Hot Topic

[Refrain]
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme
Hot topic is the way that we rhyme

[Verse 1]
Carol Rama and Eleanor Antin
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneemann
"Yr getting old", that's what they'll say
But don't give a damn I'm listening anyway

[Chorus 1]
Stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Don't you stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
I can't live if you stop (One step behind the drum style)
Don't you stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)

[Verse 2]
Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto
Leslie Feinberg and Faith Ringgold
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man

[Chorus 2]
Don't stop (One step behind the drum style)
Don't you stop (One step behind the drum style)
We won't stop (One step behind the drum style)
Don't you stop (One step behind the drum style)

[Verse 3]
So many rules and so much opinion
So much shit to give in, give in to
So many rules and so much opinion
So much bullshit but we won't give in

[Chorus 3]
Stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
We won't stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Don't you stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
I can't live if you stop

[Verse 4]
Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison

[Chorus 4]
Stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Don't you stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Please don't stop (One step behind the drum style)
We won't stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)

[Interlude]
Gertrude Stein, Marlon Riggs, Billie Jean King, Ut, DJ Cuttin Candy
David Wojnarowicz, Melissa York, Nina Simone, Ann Peebles, Tami Hart
The Slits, Hanin Elias, Hazel Dickens, Cathy Sissler, Shirley Muldowney
Urvashi vaid, Valie Export, Cathy Opie, James Baldwin
Diane Dimassa, Aretha Franklin, Joan Jett, Mia X, Krystal Wakem
Kara Walker, Justin Bond, Bridget Irish, Juliana Lueking
Cecelia Dougherty, woo! Ariel Schrag, The Need, Vaginal Creme Davis
Alice Gerard, Billy Tipton, Julie Doucet, Yayoi Kusama, Eileen Myles

[Outro]
Oh no, no, no, don't stop, stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Oh no, no, no, don't stop, stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Oh no, no, no, don't stop, stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Oh no, no, no, don't stop, stop (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Oh no, no, no, don't stop, stop (One step behind the drum style)
(One step behind the drum style)
Oh no, no, no, don't stop, stop (One step behind the drum style)
(One step behind the drum style)