[krs-one]   Come again down man   This is krs-one on to wreck ruff ruff ruff stuff   So we're gonna do it like this now   Put up your hands if you love hip-hop music like I do, seen?    And we gonna do it like this now   Listen to the lyrics! bo!      Me say hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule   And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again!   Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule   And these other industries out here cannot take it, we want!   Rap music, we want the rap music, bo!   Rap music, we want the rap music, come again!   Rap music, we want the rap music, bo!   Rap music, we want the rap music      Way back in the days, 1979   Fatback band made a record usin rhyme   In the same year come the sugarhill gang   With the pow pow boogie, and the big bang bang   R&b, disco, pop country jazz   All thought hip-hop, was just a little fad   But here comes grandmaster flash nonstop   And right after flash, run-d.m.c. dropped   Now, they had to pay attention to the scale   Where other music failed, hip-hop prevailed   See rap music has gone platinum from the start   So now in eighty-nine we gettin present as an art   Me ask, is it because, we've got the eighty-nine vision?    Whoa whoa whoa!   Or is it because, it's a unanimous decision   Hey hey hey hey      That hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule   And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again!   Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule   And these other industries out here cannot take it, we want!   Rap music, we want the rap music, bo!   Rap music, we want the rap music, come again!   Rap music, we want the rap music, come down!   Rap music, we want the rap music      I pick up the mic and put down crazy lyrics   I put it 'pon the phonograph so everyone can hear it   You want to sound like me bwoy, you can't come near it   Cause when I flash a new style, the people dem a cheer it   You get so jealous til you just can't bear it   Jealous of ms. melodie, me and derek   See derek is d-nice, and I'm krs-one ah   We'll rock ya in the winter and we rocked ya last summer   You want to battle me you got to wake up in the morning   Cause if you're still sleepin, then i'ma start yawnin      Because ah hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule   And these other industries out here cannot take it, come again!   Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule   And these other industries out here cannot take it, we want!   Rap music, we want the rap music, bo!   Rap music, we want the rap music, come again!   Rap music, we want the rap music, come down!   Rap music, we want the rap music      Just, put up your hands if you like rap music   Put up your hands if you like rap music   Ms. melodie boy she always on the mixer   And d-square, love rap music ah   Dj doc boy yes he's on the mix and   Krs-one'll flash a lyric, we say   Here comes yvette, on the lyric and   Big kap, rockin on the mix and   Bdp boy we'll flash a lyric a   Knock the suckers down every time dem hear it, because      Hip-hop rule, hip-hop rule   And these other industries out here cannot take it, come down!   Come again!   We want!   Bo!   Come again!   Bo!      * dub/instrumental of first verse reprised to fade *