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Real Hip-Hop - Part II

By KRS-One · Targeting Commercial rappers

Real Hip-Hop - Part II is a diss track by KRS-One targeting Commercial rappers. The recording also credits Mic Vandalz. The supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent.

Released1997

Annotated2

ExplicitYes

Addressable transcript

Lyrics & breakdown

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[KRS-One]
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Hah! They not ready, uhh uhh
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Set it off, South Bronx
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Set it off, uhh, check it
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The real hip-hop, is over here
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The real hip-hop, is over there
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The real hip-hop, is over here
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The real hip-hop, is over there
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It's a demo, it's a demo, it's a demo, it's a demo
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Steppin out the limo, KRS-One, gettin in you
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From the get-go kiddo throw em out the window
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Flip em like a nickel
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Peep the hottest single
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He'll sink them like the S.S. Minnow
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That same kid that rocks the Benz rocks the Pinto
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Watch my signal, I rock the rap game like Nintendo
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Hey diddle, diddle, get played now like a fiddle
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I watch you wiggle, in front of the audience that was fickle
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Now you can't make a nickle, the sour pickle you are
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KRS-One, '97 superstar
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I got one thing to say and let me make this clear
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Everywhere, now throw your hands in the air
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The real hip-hop, is over here
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The real hip-hop, is over there
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The real hip-hop, is over here
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The real hip-hop, throw your hands in the air!
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[Mic Vandalz]
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Yo, been rockin rooftops, knahmsayin?
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Internat', yaknahmsayin?
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KRS, vandalizin, yaknahmsayin? With the Mic Vandalz
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Boogie Down, Uptown, yaknahmsayin?
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It's dope, check it out
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[KRS-One]
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When I ain't doin a show, or bringin all the money in
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Or at the studio, or home studyin
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I'm checkin out Funkmaster Flex on cassette
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As he wrecks turntable sets with many subjects
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Huff now that's the Blastmaster connects, the larynx
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To a high-tech mic set, you get what you get
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Tech and Sway, index of singles is complex
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On Technics sets, he wrecks, collects a fee next
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While you rejects practice, suffix and prefix
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Hip-Hop I reads it, and mark your album incompleted
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I seen it, saw it, back in eighty-five
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Platinum rappers yo that can't rock live
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Their mental facilities, lack the ability
Multi-line diss block
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For lyric agility -- battle? You're killin me
Block noteForces the dispute into a direct contest
TargetCommercial rappers
MeaningWhat it means: In “For lyric agility -- battle? You're killin me,” KRS-One addresses Commercial rappers as an opponent who must prove the claims being made rather than rely on reputation. Why it was said: The supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent. The challenge narrows the argument to performance under pressure, where refusing or failing to answer can itself be presented as a loss for Commercial rappers.
ContextThe supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent.
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The real hip-hop, is over here
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The real hip-hop, is over there
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The real hip-hop, is over here
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The real hip-hop, throw your hands in the air!
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The real hip-hop, is over there
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The real hip-hop, is it over here?
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The real hip-hop, yo it's over there
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The real hip.. now throw your hands in the air!
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[Mic Vandalz]
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Throw your hands in the air (get loose now)
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Throw your hands in the air (get loose now)
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Throw your hands in the air (get loose now)
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Aiyyo I'm breakin, in this rap thing, I've been waitin
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Ready for the world, rude like awakening
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Homo sapien, ? ? rock every stadium
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Scholars and players, here to Las Vegas
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Embrace the papers, land of money makers
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Brothers hate us cause the brothers ain't us
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Yo yo, from coast to coast I'mma overdose you and BDP you
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And Kris-Kross your mind, wouldn't wanna be you
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A Uptown thing, world premier
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Throw your hands in the air baby it's on
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How many MC's wanna get they rep torn?
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From Joe to Cage and mics in my juvenile days, I abuse
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The mic get lifted, the crowd gets amused
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I got next.. you lose!
Multi-line diss block
Block noteForces the dispute into a direct contest
TargetCommercial rappers
MeaningWhat it means: In “I got next.. you lose!,” KRS-One addresses Commercial rappers as an opponent who must prove the claims being made rather than rely on reputation. Why it was said: The supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent. The challenge narrows the argument to performance under pressure, where refusing or failing to answer can itself be presented as a loss for Commercial rappers.
ContextThe supplied transcript is a competitive battle-rap performance directed at rival MCs rather than one consistently named opponent.