[00:04.91]Hip-Hop -  it will never die
[00:05.56]Hip-Hop - Hip-Hop will never, never die
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[00:11.25]Ghetto niggaz struttin' with nothin' but dreams and Queens broke
[00:13.59]Mack-10's, you can smell the PCP smoke
[00:16.36]Mele Mel told it real in the music he wrote
[00:19.02]Those were the days I remember
[00:20.64]We used to be close, then I was nine, coldest winter I remember
[00:23.82]Was slippin' in December, two feet of snow
[00:26.04]Yeah, that's the East Coast, that black ice
[00:27.84]Symbolized the rap life
[00:29.33]It was slick and smooth
[00:30.25]I understood I had to come from the hood
[00:32.01]Doin' the Pee Wee Herman, the Smurf
[00:34.02]Before them phones chirped
[00:35.55]The block's drugs flowin', didn't have your own work
[00:37.67]You had to have somebody else's, a small chrome on your pelvis
[00:40.89]Starter Jacket, Blue Georgetown or Green Celtic
[00:43.57]Your girl's too expensive, she wants shellfish
[00:45.96]Red Lobster was poppin', standin' on that line forever
[00:48.72]I wish somebody would step on my Bally leather's
[00:51.20]Now it's whatever... hip-hop's forever
[00:53.69]Kept my radio on 98 or BLS
[00:56.10]Had a pre-pubescent lyric gift but niggaz never hear me spit
[00:59.45]My little brother tried to warn 'em, I was a tornado comin'
[01:02.44]He knew from inside, like the eye of a storm
[01:04.47]And told my pops about it
[01:05.81]He gave us tickets to that Wild Style flick
[01:07.76]Double Trouble, retarded, we was the proudest
[01:10.14]I never had a summer job
[01:11.86]Sweepin' leaves, socks to my knees
[01:13.65]Homemade shorts cutoff, Lee's
[01:15.55]I ain't work a day in my life
[01:16.88]Wipin' away eraser of the paper man
[01:19.49]I'm just tryin' to say it right
[01:20.89]Big radio, tape slowin' down
[01:22.56]Lower the lights go, battery dead
[01:24.75]I gotta freeze 'em 'til they ice cold
[01:26.61]In the freezer later, I'm starin' at the speaker
[01:29.20]Sunk in them 808's deeper, cleanin' my sneakers
[01:31.84]Wit the bristles of a toothbrush, soap and water
[01:34.37]I let the shoe strings soak in water...
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[01:38.37]Live hip-hop live, live hip-hop live
[01:38.93]Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give
[01:39.18]Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay
[01:39.38]I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays
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[01:40.41]Ain't got nothin' to do wit old school, new school
[01:41.57]Dirty South, West Coast, East Coast
[01:44.06]This about us, this our thing, 'knaw'sayin'?
[01:47.79]This came from the gut, from the blood, from the soul
[01:51.92]Right here man, this is our thing man
[01:55.93]You know, so I say what I say
[01:59.71]And I say what I say, and I mean it
[02:02.24]Y'all take it how you wanna take it
[02:04.31]Cause if you're askin' - Why is hip-hop dead?
[02:06.94]It's a pretty good chance you're the reason it died, man
[02:09.96]It's a pretty good chance your lame ass, corny ass, is the reason it died, man
[02:14.98]You don't give a fuck about, you don't know nothin' about it
[02:17.98]You want this paper, be a hustler
[02:19.94]You a hustler, you ain't a rapper
[02:21.23]Get your paper man
[02:23.01]YouknowwhatI'msayin, but this rap shit is real
[02:25.33]Bitch, this shit is real, bitch, ha-ha
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[02:29.30]Live hip-hop live, (Stay) live hip-hop live
[02:29.94]Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give
[02:31.00]Stay hip-hop stay, (Live) stay hip-hop stay (Live)
[02:36.30]I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays
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[02:41.92]Live hip-hop live, (Stay) live hip-hop live
[02:47.04]Give hip-hop give, give hip-hop give
[02:52.50]Stay hip-hop stay, stay hip-hop stay
[02:57.88]I pray, hip-hop pray, I pray hip-hop stays