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[00:02.34]artist: nas
[00:02.70]album:  hip hop is dead 12"
[00:02.98]song:   hip hop is dead (original version)
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[00:11.18]"hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead"
[00:15.05]"hip--hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead"
[00:19.34]"hip--hip hop" "hip--hip hop" "is dead"
[00:24.03]"hip--hip hop" "hip hop" "hip hop"
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[00:26.81]if hip hop should die before i wake
[00:28.32]i’ll put an extended clip inside of my ak
[00:30.89]roll to every station, murder the dj
[00:33.00]roll to every station, murder the dj
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[00:45.64]hip hop just died this mornin’
[00:47.80]and she’s dead, she’s dead
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[00:51.77]yeah, niggaz smoke, laugh, party, and die in the same corner
[00:54.53]get cash, live fast, body their man’s mama
[00:56.58]rich ass niggaz is ridin’ with three llamas
[00:58.81]revenge in their eyes, hennesy and the ganja
[01:00.99]word to the wise with villain state of minds
[01:03.04]grindin’, hittin’ brazilian dimes from behind
[01:05.26]grindin’, hittin’ brazilian dimes from behind
[01:07.43](grindin’, hittin’ brazilian dimes from behind)
[01:09.54]whenever, if ever, i roll up, it’s sown up
[01:11.63]any ghetto will tell ya nas helped grow us up
[01:13.80]my face once graced promotional sony trucks
[01:15.86]hundred million in billin’, i helped build ’em up
[01:18.17]gave my nigga my right, i could have gave left
[01:20.29]so like my girl foxy, a nigga went def
[01:22.44]so nigga, who’s your top ten?
[01:24.69]is it mc shan? is it mc ren?
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[01:45.21]hip hop just died this mornin’
[01:48.50]and she’s dead, she’s dead
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[01:53.14]the bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin’
[01:54.95]come through, something ill, missin’ the ceilin’
[01:57.24]what influenced my raps? stick ups and killings
[01:59.24]kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings
[02:01.50]criticize that, why is that?
[02:03.25]cuz nas rap is compared to legitimized crap
[02:05.94]cuz we love to talk on ass we gettin’
[02:08.08]most intellectuals will only half listen
[02:10.51]so you can’t blame jazz musicians
[02:12.24]or david stern with his nba fashion issues
[02:14.66]oh i they like me--in my white tee
[02:16.96]you can’t ice me, we here for life b
[02:19.01]on my second marriage, hip hop’s my first wifey
[02:21.56]and for that we not takin’ it lightly
[02:23.26]if hip hop should die we die together
[02:25.18]bodies in the morgue lie together
[02:26.29]all together now
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[02:46.07]hip hop just died this mornin’
[02:49.69]hip hop just died this mornin’
[02:53.91]hip hop just died this mornin’
[02:57.38]and she’s dead, she’s dead
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[03:02.37]{*crowd chanting "hip hop!" becomes beat*}
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[03:10.92]everybody sound the same, commercialize the game
[03:13.23]reminiscin’ when it wasn’t all business
[03:15.52]if it got where it started
[03:17.03]so we all gather here for the dearly departed
[03:19.68]hip hopper since a toddler
[03:21.48]one homeboy became a man then a mobster
[03:23.47]if the guys let me get my last swig of vodka
[03:25.96], we’ll donate your lungs to a rasta
[03:28.13]went from turntables to mp3s
[03:30.12]from "beat street" to commercials on mickey d’s
[03:32.62]from gold cables to jacobs
[03:34.60]from plain facials to botox and face lifts
[03:37.08]i’m lookin’ over my shoulder
[03:38.76]it’s about eighty niggaz from my hood that showed up
[03:41.17]and they came to show love
[03:43.26]sold out concert and the doors are closed shut
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