Hot Topic

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

Carol Rama and Eleanor Antin (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneemann (One step behind the drum style)
"You're getting old", that's what they'll say (One step behind the drum style)
But don't give a damn I'm listening anyway (One step behind the drum style)

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)

Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Leslie Feinberg and Faith Ringgold (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)

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)

So many rules and so much opinion (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
So much shit to give in, give in to (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
So many rules and so much opinion (One step behind the drum style)
So much bullshit but we won't give in (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)

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

Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Vivienne Dick and Lorraine O'Grady (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Gayatri Spivak and Angela Davis (Hot topic is the way that we rhyme)
Laurie Weeks and Dorothy Allison (One step behind the drum style)

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)

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

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)