[Featuring Common]

What?

Hip-Hop y'all, to the top y'all

Hip-Hop check it out

It's like that, and it sounds so nice

Hip-Hop, you the love of my life

We bout to take it to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the

To the to the to the to the check it out

Yo, what? And it sounds so nice

Hip-Hop, you the love of my life

I'm bout to take it to the top, what?

Hip-Hop (hip-hop love)

To the top (to the top) hip-hop, check it out

It's like, word up, and it sounds so nice

Hip-Hop, you the love of my life (of my life)

[Black Thought]

The anticipation arose as time froze

I stared off the stage with my eyes closed and dove

into the deep cosmos

The impact pushed back, the first five rows

But before the raw live shows

I remember I'se a little snot-nosed

Rockin Gazelle, goggles and Izod clothes

Learnin the ropes of ghetto survival

Peepin out the situation I had to slide through

Had to watch my back my front plus my sides too

When it came to gettin mine I ain't tryin, to argue

Sometimes I wouldn'ta made it if it wasn't for you

Hip-Hop, you the love of my life and that's true

When I was handlin the shit I had to do

It was all for you, from the door for you

Speak through you, gettin paper on tour for you

From the start, Thought was down by law for you

Used to hit up every corner store wall for you

We ripped shit, and kept it hardcore for you

I remember late nights, steady rockin the mic

Hip-Hop, you the love of my life

So tell the people like that y'all (that y'all)

And it sounds so nice