| Get 'em up y’all, get 'em up y’all
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| This one’s for all y’all, hands high y’all
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| Get 'em up y’all, get 'em up y’all
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| This one’s for all y’all, hands high y’all come on
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| Soul smashing through the boombox
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| Shook the world, every ghetto up rocks (up rocks)
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| Rebel art fist raised and head bobbing
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| Beat boxing on Beach Street to beach knocking
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| Planet rocking
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| Rock, rock rock, rock on
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| Artform for the poor, hungry, broken and strong
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| A song of the voiceless, who’ll forever be heard
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| Over beat breaks on every landscape that’s word
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| I’m saying though, I was just in Shibuya
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| Seen this kid with an L.A. Symph shirt and some Pumas
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| Yeah man, way out in Japan
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| They be rocking Nike dunks, skateboards in their hand man
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| Rap made an impact all over the world
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| Enabled me to make these stacks and to these girls
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| But I also drop pearls, jewels, and gems
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| Cause it’s more than just guns, women, pools and rims
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| Universal, taking this around the world
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| Universal, from the nerds to the valley girls
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| Universal, from the corn fields to the barber shops
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| And gritty city streets and the 'Bama boondocks
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| Universal, taking this all over the globe
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| Universal, to places that you don’t even know
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| Universal, London, Japan and Amsterdam
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| It’s taking over the world it wasn’t even planned
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| Yeah, from ghettos to suburbs
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| East west to worldwide
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| New York ghetto China
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| Puerto Rico
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| Japanese ichi ni, every country mic check
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| And through the internet man, we all straight connect (straight connect)
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| The one’s who love the culture, don’t abuse, show respect
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| Thirty years of evolution and it ain’t finished yet (no)
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| Cause the freedom of expression is the soul of hip hop
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| It speaks every language so it’s never gonna stop
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| They say nothing is sacred and nothing is pure (yep)
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| That point is taken as the rake in manure
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| Money with the message of money and self hate
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| It seems so sacrilegious to even resuscitate it
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| Definition of music as the voice of a people
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| Cause right about now it’s advertising the illegal as elite
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| And the feat is just to catch up
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| Get shot a hundred times and put a platinum plaque up
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| Universal, taking this around the world
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| Universal, from the nerds to the valley girls
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| Universal, from the corn fields to the barber shops
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| And gritty city streets and the 'Bama boondocks
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| Universal, taking this all over the globe
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| Universal, to places that you don’t even know
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| Universal, London, Japan and Amsterdam
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| It’s taking over the world it wasn’t even planned
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| Some say they used to love her, but do it like a single mother
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| A phase in your colors the sound of the summer
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| Timbaland, Tommy, and Kango
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| Influenced the world thanks to Arsenio
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| From a, L.A. Symphony to De La Soul
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| Whether it’s, C’est la Vie or Say No Go
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| We play the role of global earlobe patrol
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| Unload on different continents and reap the motherload
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| From audiences in Rome where the peeps like to dance
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| And the clubs in Long Beach where they crease their pants
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| We see
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| Healthy competition is good as long as they clap their hands
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| The genius of music, the joy it brings
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| A child’s innocent smile, their hopes and dreams
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| A better tomorrow, a better today
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| Little say «What's up» when you’re on your way
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| Universal, taking this around the world
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| Universal, from the nerds to the valley girls
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| Universal, from the corn fields to the barber shops
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| And gritty city streets and the 'Bama boondocks
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| Universal, taking this all over the globe
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| Universal, to places that you don’t even know
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| Universal, London, Japan and Amsterdam
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| It’s taking over the world it wasn’t even planned
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| Trinidad, Africa, Angola, Canada, China, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru,
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| Ecuador, Belize, Jamaica, Barbados, Mauritius, Bali, Portugal, Spain, France,
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| Germany, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland |