Hip Hop Is Dead (As Made Famous By Nas)-Original Cartel

[ti:Hip Hop Is Dead (As Made Famous By Nas)] [ar:Various Artists] [al:Vocal Hip Hop Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hip Hop Is Dead (As Made Famous By Nas) - Original Cartel [00:12.33]"Hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead" [00:14.08] [00:15.14]"Hip--hip hop" "hip hop" "is dead" [00:18.20] [00:19.39]"Hip--hip hop" "hip--hip hop" "is dead" [00:22.60] [00:23.47]"Hip--hip hop" "hip hop" "hip hop" [00:27.25]If hip hop should die before I wake [00:29.00]I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK [00:30.71]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [00:33.08]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [00:35.08]Hip hop should die before I wake [00:37.02]I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK [00:39.26]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [00:41.27]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [00:42.84] [00:47.03]Hip hop just died this mornin' [00:48.28]And she's dead, she's dead [00:50.46] [00:51.96]Yeah, niggaz smoke, laugh, party, and die in the same corner [00:54.65]Get cash, live fast, body their man's mama [00:56.59]Rich a** niggaz is ridin' with three llamas [00:58.80]Revenge in their eyes, Hennesy and the ganja [01:00.92]Word to the wise with villain state of minds [01:03.11]Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind [01:05.17]Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind [01:07.36](Grindin', hittin' Brazilian dimes from behind) [01:09.44]Whenever, if ever, I roll up, it's sown up [01:11.69]Any ghetto will tell ya Nas helped grow us up [01:13.95]My face once graced promotional Sony trucks [01:15.89]Hundred million in billin', I helped build 'em up [01:18.14]Gave my ni**a my right, I could have gave left [01:20.51]So like my girl Foxy, a ni**a went Def [01:22.89]So ni**a, who's your top ten? [01:24.67]Is it MC Shan? Is it MC Ren? [01:26.98]If hip hop should die before I wake [01:28.84]I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK [01:31.03]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [01:33.14] [01:33.68]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [01:35.49]Hip hop should die before I wake [01:37.36]I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK [01:39.73]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [01:41.75]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [01:43.71] [01:44.26]Hip hop just died this mornin' [01:47.45] [01:48.26]And she's dead, she's dead [01:50.89] [01:53.27]The bigger the cap, the bigger the peelin' [01:55.08]Come through, something ill, missin' the ceilin' [01:56.95]What influenced my raps? Stick ups and killings [01:59.24]Kidnappings, project buildings, drug dealings [02:01.68]Criticize that, why is that? [02:03.38]Cuz Nas rap is compared to legitimized crap [02:05.75]Cuz we love to talk on a** we gettin' [02:08.00]Most intellectuals will only half listen [02:10.06]So you can't blame jazz musicians [02:12.38]Or David Stern with his NBA fashion issues [02:14.39]Oh I they like me--in my white tee [02:16.76]You can't ice me, we here for life B [02:19.08]On my second marriage, hip hop's my first wifey [02:21.33]And for that we not takin' it lightly [02:23.33]If hip hop should die we die together [02:25.20]Bodies in the morgue lie together [02:26.83]All together now [02:27.70]If hip hop should die before I wake [02:29.58]I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK [02:31.83]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [02:34.00]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [02:36.00]Hip hop should die before I wake [02:37.94]I'll put an extended clip inside of my AK [02:40.38]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [02:42.38]Roll to every station, murder the DJ [02:44.62]Hip hop just died this mornin' [02:47.62] [02:50.25]Hip hop just died this mornin' [02:52.62] [02:54.56]Hip hop just died this mornin' [02:56.88] [02:57.75]And she's dead, she's dead [02:59.94] [03:07.19][crowd chanting "Hip hop!" becomes beat] [03:09.25] [03:11.19]Everybody sound the same, commercialize the game [03:13.13]Reminiscin' when it wasn't all business [03:14.77]If it got where it started [03:16.64]So we all gather here for the dearly departed [03:19.70]Hip hopper since a toddler [03:21.20]One homeboy became a man then a mobster [03:23.72]If the guys let me get my last swig of Vodka [03:26.16]R.I.P., we'll donate your lungs to a rasta [03:28.16]Went from turntables to mp3s [03:29.92]From "Beat Street" to commercials on Mickey D's [03:32.23]From gold cables to Jacobs [03:34.30]From plain facials to Botox and face lifts [03:36.61]I'm lookin' over my shoulder [03:38.05]It's about eighty niggaz from my hood that showed up [03:40.89]And they came to show love [03:42.95]Sold out concert and the doors are closed shut