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Hip Hop Is Dead (Clean)
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[DJ samples:]
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"Hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead"
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"Hip...hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead"
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"Hip...hip hop" "hip...hip hop" "is dead"
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"Hip...hip hop" "hip hop" "hip hop"
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[Hook]
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If hip hop should die before I wake
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I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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If hip hop should die before I wake
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I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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[Jovanni:]
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Hip hop just died this mornin'
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And she's dead, she's dead
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[Verse 1:]
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Yeah, people smoke, laugh, party, and die in the same corner
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Get cash, live fast, body their man's mama
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Quick fast trick a fingers on the llama
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Revenge in their eyes, Hennesy and the ganja
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Word to the wise with villain state of minds
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Grindin' hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind
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Grindin' hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind
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Grindin' hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind
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Whenever, if ever, I roll up, it's sown up
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Any ghetto will tell you Nas helped grow us up
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My face once graced promotional Sony trucks
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Hundred million in billin', I helped build 'em up
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Gave my freind my right, I could have gave left
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So like my girl Foxy, the kid went Def
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So people, who's your top ten?
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Is it MC Shan? Is it MC Ren?
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[Hook]
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If hip hop should die before I wake
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I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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If hip hop should die before I wake
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I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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[Jovanni:]
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Hip hop just died this mornin'
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And she's dead, she's dead
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[Verse 2:]
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The bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin'
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Come through something ill missin' the ceilin'
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What influenced my raps? Stick up's and killing's
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Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings
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Criticize that, why is that?
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Cuz Nas rap is compared to legitimized crap
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Cuz we love to talk on ass we chickens
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Most intellectuals will only half listen
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So you can't blame jazz musicians
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Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues
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Oh I think they like me...in my white tee
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You can't ice me, we here for life B
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On my second marriage, hip hop's my first...
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And for that we not takin' it lightly
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If hip hop should die we die together
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Bodies in the morgue lie together
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All together now
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[Hook]
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If hip hop should die before I wake
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I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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If hip hop should die before I wake
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I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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Roll to every station, wreck the DJ
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[Jovanni:]
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Hip hop just died this mornin'
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Hip hop just died this mornin'
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Hip hop just died this mornin'
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And she's dead, she's dead
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[crowd chanting "Hip hop!" becomes beat]
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[Verse 3:]
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Everybody sound the same, commercialize the game
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Reminiscin' when it wasn't all business
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If it got where it started
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So we all gather here for the dearly departed
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Hip hopper since a toddler
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One homeboy became a man then a mobster
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If the guys let me get my last swig of Vodka
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R.I.P. we'll donate your lungs to a rasta
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Went from turntables to mp3s
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From "Beat Street" to commercials on Mickey D's
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From gold cables to Jacobs
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From plain facials to Botox and face lifts
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I'm lookin' over my shoulder
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It's about 80 peoples from my hood that showed up
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And they came to show love
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Sold out concert and the doors are closed shut.
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