap made an impact all over the world
Enabled me to make these stacks and mack to these girls
But I also drop pearls, jewels and gems
Cause it's more than just guns, swimming pools and rims
Universal, taking this around the world
Universal, from the nerds to the valley girls
Universal, from the cornfields to the barbershop
The gritty city streets and the family boondocks
Universal, taking this all over the globe
Universal, to places that you don't even know
Universal, London, Japan and Amsterdam
And taking over the world, it wasn't even planned
From ghettos to suburbs, East, West to worldwide
New York ghetto child and Puerto Rican wild style
Japanese, each knee, every country mic check
And through the internet, man we all straight connect
The ones who love the culture, don't abuse, show respect
Thirty years of evolution and it ain't finished yet
Cause the freedom of expression is the soul of hip hop
It speaks every language so it's never gon' stop
They say nothing is sacred and nothing is pure
That point is taken as they're raking manure
Muddied with the message of money and self hate
It seems so sacrilegious to even resuscitate
The definition of music as the voice of a people