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Ludacris - I Do It For Hip Hop (Co-Starring Nas and Jay-Z) |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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Yeah, I do it for hip-hop |
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Now this is what they call poetry in motion |
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My soul bleeds on the paper, heart screams with emotion |
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This my daily devotion, that verses stay deeper than the ocean |
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So hip-hop you owe me a promotion |
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Yeah, I do a little boastin' and braggin' |
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What's all the commotion and naggin' about |
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'Cause I'm still the champ in the south |
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'Cause rappers get in the booth and I keep draggin' them out |
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Where they fired and these pink slips I keep handin' them out |
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'Cause this is Theater of Mind, consider it a sign |
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Of what's to come next, my money's just fine |
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Bank filled with dump checks |
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Terrorist threat flow, proceed to drop (bombs) like Mr. Funk Flex |
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But I don't do it for the money, I do it from the heart |
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I'll do it with the beatbox, I did it from the start |
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I'll do it for the DJs, I'll do it for the charts |
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The Van Gogh flow, Luda do it 'cause it's art |
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I do it for the fans, I do it on command |
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I do it for the front row, I do it for the stands |
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I spit it for the hood, I do it for the block |
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And since nine years old, I did it for hip-hop |
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So, I don't do for the chains and the fancy drops |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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They say I'm so low key, I'm socially awkward |
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Only those that really know me are the ones that I talk with |
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They smile in the light, hate in the dark, |
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You call it beef, to me it's's just a fuckin' walk in the park |
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Because you are who you are when nobody is looking |
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That's who you are so when the cash and cars is gone, |
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the day after tomorrow |
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Don't be askin' to borrow, ski maskin' it hard, |
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like the way you rap in your bars |
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I could ride on you and whoever, |
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devise new endeavors I'm as live as hive full of predators |
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Twenty thousands different species of bees |
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Some half poisonous sting, some just pollinating their leafs |
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It's just like rap, some will buzz some will attack, |
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Compromising their own life in fact |
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Sixteen years since my first sixteen, pardon the rest of my niggas |
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But I'm the best whoever did it |
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I don't do for the cars and the fancy drops |
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Uh, I do it for hip-hop |
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Yeah, I do it for hip-hop, uh |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks |
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Why we do it kid, I do it for hip-hop |
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Yeah, I do it for hip-hop, uh |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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Hip-hop, started out in the park |
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We used to do it to avoid the Narcs |
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I used to do it so the homeboy Clark can get the fuck |
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Off my back while I knocked off these packs |
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I used to rap to impress my friends |
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The past of time when I was gettin' it in |
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Just so happens I'm so illegal with the pen, they |
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Ain't want me to do anything illegal again |
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I lost a lot of dawgs to these streets |
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I got Grammy awards on these beats |
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Thank God for Cool Herc |
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Without this shit I probably would've got murked |
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Shout outs to Grandmaster Flash and the cash |
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And even Jaz bum ass |
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Hip hop helped me wash me ass |
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These other rappers couldn't wash my socks |
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That's why I took the number one slot |
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The realest shit in rap comes from my voice box |
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Lord knows when I was on my clock |
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I probably never would've stopped |
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Thank God for hip-hop |
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I don't do for the cars and the fancy drops |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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And I don't do for the chains and the flashin' rocks |
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Come on, I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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I do it for hip-hop |
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