Yo do me a favor, accidentally step on your white sun glassesnWe don't wear those over here this is hip hop (that's right)nThis is Carhartt jackets, Timberland boots, unlacednThis is Champion hoodies, chicken wings and french friesnR-I-P pieces on the handball court, this is us still fightin' police brutalitynThis is hip hopnnI ain't tryin' to bring New York backnI'm just a breath of fresh air, that good old New York rapnSlick talk to the track, come on who brought that to the gamenGraffiti all on the train, get up your name I don't feel how I used to feelnI'm in my 20s so a new Nas joint used to give me the chillsnIn the barber shop tryin' to cop a new hot tapenThem Rob Lowes is crazy the doo wop's greatest hip hop(hip hop)nAnd yes I'm a fan first if you from the south, finger snap till your hands hurtnIf you from the west Ws in the air, if you from the east coast act like you from herenThe good old two step, the classic head nodnThe thirsty iced grill, who wants to get robbed?nThat was the energy in the club, on the realnThat was the energy that I love, aww mannnThis is hip hop, hands up if you forever a fan of hip hopnI wake up hip hop, go to sleep hip hopnDream about hip hop, 'cause I am hip hop, aww mannThis is hip hop, hands up if you forever a fan of hip hopnI wake up hip hop, go to sleep hip hopnDream about hip hop, 'cause I am hip hopnnI ain't tryin' make you dance I just rip beats but thensoul in my voice, give you quick feetnI don't know what it's like to not dig deepnWhen I'm holding this mic I don't just speak, pipsqueaknThe tides come in and the earth shakesntwo hundred mile an hour winds I'm your worst fate, birthdatenJuly 6th 1980 how can your age even matter when you rhyme this crazy, aww mannI gotta thank the lord 'cause with this pen in my handnI don't think that hard it just happensnWrist action classic in the makin'nI kick back and just laugh I'm happy I'm amazingnLook at me gaze into my eyes, see the poverty?nNow understand why me and this music just gotta be?nIt's something that's inside of me and I can't shake itnSo I embrace it, and let y'all taste it, aww mannnThis is hip hop, hands up if you forever a fan of hip hopnI wake up hip hop, go to sleep hip hopnDream about hip hop, 'cause I am hip hop, aww mannThis is hip hop, hands up if you forever a fan of hip hopnI wake up hip hop, go to sleep hip hopnDream about hip hop, 'cause I am hip hopnnSomethin' happen to may body when that track smokin'nY'all swim more wilder than me, I be backstrokin'nI'm the best and my fans'll second that notionnI'll be the last man standing with my back brokennCrack open a couple of fortys Celebrate MijonMy competition, man they squared in the H3nI run cricles around them like a skate keynAnd turn your little buzz into Yo, whatever happened..?nSo don't play B I ain't talking shitnI just got a awful gift, that'll make your office doors just stiffnThey won't open so no braggin' and no boastin' while I'm hungrynMatter fact, don't do that when I got a lot of moneynYup, I'm feelin' myself, that sound rightnYou gotta step in that ring like, listen I'll pound MikenYou gotta step on that court like, I could hold down MikenThe way I step on that stage and have the whole crowd like, aww mannnThis is hip hop, hands up if you forever a fan of hip hopnI wake up hip hop, go to sleep hip hopnDream about hip hop, 'cause I am hip hop, aww mannThis is hip hop, hands up if you forever a fan of hip hopnI wake up hip hop, go to sleep hip hopnDream about hip hop, 'cause I am hip hop