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Hip-Hop - it will never die |
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Hip-Hop - Hip-Hop will never, never die |
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Ghetto niggaz struttin' with nothin' but dreams and Queens broke |
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Mack-10's, you can smell the PCP smoke |
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Mele Mel told it real in the music he wrote |
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Those were the days I remember |
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We used to be close, then I was nine, coldest winter I remember |
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Was slippin' in December, two feet of snow |
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Yeah, that's the East Coast, that black ice |
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Symbolized the rap life |
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It was slick and smooth |
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I understood I had to come from the hood |
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Doin' the Pee Wee Herman, the Smurf |
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Before them phones chirped |
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The block's drugs flowin', didn't have your own work |
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You had to have somebody else's, a small chrome on your pelvis |
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Starter Jacket, Blue Georgetown or Green Celtic |
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Your girl's too expensive, she wants shellfish |
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Red Lobster was poppin', standin' on that line forever |
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I wish somebody would step on my Bally leather's |
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Now it's whatever... hip-hop's forever |
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Kept my radio on 98 or BLS |
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Had a pre-pubescent lyric gift but niggaz never hear me spit |
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My little brother tried to warn 'em, I was a tornado comin' |
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He knew from inside, like the eye of a storm |
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And told my pops about it |
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He gave us tickets to that Wild Style flick |
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Double Trouble, retarded, we was the proudest |
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I never had a summer job |
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Sweepin' leaves, socks to my knees |
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Homemade shorts cutoff, Lee's |
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I ain't work a day in my life |
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Wipin' away eraser of the paper man |
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I'm just tryin' to say it right |
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Big radio, tape slowin' down |
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Lower the lights go, battery dead |
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I gotta freeze 'em 'til they ice cold |
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In the freezer later, I'm starin' at the speaker |
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Sunk in them 808's deeper, cleanin' my sneakers |
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Wit the bristles of a toothbrush, soap and water |
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I let the shoe strings soak in water... |
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Live hip-hop live, live hip-hop live |
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Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give |
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Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay |
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I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays |
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Ain't got nothin' to do wit old school, new school |
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Dirty South, West Coast, East Coast |
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This about us, this our thing, 'knaw'sayin'? |
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This came from the gut, from the blood, from the soul |
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Right here man, this is our thing man |
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You know, so I say what I say |
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And I say what I say, and I mean it |
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Y'all take it how you wanna take it |
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Cause if you're askin' - Why is hip-hop dead? |
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It's a pretty good chance you're the reason it died, man |
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It's a pretty good chance your lame ass, corny ass, is the reason it died, man |
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You don't give a fuck about, you don't know nothin' about it |
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You want this paper, be a hustler |
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You a hustler, you ain't a rapper |
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Get your paper man |
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YouknowwhatI'msayin, but this rap shit is real |
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Bitch, this shit is real, bitch, ha-ha |
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Live hip-hop live, (Stay) live hip-hop live |
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Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give |
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Stay hip-hop stay, (Live) stay hip-hop stay (Live) |
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I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays |
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Live hip-hop live, (Stay) live hip-hop live |
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Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give |
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Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay |
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I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays |
