*featuring Common
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What?
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Hip-Hop y'all, to the top y'all
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Hip-Hop check it out
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It's like that, and it sounds so nice
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
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We bout to take it to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the check it out
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Yo, what? And it sounds so nice
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
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I'm bout to take it to the top, what?
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Hip-Hop (hip-hop love)
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To the top (to the top) hip-hop, check it out
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It's like, word up, and it sounds so nice
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life (of my life)
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[Black Thought]
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The anticipation arose as time froze
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I stared off the stage with my eyes closed and dove
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into the deep cosmos
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The impact pushed back, the first five rows
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But before the raw live shows
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I remember I'se a little snot-nosed
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Rockin Gazelle, goggles and Izod clothes
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Learnin the ropes of ghetto survival
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Peepin out the situation I had to slide through
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Had to watch my back my front plus my sides too
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When it came to gettin mine I ain't tryin, to argue
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Sometimes I wouldn'ta made it if it wasn't for you
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life and that's true
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When I was handlin the shit I had to do
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It was all for you, from the door for you
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Speak through you, gettin paper on tour for you
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From the start, Thought was down by law for you
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Used to hit up every corner store wall for you
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We ripped shit, and kept it hardcore for you
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I remember late nights, steady rockin the mic
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
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So tell the people like that y'all (that y'all)
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And it sounds so nice
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
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We bout to take it to the top..
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[Common]
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Yo, yo I was speakin, to my guy 'Riq and
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How she was desperately seekin to Organize in a Konfusion
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Usin, no protection, told H.E.R. on _Resurrection_
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Caught in the Hype Williams, and lost H.E.R. direction
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Gettin eight/ate in sections where I wouldn't eat H.E.R.
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An under the counter love, so _Silent_-ly I _Treat_ H.E.R.
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Her Daddy'll beat H.E.R., eyes all Puff-ed
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In the mix on tape, niggaz had her in the buff
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When we touch, it was more than just a fuck
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The Police, in her I found peace (like who?)
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Like Malcolm in the East
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Seen H.E.R. on the streets of New York, trickin off
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Tried to make a hit with H.E.R. but my dick went soft
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Movin weight, losin weight, not picky - with who she choose to date
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To confuse the hate, with her struggle I relate
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Close to thirty, most of the niggaz she know is dirty
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Havin more babies than Lauryn, she started showin early
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As of late I realized, that this is H.E.R. fate
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Or destiny that brings the best of me
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It's like God is testin me
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In _Retrospect_ I see she brought _Life_ and death to me
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Peace to us collectively, live and direct when we perform
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It's just coffee shop chicks and white dudes
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Over H.E.R. I got into it with that nigga Ice Cube
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Now the fight moved to in life, makin the right moves
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Besides God and family, you my life's jewel
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Like that y'all
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Hip-Hop.. [echoes]
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[whispered]
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Take it to the top, what? Hip-Hop (hip-hip)
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To the top, hip-hop (hip-hop) check it out
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[Black Thought - louder]
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It's like, word up, and it sounds nice
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life, what?
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Bout to take you to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the, yo
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Fifth Dynamite, and it sounds so nice
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
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I'm bout to take you to the top love
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Hip-Hop, word up, to the top (to the top)
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Hip-Hop, check it out
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It's like that, what? And it sounds alright
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Hey, cause you the love of my life
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I'm bout to take you to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the, check it out
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What? Yeah, and it sounds so nice
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Hip-Hop, you the love of my life
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Bout to take you to the top love
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Hip-Hop (hip-hop) to the top (to the top) hip-hop (hip-hop)
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Fifth Dynamite, and it sounds alright
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Hey, cause you the love of my life
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I'm bout to take you to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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To the to the to the to the
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