[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [00:00.00]"Hip Hop is Dead"(Ft.will.i.am) [00:09.34]Hip hop Hip hop (Ugh!) [00:12.88]Is dead (Had to flip this track again, y'all!) [00:14.34]Hip, hip hop Hip hop (Ugh!) Is dead [00:18.89]Hip, hip hop (Ugh!) [00:20.37]Hip, hip hop is dead (NYC! Dirty South!) [00:23.39]Hip, hip hop (West Coast!) [00:24.69]Hip hop (Midwest!) [00:25.34]Hip hop (Let's go!) [00:25.90]If hip hop should die before I wake [00:27.75]I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day [00:30.11]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [00:32.23]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [00:34.29]If hip hop should die before I wake [00:36.25]I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day [00:38.66]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [00:40.77]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [00:44.10](Hip hop just died this morning [00:47.16]And she's dead, she's dead) [00:50.88]Yeah, people smoke, chill, party, and die in the same corner [00:53.99]Get cash, live fast, body their man's mama [00:56.15]Quick fast, trigger fingers on the llama [00:58.31]Revenge in their eyes, Hennessy and the ganja [01:00.41]Word to the wise with villain state of minds [01:02.52]Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind [01:04.64]Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind [01:06.85](Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind) [01:08.96]Whenever, if ever, I roll up, it's sown up [01:11.16]Any ghetto will tell ya' "Nas helped grow us up" [01:13.33]My face once graced promotional Sony trucks [01:15.48]Hundred million and billin', I helped blow 'em up [01:17.64]Gave my man my right, I could have went left [01:19.84]So like my girl Foxy, the kid went deaf [01:21.85]So people, who's your top ten? [01:24.07]Is it MC Shan? Is it MC Ren? [01:26.12]If hip hop should die before I wake [01:28.28]I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day [01:30.53]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [01:32.55]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [01:34.86]If hip hop should die before I wake [01:36.86]I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day [01:39.02]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [01:41.33]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [01:43.38](Hip hop just died this morning [01:47.60]And she's dead, she's dead) [01:51.89]The bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin' [01:54.40]Come through, something ill, missing' the ceilin' [01:56.96]What influenced my raps? Stick-ups and killings [01:58.72]Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings [02:01.08]Criticize that, why is that? [02:02.74]Cause Nas rap is compared to legitimized crap [02:05.20]Cause we love to talk on nasty chickens [02:07.36]Most intellectuals will only half listen [02:09.62]So you can't blame jazz musicians [02:11.68]Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues [02:13.89]Oh, I think they like me, in my white tee [02:16.30]You can't ice me, we here for life, B [02:18.47]On my second marriage, hip hop's my first wifey [02:20.22]And for that, we not taking it lightly [02:22.63]If hip hop should die, we die together [02:24.54]Bodies in the morgue lie together [02:26.14]All together now [02:26.85]If hip hop should die before I wake [02:28.71]I'll put an extended clip and body 'em all day [02:30.97]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [02:33.23]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [02:35.23]If hip hop should die before I wake [02:37.39]I'll load an extended clip and body 'em all day [02:39.60]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [02:42.15]Roll to every station, wreck the DJ [02:45.32](Hip hop just died this morning [02:57.22]And she's dead, she's dead) [03:09.13]Everybody sound the same, commercialize the game [03:12.80]Reminiscing when it wasn't all business [03:14.66]It forgot where it started [03:16.00]So we all gather here for the dearly departed [03:18.52]Hip-hopper since a toddler [03:20.88]One homeboy became a man, then a mobster [03:23.19]If it dies, let me get my last swig of Vodka [03:25.14]R.I.P., we'll donate your lungs to a rasta [03:27.56]Went from turntables to MP3's [03:29.51]From "Beat Street"to commercials on Mickey D's [03:31.82]From gold cables to Jacobs [03:33.83]From plain facials to Botox and face lifts [03:35.94]I'm looking' over my shoulder [03:37.80]It's about eighty people from my hood that showed up [03:40.35]And they came to show love [03:42.27]Sold out concert and the doors are closed shut [03:44.98]by og