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I Am Hip Hop Lyrics

I am hip hop

March with me now, heads March with me now
We are going, going higher and higher.

Verse 1

I used to think hip hop is what I do/ hip hop is what I"m into/ hip hop is how

I come thru on top of instrumentals/ I used to think it"s what I jot with a pencil

or how best i can talk about what I been through/ The metaphors I like/ set of

thought I write/ when i get applause on mics/ I was never sure I was like/ I sure

this hip hop has a better cause in spite/ the little misconceptions said the voice

inside/ it can"t based on the language I rap in/ or that little pretentious twang

in accent/ I think those are just irrelevant semantics/ I think hip hop ladies and

Gentlemen are had picked/ it"s not whether you rap or write/ whether you wack

or tight/ hip hop is what you have inside/ and it"s not my job to be here behind

this mic/ it"s not my hobby not my career this is my life/

Verse 2

I used to think that hip hop is all about hits, hooks and mics/ freestyles, battles

scripts, books the like/ how difficult it is to spit and what it took to write/ till

I learned hip hop is an outlook on life/ I used to think it was all about the
women in vids/ being driven in wips/ getting rich living in cribs/ getting "em chips/

occasionally spitting em hits/ turns out, for a minute I"ve had it twisted a bit/

okay a lot, I had it twisted indeed/ I always pictured it be/ picking the words

out of a dictionary/ then convincing the streets to listen to this fiction I speak/

I was a victim of the television imagery/ I would wear a flag, a skull cap, and

on top a doo rag/ fubu cap and 2 sweat bands to match/ jeans hanging at the

thighs shorts sticking thought that/ walking cliché, hip hop"s got nothing to do

with that/ in fact..

Verse 3

Before I realized hip hop was all of us/ I used to think hip hop was in the States

and the rest of us are followers/ I was quite alarmed to discover how wrong I
was/ and quite relieved to discover that it belongs to all of us/ hip hop is

independent minds, thinkers/ you don"t have to write scriptures/ just subscribe

to the principles/ it"s not just the elements, the heads and listeners/ without us

there"s no hip hop, hip hop live in us/ I used to think that hip hop is anything

with ebonyx/ that has an explicit lyrics sticker on it/ I used to think that it was

songs with the strongest language that were dishonest/ a foreign c**ture that we

adopted/ I used to think that I could hear it/ when I cranked up the sound and

when I turned it down then it got clearer/ and when I looked through the

window I"d swear I was near it/ 'hold on' it"s not a window, I"m looking in the

mirror/

Hook

I am Hip hop, you are hip hop

We"re soldiers in the true art of hip hop

and you"ve gotta give props, it"s who you are

and not what you do that is hip hop.
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Intro 1st 2nd 3rd I Am Hip Hop Further, Longer, Stronger From Across the Room Tell Me, Tell Me Keep Your Eyes Open Street Music Nothin' On Me Scoopman (interlude) Truth Is Revealing Say Something Proverbs The Journey Stop Think Raise 'Em Up
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