Lupe Fiasco Feat. Nikki Jean - Hip Hop Saved My Life lyrics
rate meDedicate, dedicate<br />
This one right here, goes out<br />
To my homie with the drink, na mean<br />
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He said, “I write what I see<br />
Write to make it right, don't like where I beâ€<br />
I'd like to make it light the sights on TV<br />
Quite the great life, so nice and easy<br />
<br />
See, now you can still die from that<br />
But it's better than not being alive from straps<br />
Agree, a Mead notebook and a bic that click<br />
When it's pushed in a whack ass beat<br />
<br />
That's a track that's weak, that he got last week<br />
'Cause everybody in the store's like that's that heat<br />
A bass heavy medley, with a sample from the 70's<br />
With a screwed up hook that went, 'Stack That Cheese'<br />
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Somethin', somethin', somethin', 'Stack That Cheese'<br />
Mother, sister, cousin, 'Stack That Cheese'<br />
He couldn't think of nothin', 'Stack That Cheese'<br />
He turns down the beat, writer's block impedes<br />
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Cryin' from the next room, a baby in need<br />
Of some Pampers and some food and place to sleep<br />
That, plus a black Cadillac on D's<br />
Is what keep 'em on track to be a great Emcee, yea<br />
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One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me<br />
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life<br />
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Reps North side so he rocks them braids<br />
Eleven-hundred friends on his MySpace page<br />
Stack That Cheese got seven hundred plays<br />
Producer made him take it down, said he had to pay<br />
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Open mic champ two weeks in a row<br />
Ex-D Boy with a B-Boy flow<br />
Glow like Leroy, you should see boy go<br />
Got a daddy servin' life and a brother on the row<br />
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Best homie in the grave, tatted up while in the cage<br />
Minute Maid, got his momma workin' like a slave<br />
Down baby momma, who he really had to honor<br />
'Cause she was his biggest fan, even let him use her Honda<br />
<br />
To drive up to Dallas went to open up for amateurs<br />
Let him keep a debit card, so he could put gas in it<br />
Told her when he get on he gon' take her to the galleria<br />
Buy everythin' but the mannequins, ya dig<br />
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One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me<br />
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life<br />
<br />
His man called said, “Ya time might be nowâ€<br />
They played your freestyle over “Wipe Me Downâ€<br />
They played it two times say it might be crowned<br />
As the best thing out the H-Town in a while<br />
<br />
He picked up his son with a great big smile<br />
Rapped every single word to the new born child<br />
Then he put him down and went back to the kitchen<br />
And put on another beat and got back to the mission of<br />
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Get his momma out the hood, put her somewhere in the woods<br />
Keep his lady lookin' good, have her rollin' like she should<br />
Show his homies there's a way, other than that flippin' ya<br />
Bail his homie outta jail, put a lawyer on his case<br />
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Throw a concert for the school, show the shoulders that it's cool<br />
Throw some candy on the Caddy, chuck the deuce and act a fool<br />
Man it feels good when it happens like that<br />
Two days from goin' back to sellin' crack, yes sir<br />
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One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me<br />
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life<br />
<br />
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved me<br />
One you never heard of I, push it hard to further the<br />
Grind I feel like murder but hip-hop you saved my life<br />
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Hip-hop, you saved my life<br />
Hip-hop, you saved my life<br />
Hip-hop, you saved my life
