Get Yourself Up Lyrics

Get Yourself Up lyrics

Yeah

(Yeah)

Yeah

(Yeah)

Ah-ha

(Ah-ha)

Ah-ha

(Ah-ha)

Hardcore!

Word

Hardcore!



[ *live excerpt* ]

(You really think they're ready, black?)

Let's break it all the way down

All the way down

Huh-huh

Don't be fooled

Don't be fooled

Rap is something you do

Hip-hop is something you live

Rap is something you do

Hip-hop is
something you.. ( *crowd responds* )

Rap is something you do

Hip-hop.. ( *crowd responds* )

You are not just doing hip-hop..

( *crowd responds* )





Yeah

Let's get this
started

Word up



[ CHORUS ]

You gotta - get - your -
self - up!

You been knocked down?

Get yourself up!

You been
shot down?

Get yourself up!

You been locked down?

Get
yourself up!

Get - your - self - up!

Been knocked down?

Get
yourself up!

Been shot down?

Get yourself up!

You been locked
down?

Get yourself up!



What is a real hip-hop MC?

Is it
MTV, is it BET?

Is it five m-i-c's 

So the people can see

I
mean, how you think you're free 

When you act like property?

Tell
me, how do you judge an MC when he's rockin

I mean rockin it live, not
pickin his cotton

I mean adjustin his clothes, I mean how do you know

Before you come to the show that you're not gettin heated

That you're
not gettin cheated

That you ain't come to the club thinkin 'I must've
been weeded!'

(Word)

You got to be a educated consumer

Spend
your money on MC's cause these rappers'll do ya

Ass they want is your
cash, ass, grass, gas in a flick

When you ask for that autograph they
ass-dash quick

Beware of the rapper, he talks like it don't m