Yo 

What is hip hop? 

What does it mean? 

Where's it come from? 

Where's it going? 



I love hip hop, when I walk I ditty-bop 

New York when I talk, I give my city props 

At least every 52 weeks my committee drops 

Yet another butta banger, straight off the hanger 

All lines are busy, your mind is dizzy 

My shine is divine, you'll never find a MC 

Greater, Jun 1 operates the fader 

In the crates droppin more plates than a clumsy waiter 

Now this is what hip hop is 

So pay attention son, cause when I'm done there may be a pop quiz 

Hip hop is... a DJ cuttin 

Adjustin pitches, hittin switches and mashin buttons 

Hip hop is... a b-boy struttin 

On the dancefloor for the hardcore clout and 

We bumrush the show when the doors start shuttin 

Hip hop is... when you make somethin out of nothin 

Like "jigga-boom-bap, to the beat y'all" 

My name in fly colors on a concrete wall 

Hip hop is... a style that's wild 

A ghetto child lookin for a reason to smile 

Hip hop is the application of street knowledge 

From modern day situations not learned in college 

This is real life, real MC's with steel mics 

A juggle, a constant struggle when you feel strife 

Hip hop is... a way of hope, a display of dope 

That started in the Bronx to spread across the globe 

That's what hip hop is 

(Check it out 

Is New York in the house, make some noise!) 

Hip hop is... "Let me see your hands in the sky" 

Hip hop is... "Damn, that jam was fly!" 

Hip hop is... "Clap your hands, stomp your feet" 

Change the beat, this is what they playin in the streets 

Hip hop is... when you feel the treble and bass 

And your heart starts to race at an incredible pace 

That's what hip hop is 

(People in the place) 

That's hip hop y'all 

(People in the place) 

(Say ho-o) 

(People in the place) 

(Say awww) 

(People in the place) 

(Say ho-o) 

(People in the place to be) 

(I'ma lay it on your right now) 

(Rock and you don't stop) 

(Rock on) 

(Rock and you don't stop) 

(Rock on) 

(Rock and you don't stop) 

(Rock on) 

(Rock and you don't stop) 

(Rock on) 

(...mike is gonna say all the rhymes that you