No matter how hard you try, you can't stop us now No matter how hard you try, you can't stop us now Since the prehistoric ages And the days of ancient Greece Walked down through the Middle Ages Planet Earth kept going through changes And in the Renaissance came The times continue to change Nothing stayed the same But there were always renegades Like Chief Sid and Bull, Tom Paine Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X They were renegades Of their time and age, a mighty renegade We're the renegades of pumps We're the renegades of pumps We're the renegades of pumps We're the renegades of pumps A solar system many, many galaxies away We are the force of another creation A new musical revelation And we're on this musical mission To help the others listen A group from land-to-land Singin' electronic jazz Like true nation Revelations Destroy all nations Destroy all nations Now when I change all the people With their own philosophies I change the course of history Everyday people like you and me We're the renegades, we're the people With our own philosophies We change the course of history Everyday people like you and me Come on We're the renegades of funk We're the renegades of funk We're the renegades of funk We're the renegades of funk We're poppin' the sugar on that British side of hip-hop Hoppin' and shackin' and rockin' and puttin' inside the hip-hop Cause when we're gone There ain't no stoppin' Poppin' and shackin' and rockin' and Puttin' inside the hip-hop Cause we're poppin' the sugar on that silk side of hip-hop Poppin' and shackin' and rockin' and Puttin inside the hip-hop We're the renegades of funk We're the renegades of funk We're the renegades of funk We're the renegades of funk We vicious out the funk and add an empty poppin' Messin' with the force and the sound of electronics The bass, the treble, the horns, and our vocals Cause every time we're poppin' to the beat we get fresh And what's the time when our music Was somethin' called a big street beat People would gather from all around To get down to the big sound You had to be a renegade those days And take a ride to the dance floor Say jam sucka Say jam sucka Say groove sucka Now groove sucka Let it dance sucka Let it dance sucka Now move sucka Now move sucka Say jam succa Say jam sucka Say groove sucka Now groove sucka Let it dance sucka Let it dance sucka Now move sucka Now move sucka And we'rea rioting against the funk We're rioting against the funk We're rioting against the funk We're rioting against the funk We're rioting against the funk We're rioting against the funk We're rioting against the funk