But so many people don't even know what the raps are saying
 You say  oh man  this track is fat but when I ask
 What do you think about my raps your reply is (huh? what?)
 Cause all you hear is bluh bluh  bluh bluh bluh  bluh bluh
 You don't check the lyrical flows  you don't check the lyrical content
 For all you care I could just be flowing nonsense
 Over the beats cause they move you
 You wanna groove but you don't even know what you're grooving to
 Waving your hands back and forth, shouting the hook lines
 But never really understanding my rhymes
 Oblivious, even though I'm giving you this
 Definition of how you shouldn't be missing this
 Don't act like you know when you don't know the lyrics
 So tell me one thing, can you hear it?

 HOOK x 2:
 Can you hear it? (huh?)
 Can you hear it? (what?)
 Can you hear it? (huh?)
 Can you hear it? (what?)
 Can you hear it? (huh?)
 Can you hear it? (what?)
 And if you can't hear it say (huh? what?)

 Well so many suckers out there are too quick to diss
 Cause everything they hear an automatic diss
 Diss this diss that what's up with that
 Why does everything you hear got to be wack, yup
 How'd you like that rap (it's wack)
 How'd you like that track (it's wack)
 Well how about the scratch (wack wack wack)
 You're calling me junk, before you even listen
 Does it make you feel good cause you're dissin
 You don't feel good bout yourself so you're puttin other people down
 But you can't relate to the state of mind I'm in
 You gotta begin to realize that
 You gotta analyze before you criticize
 So pour yourself a bowl of new material like cereal
 Take a big spoonful and savor the flavor
 And just digest and manifest what the group's about
 And if you chuck, hock pooh! then spit it out
 So unlock your brain til you have that spirit
 Well tell me now yo, can you hear it?


 HOOK x 2


 So many people try to claim that rap is not music
 They say we take the notes and the chords and abuse it
 They always talking trash, dissin on a mission
 Just because we don't fit in the musical definition
 But we're constantly creating, putting beats together
 Thinking up more ways to make the music sound more clever
 Evolving and evolving every thing that we can think of
 And we're rising yes we're rising yes we're rising up above
 The limits and the walls where they said we would fall
 But now in the 90's, hiphop is standing tall
 But we gotta keep progressing, encourage innovation
 Strive for unity within the hiphop nation
 So play it loud and proud, you need to turn it up
 Or if you're in your ride, let it bump in your trunk
 And if you get a ticket, so what, you can clear it
 So if you see the man, say what up, can you hear it