[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:02.13]Artist: Nas f/ Chrisette Michele [00:02.37]Album: Hip Hop is Dead [00:02.57]Song: Hope [00:02.74] [00:04.91]Hip-Hop - it will never die [00:05.56]Hip-Hop - Hip-Hop will never, never die [00:09.85] [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... [01:35.27] [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 [01:39.77] [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 [02:27.57] [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 [02:40.85] [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