[Hook] Hip Hop Hip Hop Hip Hop Hip Hop So much talk about Hip Hop Everybody talks about Hip Hop It's like we can't live without Hip Hop Hip Hop Hip Hop Hip Hop [Verse 1] I heard Hip Hop was dead, nobody told me She was just a Kid in like 1983 What? She had a heartattack or something She's still alive my heart still pumping She's still alive if your heart still pumping I don't know what you heard, my speakers still bumping In the club I'm still jumping Love is love It's like the whole world still fronting They know what we creating The first time I heard PE I was elated Chuck D exposed all the crimes perpetraded Against us, now we ask backwards It's us against us (Huh) If we don't get it together man, this I could bet We gonna drown like DiCaprio with some hoe we just met And then we gonna be upset, like What happened? There probably won't leave and be no black people rapping Imagine five hundret tousand Eminems And one 50 Cent still try to pay the rent And no more Russell to show us to hustle No more Hover it's over No more Snoop and Dre We just fade away I don't know about you but I ain't ready for the grave today So DJ one two mic check let the music play And you dont stop [Hook] I've seen Beans do time behind Hip Hop And that n***a Shyne, he still doing time behind Hip Hop How the hell you gonna say you don't crime for Hip Hop n***as get shot, go to jail, it's on the line for Hip Hop Biggie and Pac both died for Hip Hop So how the f** you NOT go rob for Hip Hop I choose my side I don't Flip Fliop n***a I'm supposed to get hot, this is Hip Hop Got a n***a frozen with it's arm, let's watch And only Lord knows why a n***a is this hot That's the way the story goes till all this sh** stops You better switch places switch faces Switch spots switch locks In this case if it gets outrages The switch blade will leave stitchmarks on your faces Make sure I put a scar in visible places So your memory can not erase this Face this I am Hip Hop and you're not Face this I am what you can't stop I'm [Hook] [Outro] This is deticated to the fallen Soldiers Jam Master Jay Big Pun Scott la Rock Keith Cowboy Biggie Smalls 2Pac Shakur Easy E Pimp C Big L JD Freaky Tah The Ol' dirty ba*tard Proof MC Trouble Camoflauge Soulja Slim Mausberg [?] and Sugar Shaft of X Clan Big Stretch Hood Poetic Aaliyah Left Eye Mercury and T.C.D. of the Force MDs Justoe My man 17 from the Cout trough My man Roler from Zone 7 Israel Ramirez Buffy and Kool Rock-Ski from the Fat Boys Scientific from Boston Whiz Kid Lil Quick Ball C Dandy the Graffiti King And the Godfather of the Soul himself Mr James Brown That's Hip Hop