Hip hop

Hip hop

Is dead



(Had to flip this track again, y'all)

Hip, hip hop

Hip hop

Is dead



Hip, hip hop

Hip, hip hop

Is dead



(NYC, Dirty South)

Hip, hip hop

(West Coast)

Hip hop

(Midwest)

Hip hop

(Let's go)



If hip hop should die before I wake

I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ



If hip hop should die before I wake

I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ



Hip hop just died this mornin'

And she's dead, she's dead



Yeah, people smoke, chill, party, and die in the same corner

Get cash, live fast, body their man's mama

Quick fast, trigger fingers, on the llama

Revenge in their eyes, Hennessy and the ganja



Word to the wise with villain state of minds

Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind

Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind

Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind



Whenever, if ever, I roll up, it's sown up

Any ghetto will tell ya', Nas helped grow us up

My face once graced promotional Sony trucks

Hundred million and billin', I helped blow them up



Gave my man my right, I could have went left

So like my girl Foxy, the kid went Def

So people, who's the top ten?

Is it MC Shan? Is it MC Ren?



If hip hop should die before I wake

I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ



If hip hop should die before I wake

I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ



Hip hop just died this mornin'

And she's dead, she's dead



The bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin'

Come through, something ill, missin' the ceilin'

What influenced my raps? Stick-ups and killings

Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings



Criticize that, why is that?

'Cuz Nas' rap is compared to legitimized crap

'Cuz we love to talk on nasty chickens

Most intellectuals will only half listen



So you can't blame jazz musicians

Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues

Oh, I think they like me, in my white tee

You can't ice me, we here for life, B



On my second marriage, hip hop's my first wifey

And for that, we not takin' it lightly

If hip hop should die, we die together

Bodies in the morgue lie together

All together now!



If hip hop should die before I wake

I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ



If hip hop should die before I wake

I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ

Roll to every station, wreck the DJ



Hip hop just died this mornin'

Hip hop just died this mornin'

Hip hop just died this mornin'

And she's dead, she's dead



Everybody sound the same, commercialize the game

Reminiscin' when it wasn't all business

It forgot where it started

So we all gather here for the dearly departed



Hip-hopper since a toddler

One homeboy became a man, then a mobster

If it dies, let me get my last swig of Vodka

R.I.P., we'll donate your lungs to a rasta



Went from turntables to MP3's

From "Beat Street" to commercials on Mickey D's

From gold cables to Jacobs

From plain facials to Botox and face lifts



I'm lookin' over my shoulder

It's about eighty people from my hood that showed up

And they came to show love

Sold out concert and the doors are closed shut